Collabora Productivity attended the LibreOffice Conference 2016 and it was amazing. The event was held in Brno. This easy to reach city is a technological hub in the Czech Republic and it boosts many tech companies, such as RedHat. In order to show our support for the LibreOffice project and for this event, we became one of the Main Sponsors.
Tuesday, Sept 6th – Team day
Great weather and the perfect time for a team day. With the team we went to “Lanové centrum PROUD – Brno”, where we had to work together to pass the most difficult rope challenges, at a dizzying height. A truly amazing experience everybody enjoyed a lot!
Afterwards, it was time for a nice dinner with the team, followed by a drink with the LibreOffice Conference attendees at the LibreOffice Conference venue, the campus of the Faculty of Information Technology at the Brno University of Technology.
Wednesday, Sept. 7th – LibreOffice conference day 1
The first day of the event was packed with talks. At 9:00am the opening sessiones started and after lunch, Collaborians Tor, Pranav and Tomaz had their talks.
The opening of the event:
The LibreOffice Conference 2016 has started! @libocon pic.twitter.com/1KoYQ1sv6m
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 7, 2016
Michael’s keynote at the opening session:
.@michael_meeks at @libocon: Our mission is to make @LibreOffice rock! Thanks for your help, everbody! pic.twitter.com/uCbok1xojU
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 7, 2016
Our goody for the attendees was a cool Collabora Productivity watch! A big success, because many people wore them and mixed and matched colours. At the end of the event there were no watches left.
Amazing #gadgets from our #sponsors! #libocon pic.twitter.com/wnXhMUFhJq
— Marina Latini (@deneb_alpha) September 7, 2016
Talk of Pranav:
Integrate your applications with #LibreOffice using LOK GTK widget. Pranav from @CollaboraOffice at @libocon. pic.twitter.com/NT1YgdWN5L
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 7, 2016
Tomaz’s talk:
Tomaz from Collabora talks about the VCL OpenGL backend performance improvements in #LibreOffice at #LiboCon 2016 pic.twitter.com/olFRnef7FE
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 7, 2016
In the evening it was time for a party! We all went to the offices of RedHat:
#LibreOffice Conference party #LibOCon pic.twitter.com/GzbIow2Czv
— Florian Effenberger (@floeff) September 7, 2016
Hacking on LibreOffice at the offices of RedHat:
How to make #LibreOffice developers happy. @libocon pic.twitter.com/Q3DOSOqp85
— Heiko Tietze (@HeikoTietze) September 7, 2016
Thursday, Sept. 8th – LibreOffice conference day 2
The second day started nice and early. Although many attendees were hacking until late the day before, talks were still very well attended. This second day our team members László, Ashod, Miklos, Olivier and Andras had talks.
Everything about graphic design with LibreOffice and LibreLogo at the talk of László:
How to quickly make a cool poster with #LibreOffice. Talk from László from Collabora Productivity at #LiboCon #howto pic.twitter.com/wZadIHVIpd
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 8, 2016
Ashod at his talk:
#LibreOffice #Calc Tiled Rendering. What do we do to make it better. Ashod Nakashian from Collabora at #LiboCon pic.twitter.com/u0xpspHQCD
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 8, 2016
Miklos talked about collaborative editing using LibreOfficeKit:
Check out the screenshots of collaborative editing in #calc in #LibreOffice Online! pic.twitter.com/xpOQaDrmt4
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 8, 2016
Time for some group photos!
#LiboCon group photo! pic.twitter.com/VqmdayDv19
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 8, 2016
#Libreoffice group picture of the ones that were there from when it all begun. #libocon pic.twitter.com/smchQWKqX8
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 8, 2016
We closed the day with yet another party, now at the restaurant/bar Charlie’s square in the city center of Brno. Great food and music, but the best were the people!
#libocon party at Charlie's square pic.twitter.com/Aifcm8RWZM
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 8, 2016
Friday, Sept. 9th – LibreOffice conference day 3
The last day Collaborians Kendy, Olivier, Ashod and Andras had talks, as well as some Collabora partners.
Talk from our partner from the Netherlands, Cor Nouws from Nou&Off:
Our Dutch partner @cor4office gave a very interesting talk about #LibreOffice #interoperability at #libocon pic.twitter.com/QzmAJkc8gM
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 9, 2016
Talk from our partner from Japan, Shinji Enoki from iCRAFT:
Our Japanese partner, Shinji Enoki from iCRAFT, talks at #libocon about their amazing work on #LibreOffice in #Japan pic.twitter.com/jR3kcbHAiC
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 9, 2016
Collaborian Olivier gave an introduction about LibreOffice Online, followed by a session of deep diving into LibreOffice Online by Ashod:
Olivier Hallot from Collabora gives an introduction to #LibreOffice #Online at #libocon pic.twitter.com/E06nRbMtwa
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 9, 2016
The most retweeted tweet of the conference. In the talk of Ashod, the first ever live demo of collaborative editing in LibreOffice Online was shown!
The first ever live demo of full collaborative editing in #LibreOffice Online has been just shown at #libocon! pic.twitter.com/q3b2tMCG2Y
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 9, 2016
Presentations of the Google Summer of Code LibreOffice projects, of which Collabora Productivity team members were among the mentors:
Thanks to all #GSOC16 students and mentors for all their great work on the #LibreOffice project! #libocon #GSOC pic.twitter.com/Yp2T53Ymu8
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 9, 2016
And the end of the conference. In the last talk it was revealed that the next conference will be held in Rome!
The #LibreOffice conference has come to an end. Thanks everybody! Next year we'll be in #Rome! #libocon pic.twitter.com/j9vk1Bczpp
— Collabora Office (@CollaboraOffice) September 9, 2016
Conclusion
This has been a great event. Talks were very interesting, well attended and there were a lot of amazing social events. The organization of the event did a great job (thanks a lot!) and we hope that the next event, in Rome, will be as amazing as this one!