It will be hosted by the Faculty of Information Technology

Oct 12, 2015 21:00 GMT  ·  By

On October 12, The Document Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes and governs the open-source LibreOffice office suite loved by numerous Linux users around the globe, published details about next year's LibreOffice Conference event.

LibreOffice Conference is one of the most important events in the LibreOffice community, as users, developers, and members of the press gather together for a few days to plan the next steps in the evolution of the acclaimed open source office suite used in numerous GNU/Linux distributions around the world.

Therefore, we're happy to inform you that the LibreOffice Conference 2016 event will take place between September 7 and September 9, and it will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, at the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology. The event will be organized in collaboration with Red Hat Czech and OpenAlt.

"The Brno University of Technology is one of the largest and most influential IT universities in the Czech Republic. OpenAlt is a Czech not for profit organization which promotes the free software ethos and culture in the country. Red Hat Czech is a software development lab with over 700 employees (the largest development facility within the company)," says The Document Foundation in the press release.

The internal meetings will take place on September 6

Several members of the LibreOffice community will be there a day earlier to participate in a series of internal meetings, where they will plan the LibreOffice Conference 2016 event, including the talks, interviews, and everything else that matters, so that the entire event will run as smoothly as possible.

The local LibreOffice Conference team will be composed of Miloš Šrámek from the LibreOffice community, Jiří Eischmann, Jan Štafa, and Jaroslav Řezník from Red Hat Czech and OpenAlt, as well as Jiří Beránek and Jan Pacner from Open Alt. Be there if you care about the future of the LibreOffice office suite.

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