Join us in Luxembourg to share what you are doing with LibreOffice, your Open Source project/community, your efforts to achieve Digital Sovereignty and what Open Source software has to offer to the EdTech communities.

The Document Foundation invites members, contributors and the wider community of FOSS users, developers and promoters to submit talks, lectures and workshops for this year's LibreOffice and Open Source conference that will be held in Luxembourg.

The event will take place from the 10th to the 12th of October with an informal community meeting on October 9 and a specific focus on FOSS projects/communities, Digital Soverignty and EdTech for the 10th of October.

Proposals should be filed by August 15, 2024 in order to guarantee that they will be considered for inclusion in the conference program.

The conference program proposes 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) Open Source projects/communities, Digital Sovereignty and CyberSecurity
h) Open Source based tools and platforms for EdTech

Business track:
- Enterprise Deployments and Migrations, Certifications and Best Practices, Building a successful business around LibreOffice and Open Source software
- Round table with representatives of various types of stakeholders
- Open Source software for small local businesses, governments, education and non profit organisations

Presentations, case studies, workshops, 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). Sessions will be streamed live and recorded for download.

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

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 Luxembourg and prefer to present remotely, please add a note to your talk proposal, in order to allow organizers to schedule your talk (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.

Of course, this is just the conference Call for Papers - but everyone is welcome to come along and attend the talks and events! We'll post again soon, when registration is open...

Thanks a lot for your participation!

You can enter proposals until 2024-08-15 11:51 (UTC), 2 weeks, 5 days from now.