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LibreOffice at FOSDEM 2026

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FOSDEM 2026
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DatesJanuary 31 - February 01, 2026
LocationULB Campus Solbosch,
Brussels, Belgium
Websitehttps://fosdem.org/2026/

FOSDEM is the premier open source developers conference and the most significant developers' conference for LibreOffice after the annual LibreOffice Conference.

We also have a public chatroom called #fosdem2026:documentfoundation.org.

LibreOffice related Talks

There is no specific devroom for LibreOffice, but there are several presentations related to LibreOffice. The map of FOSDEM Campus is available on FOSDEM 2026 home page.

This is the list of LibreOffice related talks at FOSDEM 2026, sorted by time:

Saturday:

1. The challenges of FLOSS Office Suites
Michael Meeks
Track: Main Track (K-building)
Room: K.1.105 (La Fontaine)
Day: Saturday
Start (UTC+1): 13:00
End (UTC+1): 13:50

2. Collabora Office Can Finally Run on Mobile Linux
Skyler Grey
Track: FOSS on Mobile
Room: UB4.132
Day: Saturday
Start (UTC+1): 14:50
End (UTC+1): 15:00

3. Collabora Office - off & on collaboration
Michael Meeks
Track: Collaboration and content management
Room: K.3.401
Day: Saturday
Start (UTC+1): 15:15
End (UTC+1): 15:40

4. Collaborative slideshow with Collabora Online
Pranam Lashkari
Track: Collaboration and content management
Room: K.3.401
Day: Saturday
Start (UTC+1): 15:45
End (UTC+1): 16:00

5. Why our HTML Docs don't just `Print` and what to do about it
Nikolaj Potashnikov
Track: Tool the Docs
Room: UD2.208 (Decroly)
Day: Saturday
Start (UTC+1): 16:00
End (UTC+1): 16:25

Sunday:

6. LibreOffice and Collabora Online - how we managed to automate SBOM generation for a large legacy project
Thorsten Behrens
Track: SBOMS and supply chains
Room: UD2.208 (Decroly)
Day: Sunday
Start (UTC+1): 12:40
End (UTC+1): 13:00

7. Using CRDTs for collaborative commenting in your favourite free software desktop word processor
Michael Stahl
Track: Local-First, sync engines, CRDTs
Room: K.3.201
Day: Sunday
Start (UTC+1): 13:50
End (UTC+1): 13:55

Participants

To add yourself:

Booth

LibreOffice booth will be in building F (booth F-03), close to Nextcloud, Thunderbird and other desktop software.

  1. Florian Effenberger
  2. Heiko Tietze
  3. Olivier Hallot
  4. Mike Saunders
  5. Sophie
  6. Lothar Becker (Saturday morning til 1 p.m.)
  7. Gabriele Ponzo (better on mornings, need a seat)
  8. Andreas Mantke
  9. Gustavo Pacheco (better Saturday afternoon)
  10. Eliane Domingos
  11. Svante Schubert - love to go to AI & Rust dev rooms, pls dispatch ODF Standard/Toolkit ppl :-)
  12. Marina Latini

Community Dinner

Community Dinner will be at: Assettiti e Mangia, Rue des Bouchers 33, 1000 Bruxelles website on Saturday January 31, starting from 8PM (please arrive not later than 8:30PM)

Please register with your full name, nicknames are not accepted (unless they are like mine: italovignoli)

Important note: we have reserved for 60 people. Anyone after position 60 will be on a waiting list. Please add your mail address so we can contact you in case there is space available. And please remove your name before Saturday evening if you know that you can't come to leave room for others. Thanks! and happy to see you there :)

  1. Florian Effenberger
  2. Heiko Tietze
  3. Olivier Hallot
  4. Giulia Bimbi
  5. Sophie Gautier
  6. Andreas Mantke
  7. Marco Marinello
  8. Gabriele Ponzo
  9. Valerio Bozzolan
  10. Iolanda Pensa
  11. Michael Weghorn
  12. Neil Roberts
  13. Svante Schubert
  14. Edward Zimmermann
  15. Barbara Zimmermann
  16. Paolo Vecchi
  17. Pranam Lashkari
  18. Arnaud Versini
  19. Gustavo Pacheco
  20. Eliane Domingos
  21. Wanda
  22. Marina Latini
  23. Emiliano Vavassori
  24. Alain Modolo
  25. Sergio Zanchetta
  26. Blerta Mecani
  27. Matteo Martinelli
  28. Vincenzo Imperati
  29. Lorenzo Camilli
  30. Alfredo Di Maria
  31. Giulio Fieramosca
  32. Vincenzo La Spesa
  33. Ivan Gualandri
  34. Lorenzo Faletra
  35. Dario Camonita
  36. Lefteris Dimitrou
  37. Andrea Niri
  38. Mike Saunders
  39. Emanuel Di Vita
  40. Lorenzo Corsini
  41. Fabio Di Peri
  42. Andrea Flori
  43. Skyler Grey
  44. Méven Car
  45. Stephan Bergmann
  46. João Azevedo
  47. Stefano Pentassuglia
  48. Dario Bertini
  49. Tatiana Timofeeva
  50. Tor Lillqvist
  51. Alessandro Aneggi
  52. Dennis Roczek
  53. László Németh
  54. Daniele Scasciafratte
  55. Eugenio Petullà
  56. Marcello Masotto
  57. Valentina Nardecchia
  58. Davide Dozza
  59. Fridrich Strba
  60. Fabio Lovato

REGISTRATIONS FOR DINNER ARE CLOSED, ONLY WAITING LIST

  1. Moritz Duge
  2. Vissarion
  3. Christian Lohmaier
  4. St - TDF team
  5. Sarper Akdemir