LibOCon 2017 Call for Papers

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The Document Foundation invites members and volunteers to submit
proposals for papers for the conference in Roma. Whether you are a
seasoned presenter or have never stood up in public before, if you have
something interesting to share about LibreOffice, we want to hear from you!

Proposals should be filed by August 15th, 2017 in order to guarantee
that they will be considered for inclusion in the conference program.

The conference program will be based on the following tracks:

a) Development, APIs, Extensions, Future Technology
b) Quality Assurance
c) Localisation, Documentation and Native Language Projects
d) Appealing Libreoffice: Ease of Use, Design and Accessibility
e) Open Document Format, Document Liberation and Interoperability
f) Advocating LibreOffice

Business track:
– Enterprise Deployments and Migrations, Certifications and Best
Practices, Building a successful business around LibreOffice.
– Round table with company representatives
– Small local businesses, governments and non-profits, to be conducted
in Italian language

Presentations, case studies, workshops, and technical talks will discuss
a subject in depth, and will last 30 minutes (including Q&A). Lightning
talks will cover a specific topic and will last 5 minutes (including
Q&A). Sessions will be streamed live and recorded for download.

Please send a short description/bio of yourself as well as your
talk/workshop proposal to the program committee address:
conference@libreoffice.org

If you do not agree to provide the data for the talk under the “Creative
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License”, please explicitly state
your terms. In order to make your presentation available on the TDF
YouTube channel, please do not submit talks containing copyrighted
material (music, pictures, etc.).

If you want to give multiple talks, please send a separate email for each.