LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024
Franklin Weng 翁佳驥 <franklin@slat.org>
The Document Foundation has organized the LibreOffice Conference annually since 2011. Except for online conferences held during the pandemic in 2020-2021, the events have always taken place in Europe. Therefore, the Asian community attempted to hold the LibreOffice Conference Indonesia in 2018, which was a huge success. Subsequently, the Asian and Latin American communities held the LibreOffice Asia and LibreOffice LATAM Conference respectively in 2019. The LibreOffice Asia Conference was paused due to the pandemic from 2020 and resumed in Indonesia in 2023.
Unlike the LibreOffice Conference in Europe, which focuses heavily on development agendas, the content of the LibreOffice conferences in Asia and Latin America emphasizes community building and promotion. For example, the LibreOffice LATAM Conference held in Mexico City in 2023 invited Franklin Weng, the president of the Software Liberty Association Taiwan, to share Taiwan’s promotion experiences and to exchange insights with the team promoting ODF/LibreOffice within the Mexican government.
This year’s LibreOffice Asia Conference will be divided into two main topics:
- The first day, Aug. 2, is “Government Day,” focusing on “Government Promotion and Implementation,” discussing theories, practices, and experience exchanges on implementing ODF and PMPC policies within government units.
- The second day is “Community Day,” centered on community sharing agendas. Co-organized with this year’s COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters), the agenda includes certified trainers from The Document Foundation in Taiwan sharing their teaching experiences and engaging in community management exchanges with international participants.
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