Events/2017/AB17

Academic Informatics Conference held at the national level with the aim of introducing the information technology infrastructures, use, training and production in all dimensions, discussing them, sharing experiences and creating a common policy by bringing together related groups on information technologies.

Participants
Only the attendees who sent their license statements to the libreoffice developer list are included.

Booth
No LibreOffice booth in the conference.

Presentations
A generally informative presentation was done by Muhammet Kara in the first session (first half of the first day).

A small presentation about tools was done by Gökhan Gurbetoğlu in the second session (second half of the first day).

A two day LibreOffice hacking session, named LibreOffice Hacking 101, was conducted by Gökhan Gurbetoğlu and Muhammet Kara with about 20 participants.

An informative presentation about the LibreOffice Development Activities in Turkey was given by Gülşah Köse and Muhammet Kara on the last day (morning) of the conference, independently from LibreOffice Hacking 101.

Training Sessions
There were also training sessions towards LibreOffice development, which were conducted by Gökhan Gurbetoğlu and Muhammet Kara. In the second half of the first day, the attendees were introduced to the LibreOffice development environment and the tools used in the process (gerrit, vim, git, etc.). The attendees were walked through the process of joining the LibreOffice community and building the LibreOffice code for the first time.

Attendees who had relatively older computers were provided with SSH access to a 32-core machine, courtesy of TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM.

Hackfest
The last session (first half of the second day) was held like a hackfest by Muhammet Kara and Gökhan Gurbetoğlu. Questions of the attendees were answered by the speakers.

Stickers
We have prepared some stickers at home by using the existing designs on the marketing wiki page, and gave them out during the event.

After the Event


Muhammet Kara (7th from right), Gökhan Gurbetoğlu (5th from right), and the attendees of the training sessions


 * The participants were from different universities in different cities, and they were enthusiastic about LibreOffice. We were surprised by the attention.


 * We established a WhatsApp group to communicate with the participants during and after the event.


 * A tweet about the event with a photo: https://twitter.com/muhamm3tkara/status/829822271690833923


 * More photos of the event: https://www.dropbox.com/sc/jybxewpaw80qg9w/AAAhaxI_9pwyoXsbhlx21K_ca