LibreOffice Conference 2022

LibOCon 2022 Call for Participation

The Document Foundation invites all members and contributors to submit talks, lectures and workshops for this year’s conference. The conference will be a hybrid event, both remote and in presence in Milan, Italy.

The event is scheduled for September, from September 28 (community day) to October 1st. Whether you are a seasoned presenter or have never spoken in public before, if you have something interesting to share about LibreOffice, the Document Liberation Project or the Open Document Format, we want to hear from you!

Proposals should be filed by July 15, 2022, in order to guarantee that they will be considered for inclusion in the conference program.

The conference program will be based on the following tracks:

a) Development, APIs, Extensions, Future Technology
b) Quality Assurance
c) Localization, Documentation and Native Language Projects
d) Appealing Libreoffice: Ease of Use, Design and Accessibility
e) Open Document Format, Document Liberation and Interoperability
f) Advocating, Promoting, Marketing LibreOffice
g) Diversity and Inclusion, New Generation

Presentations, case studies, and technical talks will discuss a subject in depth and will last 30 minutes (including Q&A). Lightning talks will cover a specific topic and will last 5 minutes (including Q&A).

All sessions in Milan will be streamed live and recorded for download, but it will be possible to present from remote on Friday, September 30. Workshops will be possible only in presence, and should be agreed with organizers in order to schedule them in a specific room (which will be recorded but not streamed).

Please send a short description/bio of yourself as well as your talk/workshop proposal to https://events.documentfoundation.org/

Please check if you need a VISA to travel to Italy on this page (available in Arab, English, Russian and Chinese): https://vistoperitalia.esteri.it/home/

If you need a VISA, please get in touch with Italo Vignoli (italo@libreoffice.org) as soon as possible, to get an invitation letter.

If you cannot travel to Italy and prefer to present from remote, please add a note to your talk proposal, in order to allow organizers to schedule your talk on Friday (and organize a test session in advance).

If you do not agree to provide the data for the talk under the “Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License”, please explicitly state your terms. In order to make your presentation available on TDF YouTube channel, please do not submit talks containing copyrighted material (music, pictures, etc.).

If you want to give multiple talks, please send a separate proposal for each.

Thanks a lot for your participation!

This Call for Papers closed on 2022-07-31 18:53 (Europe/Rome).