Lothar K. Becker
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Short biography speaker:
Lothar is a long term contributor in the free office productivity software since more than 20 years. The roots of his engagement and his company are in the early years of StarOffice and OpenOffice.org as world wide first service provider with Sun Microsystems with it. With a yearlong track record in the open source community and migration projects for public affairs and private sector he co-developed the certification activities around LibreOffice technology and is nowadays the co-chair of the certification committee. During the pandemic he was the chairman of the board of The Document Foundation, the home of LibreOffice. He also is a board member of the Open Source Business Alliance and lobbying for digital sovereignty in private sector and public affairs.
Accepted Talks:
Introducing LibreOffice Technology , THE Open Source Office Productivity Software and it’s awesome community behind
With LibreOffice of The Document Foundation and its predecessors its now over 20 years of free and open source office productivity in a open standard document format. It is “the” Open Source alternative to the proprietary world and even in cloud with LibreOffice technology it is the sovereign solution for private and public affairs sector. After a short look in the history of LibreOffice and the organisation of The Document Foundation the talk will show the modules and different parts of the technology for different devices live, as well as its interoperability properties. It will highlight the world wide presence with a community of volunteers and of eco system partners for addressing needs of professional deployments. Additionally there will be hints how to get involved in the community and become a part of the eco system.
Workshop: Starting to work with LibreOffice Writer and Calc
Lothar will show and give some examples in editing documents in Writer (Text) and Calc (Spreadsheet) of LibreOffice. The examples will be hands-on and as a workshop setting attendees should follow the editing steps in their own LibreOffice installation. We will discuss the document format of LibreOffice and how to use old documents from other office productivity suites. Main editing items and special features in formating and using both modules will be explained and shown for beginners. There will be the opportunity to ask questions and trying things out together.