Organizing LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025: What It Takes, and What It Builds - Shinji Enoki
2026-09-10 16:30 - 17:00 UTC | Track Room 2
This talk reports on organizing LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025 (Tokyo, December 13-14, 2025), co-hosted with GNOME Asia Summit 2025. LibreOffice's local team normally decides everything, while GNOME Asia's local team only handles on-the-ground tasks — so our team ended up doing both. On the preparation side: venue, this dual structure, the call for papers, visas, meals, printed materials, and a post-conference tour, along with the thinking behind these decisions. On the outcomes side: discussion at the event was genuinely lively, and it did strengthen connections between communities — though it's hard to measure exactly how much. This is a first-hand, practical account of what it took to run this event.
