LibreOffice Conference 2025

LibreOffice activities:

• Macros & Scripting online help review & maintenance
• Basic statements diagrams
• Python online help
• ScriptForge Python/Basic scripting library co-initiator with JP Ledure
• SF library online help
• TDF wiki macro-related documentation

I joined the OpenOffice.org project in 2002, starting with Hungarian localization. In 2010 LibreOffice was born and I have been working on it since then. In 2011 I was hired by SUSE, then I continued in Collabora from 2013 as a full-time contractor.

Aron has always had fondness for hunting down (virtual) bugs and anything that could be troubling users. Contributing to LibreOffice since 2016 both in quality assurance and fixes, and having been responsible for quality assurance at Collabora Productivity for years, recently he has shifted focus towards directly improving quality by fixing code.

I am Balázs Varga and I am hacking on LibreOffice since 2017.

Ego sum in porta limine.

Release Engineer & System Administrator working for The Document Foundation

Active in the project since 2012, former Membership committee member. :-)

Dione Maddern is a technical writer who works with the LibreOffice Documentation Team. Dione has extensive experience in technical writing, document production, and project management across a variety of industries, including engineering and software development.

• Focused on support for Right-to-Left scripts in LibreOffice.
• Active on the RTL, Hebrew, and Arabic LO Channels on Telegram.
• Active in design meetings.
• Files lots of bugs (soon to surpass 900).
• Disgruntled TDF Trustee who believes the TDF is non-transparent with excessive centralized authority and insufficient oversight.
  
  
• Lives in Palestine/Israel, but opposes the Israeli regime and its murderous onslaughts.
• An Anarchist.
• A former labor union organizer.
• A software developer - but whose development work is not on LibreOffice; see: https://github.com/eyalroz/
• A GPU guy.

https://about.me/fweng322

Long time translator, contributor to LibreOffice, currently QA at Collabora.

Born in 1956, Study "Technical Cybernetics and Automation Technology" from 1974-78, Doctor of Computer Science 1986. Development experience in Embedded Hard- and Software for electric power applications, and of course documentation. Programming languages assembler since 1978, C/++ since 1990, Java since 2004, UML, Function Block Graphic for Automation Control, Simulink etc.

UX architect @TDF

Ilmari works for TDF as a mentor and a digital handyman.

Engineer in applied mathematics.
Retired from several activities and roles in Information Technology services companies.
Author of the Access2Base and ScriptForge extensions.

Koji Annoura is a highly experienced full-stack developer with over 40 years in the industry.
He has been involved in Agile software development since 2009 and played a key role in founding the "Neo4j Users Group Tokyo" in Japan. Additionally, he established the "Apache Hop User Group Japan" in 2021.

Koji has actively supported numerous companies and teams in their agile transformation journeys, assisting with the implementation of Agile and Scrum methodologies.

He is also an accomplished author, having contributed to "A technical guidebook to cloud native databases", "The Practical Guide to MacOS X Server," and serves as a technical reviewer for "Graph Data Processing with Cypher."

László is a free software activist at FSF.hu Foundation, Hungary, and free software developer since 1998, when he was a PhD student in conservation biology. Contributor of LibreOffice code base since 2002. He extended OpenOffice.org's MySpell to a real international spell checker, Hunspell, which became the de facto standard, integrated not only with LibreOffice and other open source software, but proprietary ones, e.g. PhotoShop, Adobe InDesign, macOS and Windows, spreading LibreOffice technology. Many of his unique language technology and other developments are included in LibreOffice, for example Numbertext, Lightproof and LibreLogo. In 2018–2023 he has fixed half a thousand interoperability bugs in LibreOffice, working for NISZ, the biggest ICT provider in the public sector in Hungary, and helped to solve hundreds of other bugs leading a group of LibreOffice developers. At TDF, he is currently serving his second term on the Board of Directors.

Lothar is a long-time contributor and member of The Document Foundation.
He has over 25 years of experience with his company in providing services and development for free and open source office productivity systems. With this experience he is a trusted advisor in major current migration projects for digital sovereignty, both in public administration and in the private sector.
He is certified as a LibreOffice Senior Migration Consultant and Senior Trainer. He also co-chairs the certification committee of The Document Foundation. From 2020 to 2022, he served as Chairman of the Board.
As member of the Board of the Open Source Business Alliance he is lobbying in talks and panels for Open Source, free and open Standards like the Open Document Format and business models with it.

Luciana Campos Mota is an IT Analyst with 19 years of experience at the Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service (Serpro). Passionate about technology and inclusion, she has been a prominent figure in research within the field of artificial intelligence in education and governmental project management. As a professional working in an environment that values innovation and accessibility, she has always been interested in the world of free software, particularly the evolution of LibreOffice. Luciana believes in the potential of these tools and emerging technologies to transform lives, democratize access to technology, and promote more equitable access to information. In this context, Luciana is committed to sharing knowledge that fosters a more accessible digital environment for everyone.

Michael is the CEO of Collabora's Office division, leading Collabora Online and Office products, and supports customers and partners alongside our extremely talented team. He has served as a founder and Director of The Document Foundation, been involved in both ODF and OOXML standardization, with a long history of contribution to different Open Source projects.

Michael has been contributing to LibreOffice and other FLOSS projects since 2014. In 2023, he joined
the team at The Document Foundation as a LibreOffice developer with primary focus on accessibility.

Michal Matúšov (also known as KuboF Hromoslav) is a long-term free culture and language activist, focusing mostly on Wikimedia and Esperanto. He studied informatics at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia and uses it in his social work. He founded 2 Wikimedia organisations (for Slovakia and for Esperanto) and led several others, including the World Esperanto Youth Organization (TEJO). For long time he worked in an environment of grant-enabled projects, managed multiple small grant projects and later himself requested and led projects supported by tens of thousands of euros from Erasmus+. In the World Esperanto Youth Organization he was a board member (vic-)responsible for grant projects for 2 times. Now he focuses more on enginered extreme longevity, integral being, and peace.

Moritz is working at Allotropia / Collabora as Senior Developer for web app integration of Collabora Online and ZetaOffice-JS. He's focusing on bringing APIs for WASM and server based LibreOffice into web development. And Free Software communities, hacker culture & conferences have been a part of his life since 20+ years and he has an extensive history of DevOps and multilingual programming experience. He likes to use his favorite rock solid Debian GNU/Linux to do everything from running web servers to development to gaming, including SuperTuxKart ;-) And as a student researcher in Hamburg he build multicast technology on OpenWRT. Also he's worked many years with all kinds of FOSS as Leading Developer & Technical Product Manager for IT security solutions, so he also has a strong focus towards keeping systems safe.

I am a LibreOffice advocate for more than 10 years and a TDF member.

I'm a systems analyst with degrees in Computer Science and Data Processing, specializing in computation and artificial intelligence. I've worked at major digital agencies and Brasil Telecom, where I was responsible for creating and implementing key projects.
For over 4 years, I've dedicated my time as a volunteer to BigLinux, a Brazilian open-source distribution. In this role, I contribute to both development and UI/UX design, always striving to enhance the user experience.
My passion lies in technology and innovation, and my goal is always to find new solutions to simplify people's daily lives. Currently, I serve as the Director of Technology (IT), Development, and IoT at Ruscher Investimentos & Participações, a company focused on nanomaterials like graphene, niobium, and rare earth elements for mining technology products.

Ravi Dwivedi is a free software and privacy activist from India. He is the CEO of the Prav cooperative. He runs mirrors for LibreOffice in India and spreads awareness about LibreOffice in the country.

Members of TDF for years, Work in Arawa. Members of La Mouette, french community.

Started contributing to LibreOffice during the college summer vacations --- got involved with the design team --- worked on the LibreOffice Themes GSoC project under Heiko's mentorship --- interned at allotropia, now CollaboraProductivity.

Shinji Enoki is a member of the LibreOffice Japanese Team and a member of the Membership Committee. He focuses on organizing events and supporting community activities. He occasionally responds to questions on Ask and contributes translations, while quality assurance efforts are done even less frequently.

He is also active in other communities, serving as a staff member of the Wikimedians of Japan User Group, an organizing member of the Nextcloud Japan community, and a volunteer staff member for the Japan UNIX Society and KANSAI OPEN SOURCE, among others.

He is a freelancer and is developing a LibreOffice support business in Japan.

Svante had started at StarDivision in 1999, working on WebOffices, XSL transformation to HTML, the ODF Toolkit and Standards since the beginning.

He is the OASIS ODF co-chair and, with Michael Stahl, the ODF Toolkit co-maintainer.

He earns his income working on the EU e-invoice standard EN16931

Thorsten is a LibreOffice hacker and standards wonk. During his now 20 years of tenure in the project, he's spent most of his time hacking the code in areas ranging from build system, platform abstraction libraries, Impress and Writer.

Thorsten's a computer scientist by education, and a Free Software enthusiast by heart, a geek from early childhood - and someone who was lucky enough to turn a hobby into an occupation. After first working for Sun Microsystems on then-OpenOffice.org, he then went with a number of others founding The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project.

These days, his day job includes substantial amounts of project management and customer interactions, which does not prevent him from still messing with LibreOffice code.

Timothy's family history is of Grandparents and parents who ended up settling in Brazil. Timothy's parents were already bilingual when he was born learning both US English and Brazilian Portuguese during childhood. At a certain time during adolescence, Timothy decided to ensure that both languages would be on equal standing with each other. That decision has been among the most important in his life.

QA Engineer @ The Document Foundation

I am Shazedur Rahim Joardar (Ring) from Dhaka, Bangladesh. As an IT professional my 22+ year of journey was packed with various GNU/Linux deployments, maintenance and end-user support. Loves resolving daily 15+ on-site and remote support to Debian/Ubuntu/OracleLinux/Alma/Rocky/FreeBSD/OpenBSD and many more. I am a GNU/Linux user, lover, translator and supporter since 2000, and a sysadmin since 2003 using Red Hat 5.0, later Fedora and RHEL. I am using Ubuntu in personal computers since December 2006. Canonical had sent a zero-priced gift pack of 10 CDs with Ubuntu 6.10 back then. I have started deployment of Ubuntu servers with Ubuntu 8.04 in 2009. Since 2009, I personally made over 6,300 new desktop or laptop installations with Ubuntu and LinuxMint.

In 2011, me along with 21 more Free software enthusiasts formed an organization titled “FOSS Bangladesh (Foundation for Open Source Solutions Bangladesh)” and started official tour to the Universities here in Bangladesh. Up to December 2024, FOSS Bangladesh had organized 83 events in various universities and colleges and schools to spread out the digital freedom knowledge among the pupils, the future leaders. In my invitation Mr. Richard M. Stallman Sir had visited Dhaka, Bangladesh at Daffodil International University for a session in 2014. I am also a Mozillian (Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Fan, User and Supporter and end user support volunteer). My email and telegram (https://t.me/toshazed) id are very public and open to all Digital Freedom enthusiasts, lovers, users and interested ones. I can communicate in Bengali, English, Hindi, Urdu