Alain Romedenne
  • LibreOffice automation via scripting (BASIC, Python)
Andrei Mihai

Andrei Mihai is a passionate software developer and tech enthusiast at 1&1 Internet Development. He has spent over 16 years developing Java applications, microservices, DevOps pipelines and in the last years, Machine Learning tools.
Andrei is also very interested in Quantum Computing and finding real usecases for applying Quantum Technologies.

  • Chat with document using open source Large Language Model 🤖
Armin Le Grand

Armin Le Grand studied Computer Science at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. He started working on the Office-Project as early as 1997 by joining StarDivision, the company in Hamburg originally developing the code. He guided that code in the transitions to Free Open Source Software (AOO, LO) working for Companies SUN Microsystems, Oracle and IBM. He is now working on the LibreOffice Project as a freelancer. His main Interest Areas there are the Graphics Stack and related Areas.

  • MCGR - MultiColorGradients in LibreOffice
Attila Szűcs

Attila Szűcs is a Computer Engineer working for Collabora Productivity as a Consultant Software Engineer since 2022. LibreOffice contributor since 2020.

  • Zip64 support in LibreOffice
Balazs Varga

I am Balázs Varga and I am working on LibreOffice since 2017. My works mostly related to Calc, Chart improvements and some WebAssembly improvements. But I also worked on Writer improvements as well.

  • Improvements in Calc since last year, Accessibility improvements in Writer
Caolán McNamara

Long term contributor to LibreOffice, now working for Collabora Productivity.

  • Crashtesting, Fuzzing: 2023 report
Christian Lohmaier

Release Engineer and System Administrator for The Document Foundation, mostly known as cloph

  • Building LibreOffice with WSL2 (for Linux and Windows)
Colomban Wendling

Long-term Free Software enthusiast and hobby developer, I am now working at Hypra, focusing on accessibility of the GNU/Linux desktops.

My involvement with LibreOffice is focused on accessibility as well, and started with fixing a few bugs and implementing a few features, and is now focused on accessibility testing.

  • Accessibility testing in LibreOffice
DaeHyun Sung

I'm LibreOffice Korean Team leader, contributor, and translator. also, I'm GNOME & KDE Korean Contributor and GNOME Korean Translator. I contributed some FLOSS, such as, GNU libunistring, LibreOffice, KDE, GNOME. Also, I'm TDF Membership and GNOME Foundation Member in Korea and openSUSE Asia Organization Korean member. I'm interested in Open Source related things (Development, Translation, Contribution, Communities), East Asian Languages (such as Korean dialects, Japanese, Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, etc), East Asian cultural sphere. My hobby is learning Languages such as English, Japanese (日本語), Mandarin Chinese (華語, 漢語 / 汉语), etc.

  • LibreOffice's current status and community in South Korea
Eyal Rozenberg

Software Developer and researcher on occasion (GPU programming, medical scanner image reconstruction, Analytic DBMS acceleration) - but not working on LO code.

Key active user in LO's RTL, Hebrew language communities, active user in Arabic language community. Avid bug filer.

Somewhat of a C++ aficionado, with experience in CUDA, OpenCL, Javascript and bash.

  • LibreOffice as a PDF editor
Franklin Weng

President, Software Liberty Association Taiwan

  • Introducing module schemes into online solution
Gabor Kelemen

A longtime free software activist, currently QA engineer at allotropia GmBH and deputy member of the TDF board of directors.

  • State of interoperability 2023 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Gabriele Ponzo

An early adopter from the StarOffice days, he joined Progetto Linguistico Italiano OpenOffice during the 2009 Conference in Orvieto, and has been part of OpenOffice.org community until LibreOffice was born. Writing technical manuals, training and giving support are his most common activities and he’s been working on LibreUmbria and LibreDifesa projects as a teacher.

He is a founder of LibreItalia, where he’s also in the Board of Directors. His contributions are mostly in the Membership Committee (from 2014 on), speaking at conferences, some translations, and user support on the Italian and international mailing lists, and other community channels like Telegram. Certified Trainer and Migration Expert from February 2015.

  • Writer VS Word: a professional and deep usage comparison
Gökay ŞATIR

Has been working on LibreOffice and Collabora Online projects for more than 3 years by now.

  • View based accelerator configuration manager.
Heiko Tietze
  • LibreOffice core design (C++)
Henry Castro

GNU/Linux, Collabora Online, LibreOffice developer since 2015

  • Importing Excel conditional format
Hossein Nourikhah

Hossein Nourikhah is the Developer Community Architect at the Document Foundation (TDF). Hossein is a developer, former university lecturer and FOSS advocate. He has a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in Information Technology, and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Software).

  • Effective communication in open source/free software projects
  • LibreOffice core development (C++)
  • Office software, and the open source/free software development model
  • LibreOffice SDK development (Java, Python)
  • Software localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n)
  • Building LibreOffice from source code
  • LibreOffice SDK Examples in Multiple Programming Languages
Irina Bulciu

Irina graduated Computer Science in Polytechnics University of Bucharest in 2007 and started her career in the last year of University as a .NET developer. Then her path moved to Java developer, team lead, delivery manager and now to head of development in 1&1 Internet Development. As head of development in 1&1 Internet Development she leads a team of 9 developers and they are building 3 of the products from the portfolio of the portals (mail.com, gmx.com, gmx.de, web.de) that our company is managing.
Irina is involved in the Online Office product development where her team is integrating Libre Office and Collabora Online into the web.de / gmx.de / gmx.com / mail.com portals.

  • Chat with document using open source Large Language Model 🤖
Italo Vignoli
  • Opening Hug Time
  • Community Workshop
  • Closing Warm Up
Italo Vignoli

Italo Vignoli is a founding member of The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice
project, the Chairman Emeritus of Associazione LibreItalia, an Ambassador of Software
Heritage, and a proud member of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). He is a past
board member of Open Source Initiative (OSI).

  • Sponsor Keynote 2
  • Update of LibreOffice marketing strategy
  • Opening Session
  • Communicating about Security
  • Presentation of 1&1 Internet Development
  • Sponsor Keynote 1
  • Closing Session
  • Welcome & Logistics
Italo Vignoli
  • Q&A Session
Jaume Pujantell

I'm from Spain. I graduated in mathematics and computer science and have been a C++ and Javascript developer for several years. I've been working with LibreOffice at Collabora since March 2023.

  • PDF handling in LibreOffice
Justin Luth

Justin began fixing interoperability LibreOffice bugs in 2014 as his small office prepared to migrate from end-of-life Office 2003 to LibreOffice. A standardized deployment configured by extensions was a key contributor to the successful rollout.

Justin now works half time for Collabora Productivity.

  • Using configuration extensions to automatic preferred defaults
  • Keyboard navigation in forms / VBA macros managing forms
  • Avoiding regressions by hunting in QA unit tests
László Németh

Hungarian free software activist and programmer. Contributor of LibreOffice code base since 2002, certified LibreOffice developer since 2014. Lead developer, mentor and consultant of free software projects, including LibreOffice migration projects of public administration of Hungary. LibreOffice software engineer at Collabora Productivity, Cambridge, UK between 2014–2017, and full-time LibreOffice developer since 2018. Author of Hunspell spell checker, Lightproof grammar checker, LibreLogo and several other improvements for LibreOffice. Member of the board of directors, TDF since 2022.

  • Fun project by design – How LibreOffice development can be full of flow?
  • Introduction to LibreOffice Core
  • Software freedom and more – (re)discovering the origins of TDF
Lothar K. Becker

Lothar is a long time volunteer contributor to LibreOffice and its predecessors. With his company .riess applications he is over 20 years in the migration business with experience in medium and large projects for customers in public and private affairs. he co-developed the certification activities around LibreOffice technology and is nowadays the co-chair of the certification committee. During the pandemic he was the chairman of the board of The Document Foundation. He also is a board member of the Open Source Business Alliance and lobbying for digital sovereignty in private sector and public affairs.

  • Migration to and use of LibreOffice Technology - well known and new motivations and challanges with technical scope and human issues
Marina Latini

Marina Latini studied Computer Science at the University of Perugia, and is a free software advocate since 2007, promoting free software and open standards. In 2010, she was one of the first Italian members of the LibreOffice community and from 2016 until February 2020 she served as board member of The Document Foundation. From September 2020 she is a member of the Membership Committee of The Document Foundation. She has also been an active member of the Fedora Project from 2009 to 2013, and she is an openSUSE advocate since October 2011. Marina co-founded Associazione LibreItalia and has been involved in several events, migrations and training related to LibreOffice. She worked previously at Studio Storti and CIB at migrations and trainings to LibreOffice for the Italian Public Administrations and as a senior migrations and deployments engineer. Since 2020, Marina works at SUSE as a Software Release Engineer.

  • The Document Foundation: an overview from the Membership Committee
  • Meet the Membership Committee
Michael Meeks

Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic Open Source developer. He runs Collabora's Office division, leading our Collabora Online and Office products, supporting customers and partners alongside our extremely talented team. He has served as a Director of the The Document Foundation and has contributed to both ODF and OOXML standardization. Prior to Collabora he gained a wide experience as a Novell/SUSE Distinguished Engineer working on various pieces of Free Software infrastructure across the Linux stack to from the base-system, boot-time, MeeGo, GNOME, CORBA, Nautilus, Evolution and Open Source accessibility, among others.

  • An Economic perspective on FLOSS & LibreOffice technology
  • Introduction to problem solving techniques
Michael Stahl

Fixing bugs our customers need fixed in LibreOffice, employed by allotropia software GmbH.

  • PDF/UA Improvements in LibreOffice
Michael Weghorn

Michael has been involved in the LibreOffice project since 2014, mostly in QA (Quality Assurance) and development. In 2021, he started looking more into LibreOffice accessibility. He joined the TDF team as a LibreOffice developer focusing on accessibility in July 2023.

  • LibreOffice Accessibility in 2023
Mike Dworski

Since 2010, Mike digitized (and proofread) over 700 ebooks and wrote 2,250 posts describing every single facet of ebook conversion and clean document creation.

Since 2022, Mike turned towards LibreOffice, producing over 950 step-by-step tutorials, answered questions, and debugged bugs.

  • The 3 Layers of Typo Correction: AutoCorrect, Spellchecking, and Grammarchecking
Mike Kaganski

LibreOffice developer, TDF member. Work for Collabora Productivity, to make LibreOffice better for everyone.

  • A busy year improving LibreOffice: what a specific full-time developer delivered since the last conference
Miklos Vajna

Miklos got involved with OpenOffice.org development in 2010 when he completed
two Google Summer of Code projects to improve the RTF import/export filter of
Writer. Later he became a full-time LibreOffice Writer developer for SUSE, now
a contractor at Collabora.

  • Multi-page floating tables in Writer
Miklos Vajna
  • Introduction into Writer development
Ming-Kuo Hung

Ming-Kuo received his Ed.D. from the University of San Francisco and is affiliated with the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Ming-Kuo is interested in multicultural education and the digital divide. He continues researching how LibreOffice and the Free Software Movement will inspire Taiwan and its multicultural application.

  • The Taiwanese undergraduate students using experience of LibreOffice and its cultural issues
Olivier Hallot

Currently Global Documentation Coordinator for LibreOffice at The Document Foundation, TDF Staff member, Brazilian Portuguese translation coordinator, LibreOffice activist in Brazil. Founder and Former member of the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation.

  • LibreOffice Documentation
  • LibreOffice Documentation, the Road Ahead
Paris Oplopoios

Hello! I am a software engineer from Greece, currently studying Information and Electronic Engineering.
I joined the LibreOffice community in 2022 with GSoC and I have been contributing since! This year I am joining again to bring APNG support to LibreOffice.

  • Per-view rendering improvements
Rafael Lima

I work as a Professor at the Federal University of Technology - Paraná (Brazil) at the Department of Industrial Engineering. My main areas of research include optimization and data science. I started contributing to LibreOffice in 2020 and since then I have been involved in the areas of documentation, scripting and development.

  • LibreOffice automation via scripting (BASIC, Python)
  • Saving solver settings and other improvements to the solver in Calc
Regina Henschel

I have been involved with LibreOffice and its predecessors for more than twenty-five years. I started with user support and bug reporting, now I am a "certified" developer. Graphics are my main interest. I am not associated with any company, but LibreOffice is my hobby.

I have been a member of the ODF technical committee for ten years . During this time, the committee has developed ODF 1.3. Meanwhile, the development of version 1.4 of the standard is in its final phase.

  • Using multicolor gradients in Basic macros
  • Using multicolor gradients in file markup
Regis Perdreau

Software support at Arawa
Involved in the LibreOffice community since 2015
President of La Mouette, the French LibreOffice community

  • 3 years of LibreOffice support in French, what we've done, what we've learned, what we need, what we want to do next.
Samuel Mehrbrodt

Working on LibreOffice for allotropia.

  • Introducing the accessiblity sidebar
Sara Hatami

I am a computer software engineer with the passion for LibreOffice and open source software.

  • AI chat bot extension for LibreOffice
Sarper Akdemir

LibreOffice hacker at allotropia living in Istanbul, Turkey. Loves free software :)

  • Using UNO in JavaScript with a LOWA in-browser LibreOffice
Stephan Bergmann

Grumpy old dev. Happy to talk.

  • If I Had C++20
Stéphane Guillou

TBA

  • Processing Bugzilla data to inform development
  • Bug reporting and triaging
  • Git basics
Svante Schubert

Svante started in 1999 working on StarOffice in Hamburg for Sun Microsystem.
Focusing on the ODF Standard and their browser office backends, which is now TDF's ODF Toolkit.
In addition, he created the (X)HTML export for ODF via XSLT being part of LibreOffice.
Now he is a freelancer in Berlin working as co-chair and co-editor in the OASIS ODF TC and co-maintaining with Michael Stahl the ODF Toolkit.
His other hobby is being a co-editor at the CEN e-invoice norm EN16931.

  • ODF and its Toolkit!
Szymon Kłos

LibreOffice hacker since 2014. In the recent years, focused on bringing LibreOffice technology to the web with Collabora Productivity.

  • Improvements in JSDialogs - LibreOfficeKit API for UI components
Thorsten Behrens
  • SDK Survival: Conquer the Wilds of LibreOffice - or Die Trying
Thorsten Behrens

Thorsten is leading a team of LibreOffice developers at allotropia software, and is a long-time TDF contributor to both code and organisation. Thorsten is a Free software enthusiast & LibreOffice hacker; owner @allotropia@fosstodon.org and current chairperson @tdforg@fosstodon.org.

  • The LibreOffice Template System (the extension formerly known as WollMux)
  • Google Summer of Code Student panel
Timur Gadzo

Long term LO user and TDF volunteer turned Collabora Productivity QA Engineer.

  • Tracking bugs in LibreOffice together
TomaĹľ Vajngerl

TomaĹľ Vajngerl is a software engineer from Maribor, Slovenia. In 2012 he started working on LibreOffice as volunteer and later started working for Collabora Productivity as his full-time job.

  • Document Themes
Ximena Alcaman

Software development student from Chile, Outreachy intern 2022-2023 working on a LibreOffice project.

  • Outreachy Project: Modernizing the LibreOffice Windows installer to enhance maintenance and efficiency.
Xisco Fauli

I work for The Document Foundation as QA Engineer, mostly focus on test automation but also doing some development

  • Gerrit for code reviews
  • Support of SVG filters in LibreOffice