ESC meeting minutes: 2023-11-16

[Olivier Hallot]

For the records, my summary was short for some important information on 
LATAM 2023 Conference

+ Svante Schubert from allotropia on WASM (thanks to allotropia)
+ Henry Castro from Collabora (thanks to Collabora)
+ Mauricio Baeza for the workshop on writing Python scripts for LibreOffice
+ Daniel Rodiguez on interoperability for fonts + LibreOffice Online.
+ Celia Palacios (@lobaluna) on Social aspects of FOSS
+ Gabrielle Ponzo on TDF
+ Juan José Gomez (TDF team) for the website
+ Full program at https://latam.conference.libreoffice.org/2023/

Kind regards
Olivier


On 11/16/23 12:42, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> * Present:
>      + Olivier, Caolan, Cloph, Heiko, Hossein, Ilmari, Michael W, 
> Regina, Michael S, Gabriel, Stephan, Stéphane, Miklos
> 
(snip)
> * LATAM conference (Olivier)
>    + had workshops & presentations on LibreOffice & LibreOffice Technology
>    + Henry presented some technical aspects of Collabora Online & 
> LibreOffice Technology
>    + also Xisco gave workshops on QA & building LibreOffice
>    + lots of students were attending
>    + largest university in Mexico City was hosting the event
>    + also the birthplace of the GNOME project
>    + also had an opportunity to see what's happening in China/Taiwan
>      + presented their LibreOffice Online fork
>    + huge demand in terms of public administration
>      + also in the private sector
>      + LibreOffice is not very well known
>    + overall: was much better than expected, 100s of students attending
>      + lots of great questions
>      + shows interest
>      + making follow-up with them to bring them into the development
>      + at least contribute to the code -> academic value
>      + opportunity to visit the Mexicans
>      + surprised to see how interested they were
(snip)
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Olivier Hallot
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