Will focus on businesses and LibreOffice certifications

Feb 19, 2019 17:22 GMT  ·  By

The Document Foundation published today more information on when and where the first ever LibreOffice Asia Conference event will take place this year.

LibreOffice Asia Conference 2019 will be the project's first conference event to take place in a country in the Asia region where the free and open source software movement is rapidly growing. The Document Foundation decided it's time to put together a conference in Asia after the massive success of the LibreOffice Conference Indonesia 2018 event.

"It’s a real leap of faith," says Franklin Weng, an Asian member in the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation. "Asia is a rapidly growing area in adoptions of ODF and LibreOffice, but our ecosystem for LibreOffice and FOSS has not been good enough yet. In this conference, we’re not only trying to make the FOSS ecosystem in Asia more healthy but also to encourage Asian community members to show their potential.”

LibreOffice Asia Conference 2019 will take place on May 25-26 in Nihonbashi

The Document Foundation and members of the Japanese LibreOffice community have already decided on the dates and place when the first-ever LibreOffice Asia Conference will be held. Therefore, mark your calendars for LibreOffice Asia Conference 2019 on May 25-26 in the very center of Tokyo, Japan, in Nihonbashi. The event will be held at Cybozu, Inc. Tokyo Office and the call for papers will be launched later in February.

The main focus of the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2019 event will be business workshop, CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) hackfest, LibreOffice Certification Interview, and Asia local certification for LibreOffice. Each session will be hosted by elite LibreOffice members, including Italo Vignoli, Lothar Becker, Mark Hung, Franklin Weng, and Eric Sun. More details are available in the press release.