Call for Papers 2023

Meet us in Bucharest, and tell us what you're doing with LibreOffice!

The Document Foundation invites all members and contributors to submit talks, lectures and workshops for this year's LibreOffice Conference in Bucharest. The event will take place from Thursday, September 21, to Saturday, September 23, 2023. Whether you are a seasoned presenter or have never spoken in public before, if you have something interesting to share about LibreOffice or the Document Liberation Project, we want to hear from you!

Proposals should be filed by July 15, 2023 in order to guarantee that they will be considered for inclusion in the conference program.

The conference program will be based on the following community 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

We will also have a "LibreOffice in Business" track:

  • Enterprise Deployments and Migrations
  • Certifications and Best Practices
  • Building a successful business around LibreOffice
  • Round table with company representatives
  • Small local businesses, governments and non profits

Presentations, case studies and technical talks will discuss a subject in depth, and will last 30 minutes (including Q&A). Workshops, with discussion on a specific subject or hands-on sessions, will last from 60 to 120 minutes (including Q&A). Lightning talks will cover a specific topic and will last 5 minutes (including Q&A). Sessions will be streamed live and recorded for download.

Please add a short description/bio of yourself to your talk/workshop proposal.

If you need a VISA, please get in touch with the organization team by sending an email at conference@libreoffice.org as soon as possible, to get an invitation letter.

If you cannot travel to Romania and prefer to present remotely, 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's YouTube channel, please do not submit talks containing copyrighted material (music or 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 2023-07-16 07:55 (Europe/Bucharest).