2026-09-10 –, 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.
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 Forum (KOF), among others.
He is a freelancer and is developing a LibreOffice support business in Japan.