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An example of this process is presented below:\r\nUnique Word\tFrequency\tProbability\r\nTrain\t2\t2/4 = 0.50\r\nFire\t1\t1/4 = 0.25\r\nBekasi\t1\t1/4 = 0.25\r\n\r\nIn LibreOffice Calc, the formula used to calculate the entropy contribution of a probability value is:\r\n=-(0.5*LN(0.5)/LN(2))\r\nThe result of this calculation is 0.5. This serves as an example of entropy calculation based on a probability value. In information theory, entropy is used to measure the amount of uncertainty or information contained in a dataset. The same calculation can be applied to other probability values, and the resulting entropy contributions can then be summed to obtain the total entropy of the dataset.\r\nIn addition, I calculated the probabilities of sentiment categories that had previously been grouped into three classes: positive, negative, and neutral. The first step was to determine the number of instances belonging to each sentiment category. To perform this calculation in LibreOffice Calc, I used the following formulas:\r\n=COUNTIF(A:A,\"positive\")\r\n=COUNTIF(A:A,\"negative\")\r\n=COUNTIF(A:A,\"neutral\")\r\nThese formulas count the occurrences of each sentiment label within the dataset. The resulting counts are then used to calculate the probability of each sentiment category by dividing the frequency of each category by the total number of records. The results are presented in the following table:\r\n\r\nA\t                  B\r\nSentiment\tFrequency\r\nPositive\t        140\r\nNegative\t35\r\nNeutral\t        16\r\nTotal\t        191\r\n\r\nAfter obtaining the counts for the positive, negative, and neutral sentiment categories, the next step was to calculate the probability of each sentiment. Before calculating these probabilities, the total number of sentiment instances was determined by summing all sentiment categories. Subsequently, the probability of each sentiment was calculated by dividing the frequency of a sentiment category by the total number of records.\r\nFor example, the formula used in LibreOffice Calc was:\r\n=B2/$B$5\r\nUsing this formula, the probability of the positive sentiment category was calculated as 0.73298. The same procedure was applied to the negative and neutral sentiment categories. The complete results are presented in the following table:\r\nA\t                                 B\t                  C\r\nSentiment Category\tFrequency\tProbability\r\nPositive\t                        140\t                   0.73298\r\nNegative\t                35\t                   0.18325\r\nNeutral\t                        16\t                   0.08377\r\nTotal\t                        191\r\n\r\nLibreOffice Calc proved to be a valuable alternative for this study due to its ease of use and user-friendly interface. The software was straightforward to understand and provided a comfortable working environment for data processing and analysis. Based on this experience, I would recommend the use of LibreOffice Calc to other students and researchers who require an accessible and effective tool for data analysis.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "NB9ESP", "name": "Sibro Abdurrahman", "avatar": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/media/avatars/NB9ESP_7ZJGLBH.webp", "biography": "Sibro Abdurrahman is an undergraduate Computer Science student with research interests in Data Mining, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence. His work focuses on text mining, sentiment analysis, and machine learning applications. 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For administration, ministries, authorities and public IT, this is insufficient. Many AI systems focus on generating content.\r\n\r\nHowever, in public administrations, enterprises and regulated environments, the central questions are often different:\r\n\r\nWho worked on a document?\r\nWhich state was reviewed?\r\nWas the document changed afterwards?\r\nCan a verified state be transferred, audited or reconstructed?\r\n\r\nKWI LIAN introduces a local governance and evidence infrastructure around LibreOffice Writer and Calc.\r\n\r\nThe Kyber extension integrates directly into LibreOffice and provides document state verification, LIAN stamps, evidence creation and workflow visibility.\r\n\r\nThe approach follows a simple principle:\r\n\r\nThe AI supports.\r\nThe human decides.\r\nThe infrastructure documents.\r\n\r\nThe talk presents how LibreOffice can become a local workspace for governable AI-supported document workflows without cloud dependency.\r\n\r\nTopics include:\r\n\r\n* LibreOffice Writer and Calc extension integration\r\n* local AI support architecture\r\n* document state verification\r\n* Human Commit Boundary\r\n* server-side evidence records\r\n* hashes, snapshots and commit information\r\n* multi-user handover scenarios\r\n* digital sovereignty for public sector environments\r\n\r\nKWI LIAN does not replace human decisions and does not act as an autonomous decision system. 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A few weeks later, LibreThinker was published on the LibreOffice extensions directory.\r\n\r\nDiscovering OpenRouter opened the door to hosting a completely free service for users who did not want to manage AI provider accounts. That introduced async job handling, error recovery across very different model backends, and the operational realities of running a free public endpoint on the open internet (including the DDoS attacks I faced). Then came support for users who wanted to connect their own AI provider account (via LiteLLM), and finally the option to run models entirely on the user's own machine through Ollama or Llama.cpp.\r\n\r\nSix months on, the extension has over 18,000 downloads. 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I will also briefly mention the direction I am exploring next: using IOSurface-based delegated rendering instead of trying to make LibreOffice draw directly into a Java-owned view.", "description": "This is a short work-in-progress talk about my attempt to understand and improve macOS support for LibreOffice OfficeBean.\r\n\r\nI began with what looked like a missing native bridge: OfficeBean has platform code for Linux/Unix and Windows, but not for macOS. My first approach was to add a Cocoa/JNI implementation that could connect Java\u2019s window handling with LibreOffice. That got me a little further than before, because the bridge loaded and the embedded window could be created. But the actual LibreOffice content did not render, leaving only a grey area.\r\n\r\nThe interesting part is what this revealed. The issue may not be just a missing macOS file or a simple handle-passing problem. From the discussion with maintainers, it appears that macOS has more stringent limits regarding sharing native windows between processes. So the next question is whether OfficeBean on macOS needs a different rendering approach.\r\n\r\nI would like to use this lightning talk to share the path I followed, the problems I hit, and the possible next direction with IOSurface-based delegated rendering. I am still working on it, so feedback from people who know VCL, macOS, Skia/Metal, Java, or UNO would be especially helpful.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "8AGUPU", "name": "Rohan Singh", "avatar": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/media/avatars/8AGUPU_DGd0LxF.webp", "biography": "I am Rohan Singh, a mechanical engineer based in Berlin with a background in sustainable mobility and automotive management. 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As part of this, she designs further trainings and continuing education programs for and with developers to ensure that accessibility requirements are considered from the very beginning of the software development process and thus implemented sustainably.\r\n\r\nIn her private life, she is active in NGOs focused on education, data privacy, and FOSS within the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) environment, and is also in regular exchange with various open source communities.\r\n\r\n[Mastodon](https://social.tchncs.de/@raka_a11y)", "public_name": "Ramona Kaufmann", "guid": "c26e0210-7658-5a7f-8ad9-3a1c2f6b3c77", "url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/speaker/88LQR9/"}, {"code": "APSFGW", "name": "Benjamin Tannert", "avatar": null, "biography": null, "public_name": "Benjamin Tannert", "guid": "5a8d0b04-d1e5-5cb7-8eb0-b2a3c7f54f2d", "url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/speaker/APSFGW/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/talk/P9UGMY/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/talk/P9UGMY/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "cf849c94-a947-501d-8686-432d8a8be8da", "code": "NTSWFK", "id": 479, "logo": null, "date": "2026-09-11T12:30:00+00:00", "start": "12:30", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Track Room 1", "slug": "libreoffice-conference-2026-479-managing-colours-and-fonts-in-libreoffice-for-visual-accessibility", "url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/talk/NTSWFK/", "title": "Managing colours and fonts in LibreOffice for visual accessibility", "subtitle": "", "track": "d) Appealing LibreOffice: Ease of Use, Design and Accessibility", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "The classic \u2018blank page\u2019 in word processors and standard user interfaces are not neutral: for users with low vision, photophobia or specific learning difficulties, poor management of contrast and typography represents a genuine digital accessibility barrier.\r\n\r\nThis talk explores the \u2018behind the scenes\u2019 of visual accessibility, using LibreOffice as a reference suite and examining the [official](https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Accessibility/Accessibility-dev/it) development specifications for colour and font management. We will analyse how the software interacts with the operating system to automatically detect and inherit \u2018High Contrast\u2019 settings, dynamically adapting the interface without requiring complex manual configuration by the user.\r\n\r\nWe will delve into the rendering logic designed for maximum readability: from the automatic removal of fill colours and text in Impress and Draw when used in high-contrast mode, to the distinct highlighting of the current row and column in Calc, right through to the forced overwriting of document background colours. We will also see how the architecture enables scalable resizing of interface fonts and the disabling of animations to reduce cognitive load.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "TXJRQC", "name": "Francesco Terenzio", "avatar": null, "biography": "Sono Francesco Terenzio, studente di Informatica presso l'Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Bari e sono anche uno sviluppatore.\r\n\r\nAttualmente sono referente della sezione locale di Bari della Italian Linux Society ed assieme agli altri associati teniamo conferenze sul mondo Linux e open-source.", "public_name": "Francesco Terenzio", "guid": "39513f38-2ccf-51ad-9cc4-8dd011f68a1c", "url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/speaker/TXJRQC/"}, {"code": "CEDQRK", "name": "Ugo Lopez", "avatar": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/media/avatars/CEDQRK_lzKuRCX.webp", "biography": "Ingegnere informatico forense, giurista e docente incaricato di informativa forense presso l'Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Bari \"Aldo Moro\". Con una duplice anima tecnica e legale, ha approfondito i temi legati al software libero sia dal punto di vista ingegneristico, sia attraverso la ricerca giuridica, dedicando la sua tesi di laurea in Scienze Giuridiche all'analisi delle differenze operative e interpretative tra Open Source e Free Software.  La sua esperienza si focalizza sull'applicazione del software FLOSS in ambiti critici e complessi, promuovendone attivamente l'adozione e la conoscenza sia nel settore privato che nella Pubblica Amministrazione. \u00c8 co-fondatore e membro del Consiglio Direttivo di Italian Linux Society (ILS) Bari e ha guidato la migrazione e l'ottimizzazione di distribuzioni e strumenti basati su GNU/Linux. Specializzato con un master biennale in e-learning e nella realizzazione di Learning Objects, integra costantemente gli strumenti per l'Office Automation a sorgente aperta nei percorsi formativi, traghettando scuole, universit\u00e0 e agenzie verso una completa trasformazione digitale.  Da sempre attento ai temi della accessibilit\u00e0 e dell'inclusione, ha integrato nel suo percorso formativo e professionale competenze specifiche in Didattica dell'inclusione e Tecnologie dell'istruzione e dell'apprendimento, anche attraverso la partecipazione ad un dottorato LEDIEL (Leadership, Empowerment and Digital Innovation in Education and Learning). 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It helps people and organizations keep access to their documents over a long time, and it allows different applications to work with the same document formats. This is especially important when documents must remain usable across many years, systems, and organizations.\r\n\r\nStill, the history and current state of ODF are not always easy to understand. Each ODF version has added or changed features. Each application supports different versions and features. Some tools can read or write ODF files directly, while others can work with ODF data through data-processing workflows. As a result, useful knowledge about ODF is often spread across many places.\r\n\r\nIn this session, Koji Annoura will show a way to manage this knowledge using LibreOffice itself. The main example will be ODF versions, ODF-compatible applications, related tools, and interoperability. The session will also be a case study in a more general method: collecting information, checking sources, structuring data, and keeping the result in a form that can be maintained with LibreOffice and ODF.", "description": "ODF is an important open standard for office documents. It helps people and organizations keep access to their documents over a long time, and it allows different applications to work with the same document formats. This is especially important when documents must remain usable across many years, systems, and organizations.\r\nStill, the history and current state of ODF are not always easy to understand. Each ODF version has added or changed features. Each application supports different versions and features. Some tools can read or write ODF files directly, while others can work with ODF data through data-processing workflows. As a result, useful knowledge about ODF is often spread across many places.\r\nIn this session, Koji Annoura will show a way to manage this knowledge using LibreOffice itself. The main example will be ODF versions, ODF-compatible applications, related tools, and interoperability. The session will also be a case study in a more general method: collecting information, checking sources, structuring data, and keeping the result in a form that can be maintained with LibreOffice and ODF.\r\nThe session will cover:\r\nhow to collect and verify information about ODF versions, applications, and interoperability from scattered sources\r\nhow to organize this information as structured data using LibreOffice Calc and Base\r\nhow this LibreOffice-centered method can be reused for other technical research and knowledge management tasks\r\nRelated tools such as Apache Hop, Neo4j, and SQL/PGQ expected in PostgreSQL 19 will be mentioned as optional extensions. They can help when data processing or deeper relationship analysis is needed. However, the main focus will remain on LibreOffice and ODF.\r\nThis session is not about replacing structured data with AI output. AI systems can suggest hints, directions, and possible research paths. But complete and reliable knowledge still needs to be stored and maintained properly as data, just as before.\r\nFor this reason, it is important not to depend only on a specific AI service or a temporary processing result. Knowledge data should be kept in open formats, such as LibreOffice documents and ODF. By keeping the data in open formats and using LibreOffice to manage and explore it, we can make the evolution of ODF easier to understand, easier to explain, and easier to preserve.\r\nThis approach is not limited to ODF. The same method can be used for other topics where information is spread across specifications, documentation, release notes, websites, and community knowledge. Examples include technical research, migration planning, interoperability analysis, educational materials, and organizational knowledge management.\r\nThis approach may also support long-term digital sovereignty by keeping knowledge data in open formats that can be maintained and inspected with LibreOffice.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "YSD7VL", "name": "Koji Annoura", "avatar": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/media/avatars/YSD7VL_K2WCXQO.webp", "biography": "Koji Annoura is a Knowledge Graph architect and open-source community leader based in Japan.\r\n\r\nHe works with graph technologies, structured knowledge, open standards, and AI systems. His recent interests include Knowledge Graphs, GraphRAG, Neo4j, Cypher, GQL, SQL/PGQ, and how reliable knowledge can be maintained in open and traceable formats.\r\n\r\nKoji co-founded the Neo4j Users Group Tokyo in 2013 and founded the Apache Hop User Group Japan in 2021. He has organized more than 50 technical community events and has spoken at international open-source conferences including FOSSASIA, COSCUP, and LibreOffice Conference.\r\n\r\nHe focuses on building knowledge systems that connect data, documents, tools, and communities in a sustainable way.", "public_name": "Koji Annoura", "guid": "4d345e76-adce-57ee-820e-c69792f18a83", "url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/speaker/YSD7VL/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/talk/L73VKR/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/talk/L73VKR/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "1c1a9fec-3a2d-50b4-892b-6f62d1d63806", "code": "USDKXP", "id": 462, "logo": null, "date": "2026-09-11T14:30:00+00:00", "start": "14:30", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Track Room 1", "slug": "libreoffice-conference-2026-462-odfvalidator-lib-making-odf-validation-practical-for-real-world-documents", "url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/talk/USDKXP/", "title": "odfvalidator-lib: Making ODF validation practical for real-world documents", "subtitle": "", "track": "e) Open Document Format, Digital Sovereignty and Interoperability", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "As governments move toward digital sovereignty, open document formats such as ODF are becoming more important: they allow documents to remain usable without depending on a particular software vendor. But adopting ODF is only the beginning.\r\n\r\nTwelve years of ODF adoption in Taiwan has taught us that a document can pass a formal ODF schema validator and still cause problems in real-world use \u2014 from layout-grid drift and hand-crafted headings and tables of contents to automatic-style bloat and other document anti-patterns.\r\n\r\nThis talk introduces odfvalidator-lib, an MPL-2.0 project developed under a project of Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs. Built on top of TDF ODF Toolkit's specification validator, it adds format-quality checkers designed to catch problems that schema validation cannot. We will discuss what we learned from applying these checks in practice, and show how the embeddable C++/C ABI library, language bindings, structured JSON output, and batch mode can be integrated into document-processing pipelines.\r\n\r\nBecause an open format is only useful if we can trust the documents we put into it.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "DVHVA9", "name": "Franklin Weng", "avatar": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/media/avatars/Image-0003-small._RlgkRmS.jpg", "biography": "https://about.me/fweng322", "public_name": "Franklin Weng", "guid": "191b99ca-9354-5dac-aca7-b43b97f35736", "url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/speaker/DVHVA9/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/talk/USDKXP/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/talk/USDKXP/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "9711468b-9465-5352-b695-1a9a5142f61b", "code": "DKRDNB", "id": 466, "logo": null, "date": "2026-09-11T15:00:00+00:00", "start": "15:00", "duration": "01:00", "room": "Track Room 1", "slug": "libreoffice-conference-2026-466-font-management-for-document-interoperability-in-libreoffice", "url": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2026/talk/DKRDNB/", "title": "Font management for document interoperability in LibreOffice", "subtitle": "", "track": "e) Open Document Format, Digital Sovereignty and Interoperability", "type": "Workshop1", "language": "en", "abstract": "The main issue for document interoperability is a trivial one, and are fonts which are proprietary on Windows/macOS and free on Linux. LibreOffice is capable of handling on the fly font replacement to solve the issue, but the feature has to be configured and managed to work properly.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "VDEPJP", "name": "Italo Vignoli", "avatar": "https://events.documentfoundation.org/media/avatars/VDEPJP_3uHHz2w.webp", "biography": "Italo Vignoli is a founding member of The Document Foundation, the Chairman Emeritus of Associazione LibreItalia, a Software Heritage Ambassador, and a former BoD member at Open Source Initiative (OSI). He co-leads LibreOffice marketing, PR and media relations, co-chairs the certification program, and is a spokesman for the project. He has contributed to migration projects to LibreOffice in Italy. From 2004 to 2010 he has been involved in the OOo project. 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This talk will give a big-picture look at how the RTL authoring workflow has improved, by comparison with earlier versions. This talk will also review and explain the specific new features that contribute to this workflow improvement. 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For beginners transitioning from proprietary ecosystems like Microsoft Office, a jarring UI shift can hinder adoption. This presentation introduces a conceptual framework for a customizable, tileable user interface system within LibreOffice, designed to give users ultimate control over their workspace through intuitive drag and drop mechanics.\r\nRather than proposing a heavy, modern web-app overhaul that compromises system resources, this design philosophy focuses strictly on leveraging LibreOffice's existing native libraries. By utilizing the suite\u2019s established codebase, we can achieve high performance, lightweight UI responsiveness without the memory bloat typical of modern framework shifts.\r\nThis 30 minute session will explore the UX layout logic of a modular button and panel library, the technical advantages of keeping UI rendering low-level and native, and how a highly adaptable interface can lower the barrier to entry for new users. 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