2025-09-04, 11:30–12:00 (Europe/Budapest), Auditorium
Work on LibreOffice can be supported by grants from European Union and other sources. Translation, documentation, trainings, even development is in the heart of this or that grant program. How we can collaborate to make it happen and how can you make your work easier and more impactful? Let's see a possible future!
LIbreOffice is already a great software very well usable in multiple domains. But how it can be more spread into public? In this session I will present a roadmap (not "the roadmap") for more support for LibreOffice in Europe with use of grants from different sources. With such grants we can accelerate work in translation, education, marketing, and even development of LibreOffice, while providing better compensation to activists than by volunteering.
While learning to participate in a new grant programe can be challenging at first, with right direction, support and time it becames easier. Especialy when your colleagues from other countries are doing it too. And, well, I learned how to do it, so you can as well ;-)
The session will focus on Europe but with some modifications can be used for other parts of Earth.
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.