Sponsors of the event include Canonical, Red Hat, and Univention

Oct 17, 2012 12:34 GMT  ·  By

The Document Foundations has opened the 2nd LibreOffice Conference, addressing the authorities and the community members gathered in the capital city of Germany from the five continents.

“As of today, LibreOffice is being used by close to 60 million people. It is the standard free office suite on all major platforms, available in over 100 languages,” said Florian Effenberger, chairman of the Board of The Document Foundation.

He then went on to say, “Large cities and organizations are deploying it very successfully, more and more schools and universities are rolling it out, and there’s not a single month where it is not covered by major media around the globe – because we always have good news to share.”

LibreOffice Conference 2012 is hosted by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology of the Federal Republic of Germany, and Freies Office Deutschland e.V.

The sponsors of the event are Canonical, SerNet, bitbone, Lanedo, Red Hat and Univention. The main conference sessions will be broadcasted online, while all sessions will be recorded and made available on the conference website.