The LibreOffice Conference 2024 will take place from the 10 to the 12 October 2024 in Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg and will be preceded by an open day for the LibreOffice community member meetings on 9 October 2024.

Note: These notes are heavily based on my jurjey to the LibreOffice Conference 2024, community workshop and conference session. I write this post to note all my memory for the LibreOffice Conference 2024.

This year the Conference is not only a meeting point for the global LibreOffice community to but also an opportunity to welcome organizations and institutions creating, working with and promoting Free and Open Source Software.

Background: My journey with LibreOffice

LibreOffice is one of the good choise for organization that don’t have enough budget to buy software license. So I have decided to work as a volunteer for The document foundation since 2019. My role is working in localization for Lao and help to support LibreOffice community in Laos. This years I have decide to apply for travel suuport to attend my frist ever LibreOffice Conference. After I apply for travel suuport and then I got an invitation to attend The LibreOffice Conference 2024 from The document foundation. My journey have begun from travelling from Vientiane, Laos on 07 October and arrive Luxembourg on 08 October. This is a long travel around 10 thousand KM to attend this events.

Community workshop day!

The conferenece journey have begun. It’s my frist day in Luxembourge and the weather is quite good. I wake up and have a great breakfast at the hotel and then I go to look around the train station to catch the train to Belval. Since this is my frist time in Europe and I am not quite familia with transport system here but finally I catch the train I have arrive Belval and walk to Luxembuorge University. Now mystery have begin, It’s not easy to find a community workshop room because there is no sign that tell you. I start to find around 1 hours and can’t found luckyly I meet some other folks that come to attend community workshop day then we start to find the room together and finally we found it and we can attend the community workshop on time.

On the community workshop we have discuss as the following topics:

1. Introduction yourself.
2. Weblate user expereince.
3. LibreOffice Marketing stratigy.

Conference day 1!

Get up in the morning and have a breakfast at ibis Styles Luxembourg Centre Gare then go to Luxemburge Gare to take a train to Belval. Today the weather is so good for me. I love cool weather cause in Laos the waether is quite hot.

Riding traing to Esch-sur-AlzetteEsch-sur-Alzette and walk into red building.

The first day’s session began in the Auditorium room with an Opening Address by Eliane Domingos, followed by a Welcome Address by Serger Linkels.

After the opening address, the keynote was presented by Stéphanie Obertin, Minister for Research, Higher Education, and Digitalisation. Several sessions were then held in the Auditorium room, including:

• How Passbolt Found Its Market Fit Thanks to Open Source by Kevin Muller
• Open Source in Research – The SnT Way by Jacek Plucinski
• Ministry of the Economy Announcing the First OSPO in Luxembourg by Francois Thill
• A Gentle Introduction to Free/Open Source at the European Commission by Gijs Hillenius

In the afternoon session I have attended Cybersecurity (Room C1.03.05) and Open Sourse Workshop (Room C1.03.06) track as session below:

• An open source low-code/no-code lab to build your own ethical software applications by Ivan Alfonso
• ILR presenting SERIMA an Open Source tools for NIS2 compliance by Sheila Beker
• Kunai: An Open-Source Threat-Detection Tool for Linux by Quentin Jerome
• Ask us anything - openDesk on openCode - building sovereign software for the public sector by Alexander Smolianitski and Leonhard Kugler
• Enhancing Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure with Open Source: A Deep Dive into the Vulnerability-Lookup Project by Jean-Louis Huyen and Alexandre Dulaunoy

Conference day 1 have been finished and I have learn a lot of new open source development update in Europe and in Luxemburge that they will tranform a small nation to become a tech country. The conference have been cover many interested topic in cyber security field as well.