LibreOffice Conference 2023

The LibreOffice Conference 2023, known as LibOCon, was held in Bucharest and organized by myself and my team from 1&1 Development România Portal Products, in collaboration with the Computer Science Faculty at the Polytechnics University. LibOCon is an annual event dedicated to the open source project LibreOffice, where the project team and volunteers come together to discuss project challenges and opportunities, network, and have fun.

The my team of passionate engineers from 1&1 Development România Portal Products, responsible for the Online Office product, actively supports the open source community by integrating LibreOffice into their ecosystem and contributing fixes and improvements to the project. They took on the additional role of organizing the conference with the support of the university.

The conference brought together the LibreOffice open source community, including developers, translators, testers, and contributors from around the world. The event attracted both seasoned project veterans and newcomers, including students interested in learning how to contribute to open source projects and new LibreOffice users.

I take pride in what the entire team achieved with the conference, and it was an opportunity to further give back to the open source community, and the university. The guidance of the team of professors at the university shape the wonderful students into the next generation of software developers, and are a valuable source of talent for companies building development teams.