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Milan, September 9, 2013 - LibreOffice Conference will officially open
in less than three weeks at the University of Milan, on Wednesday,
September 25. The opening session will be held in the historic Ca'
Granda building, while all technical sessions and tracks will be hosted
by the Department of Computer Science. The conference is sponsored by
Canonical and Collabora, while Google and CloudOn sponsor the live
hackatons happening on Wednesday and Thursday evening, and Lanedo the
food for the breaks. The conference will close on Friday, September 27,
with the traditional Q&A session, where project members can ask
questions to the Board of Directors.
Tracks will cover the Open Document Format (ODF); LibreOffice
Development; Community Development; Best Practices for Deployments and
Migrations; and Building a Business with LibreOffice. For the first time
during a conference, there will be a chance of sitting together with
LibreOffice developers to hack the code, or just discuss the next feature.
"LibreOffice Conference comes to Italy at the right time, as during 2012
and 2013 there have been several migrations to LibreOffice in the public
administrations, at regional and local level", says Italo Vignoli, a
member of the board of directors of The Document Foundation and the
leader of the conference team. "Meeting with the project members will
encourage other public administrations and enterprises to undertake the
migration to LibreOffice".
LibreOffice Conference 2013 is hosted by the Department of Computer
Science of the University of Milan (http://www.dsi.unimi.it/) and
sponsored by Canonical (http://www.canonical.com) and Collabora
(http://www.collabora.com), while Google (http://www.google.com) and
CloudOn (http://site.cloudon.com/) sponsor the hackatons, and Lanedo
(http://www.lanedo.com) the food for the breaks.
Conference sessions will be broadcasted online, and also recorded and
made available on the conference website.
Short link to The Document Foundation blog: http://wp.me/p1byPE-r2.