LibreOffice Conference 2013

Milan, September 9, 2013 - LibreOffice Conference will officially open in less than three weeks at
the University of Milan, on Wednesday, September 25. The opening session will be held in the
historic Ca' Granda building, while all technical sessions and tracks will be hosted by the
Department of Computer Science. The conference is sponsored by Canonical and Collabora, while
Google and CloudOn sponsor the live hackatons happening on Wednesday and Thursday evening, and
Lanedo the food for the breaks. The conference will close on Friday, September 27, with the
traditional Q&A session, where project members can ask questions to the Board of Directors.

Tracks will cover the Open Document Format (ODF); LibreOffice Development; Community Development;
Best Practices for Deployments and Migrations; and Building a Business with LibreOffice. For the
first time during a conference, there will be a chance of sitting together with LibreOffice
developers to hack the code, or just discuss the next feature.

"LibreOffice Conference comes to Italy at the right time, as during 2012 and 2013 there have been
several migrations to LibreOffice in the public administrations, at regional and local level", says
Italo Vignoli, a member of the board of directors of The Document Foundation and the leader of the
conference team. "Meeting with the project members will encourage other public administrations and
enterprises to undertake the migration to LibreOffice".

LibreOffice Conference 2013 is hosted by the Department of Computer Science of the University of
Milan (http://www.dsi.unimi.it/) and sponsored by Canonical (http://www.canonical.com) and
Collabora (http://www.collabora.com), while Google (http://www.google.com) and CloudOn
(http://site.cloudon.com/) sponsor the hackatons, and Lanedo (http://www.lanedo.com) the food for
the breaks.

Conference sessions will be broadcasted online, and also recorded and made available on the
conference website.

About The Document Foundation (TDF)

The Document Foundation is an open, independent, self-governing, meritocratic organization, which
builds on ten years of dedicated work by the OpenOffice.org Community. TDF was created in the
belief that the culture born of an independent foundation brings out the best in corporate and
volunteer contributors, and will deliver the best free office suite ever. TDF is open to any
individual who agrees with its core values and contributes to its activities, and welcomes
corporate participation, e.g. by sponsoring individuals to work as equals alongside other
contributors in the community. As of June 30, 2013, TDF has 159 members and over 3.000 volunteers
and contributors worldwide.

Media Contacts

Florian Effenberger (based near Munich, Germany, UTC+1)
- Phone: +49 8341 99660880 - Mobile: +49 151 14424108
- E-mail: floeff@documentfoundation.org
Charles H. Schulz (based in Paris, France, UTC+1)
- Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org
Eliane Domingos de Sousa (based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UTC-3)
- E-mail: elianedomingos@documentfoundation.org - Skype: elianedomingos
Italo Vignoli (based in Milan, Italy, UTC+1)
- Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: italo.vignoli@documentfoundation.org
- Skype: italovignoli - GTalk: italo.vignoli@gmail.com

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Italo Vignoli - The Document Foundation
mobile 348 5653829 - italo@documentfoundation.org
skype italovignoli - gtalk italo.vignoli@gmail.com