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Collabora Productivity attended the LibreOffice Conference 2016 and it was amazing. The event was held in Brno. This easy to reach city is a technological hub in the Czech Republic and it boosts many tech companies, such as RedHat. In order to show our support for the LibreOffice project and for this event, we became one of the Main Sponsors.
Tuesday, Sept 6th – Team day
Great weather and the perfect time for a team day. With the team we went to “Lanové centrum PROUD – Brno”, where we had to work together to pass the most difficult rope challenges, at a dizzying height. A truly amazing experience everybody enjoyed a lot!
Afterwards, it was time for a nice dinner with the team, followed by a drink with the LibreOffice Conference attendees at the LibreOffice Conference venue, the campus of the Faculty of Information Technology at the Brno University of Technology.
Wednesday, Sept. 7th – LibreOffice conference day 1
The first day of the event was packed with talks. At 9:00am the opening sessiones started and after lunch, Collaborians Tor, Pranav and Tomaz had their talks.
The opening of the event:
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/773420729618599936
Michael’s keynote at the opening session:
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/773463247261401088
Our goody for the attendees was a cool Collabora Productivity watch! A big success, because many people wore them and mixed and matched colours. At the end of the event there were no watches left.
https://twitter.com/deneb_alpha/status/773490061103030273
Talk of Pranav:
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/773515943549042692
Tomaz’s talk:
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/773538795929104384
In the evening it was time for a party! We all went to the offices of RedHat:
https://twitter.com/floeff/status/773574241199546368
Hacking on LibreOffice at the offices of RedHat:
https://twitter.com/HeikoTietze/status/773579176683171841
Thursday, Sept. 8th – LibreOffice conference day 2
The second day started nice and early. Although many attendees were hacking until late the day before, talks were still very well attended. This second day our team members László, Ashod, Miklos, Olivier and Andras had talks.
Everything about graphic design with LibreOffice and LibreLogo at the talk of László:
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/773794007994535936
Ashod at his talk:
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/773803028877086720
Miklos talked about collaborative editing using LibreOfficeKit:
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/773826903627141120
Time for some group photos!
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/773887657109811200
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/773893571581796352
We closed the day with yet another party, now at the restaurant/bar Charlie’s square in the city center of Brno. Great food and music, but the best were the people!
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/773951216883752961
Friday, Sept. 9th – LibreOffice conference day 3
The last day Collaborians Kendy, Olivier, Ashod and Andras had talks, as well as some Collabora partners.
Talk from our partner from the Netherlands, Cor Nouws from Nou&Off:
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/774156438109167616
Talk from our partner from Japan, Shinji Enoki from iCRAFT:
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/774158782716796928
Collaborian Olivier gave an introduction about LibreOffice Online, followed by a session of deep diving into LibreOffice Online by Ashod:
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/774185510436601857
The most retweeted tweet of the conference. In the talk of Ashod, the first ever live demo of collaborative editing in LibreOffice Online was shown!
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/774193749916344321
Presentations of the Google Summer of Code LibreOffice projects, of which Collabora Productivity team members were among the mentors:
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/774225609409126400
And the end of the conference. In the last talk it was revealed that the next conference will be held in Rome!
https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice/status/774264207877505024
Conclusion
This has been a great event. Talks were very interesting, well attended and there were a lot of amazing social events. The organization of the event did a great job (thanks a lot!) and we hope that the next event, in Rome, will be as amazing as this one!
