 So, welcome to LibreOffice Conference 2021. I'm really honored and it's a great pleasure to introduce this conference this year. Unfortunately, it is still online, and not in person, but as we were saying before, we hope to be able to have an in-person meeting next year. Let's hope so. In the meanwhile, I just wish you all to enjoy this conference, even if online. I can't say good morning because worldwide it's not morning everywhere. So, by the way, the very first session is the opening session. And I see all the speakers are connected and online. So, it's my, again, a pleasure to hand over to Italo Vignole, who is going to introduce the LibreOffice Conference 2021. Thank you. Morning, or have a nice day, everyone. Welcome to the LibreOffice Conference. Hopefully, your language is in this slide. Welcome, everyone, for three days with a lot of presentation. First, thanks to conference sponsors, Collabora and Allotropia, who are the two main sponsors, Linux Professional Institute. We will announce later the starting of a collaboration with Linux Professional Institute about certification and then Omnis Cloud and Carbone Io, who are also sponsoring the event. Thanks to them, although it's a virtual event, it is important to be backed by companies in any case. About the schedule, a few housekeeping information about the schedule, you can find the schedule at those links. At that link, you can download the mobile application for Android. To find the links, you can go to our blog during the last couple of days. We have published a post about the conference. You can find the active links there. In terms of streaming, we are streaming on YouTube and the conference website. The YouTube links are provided just before the starting of the conference. Please check them regularly and at least once a day as they might change. The current GC version does not work. This is for Mac OS users. It does not work with Safari. So if you have a Mac, you should use Firefox and Chrome. We have also discussion channels. The room channels are supposed to ask questions and comment the presentations. Then we have a main chat and we have a broadcast channel for the conference. The broadcast channel is only on Telegram, while the discussion channels are on Matrix, RLC, on Liberachat and Telegram. And now, switching to the information, a couple of numbers. There will be a session about the state of the project with more numbers tomorrow. This slide is from Statista. It's based on Analyst number. We are in 2021. As you see, our office with market is just over $25 billion. The estimate is that it will reach over $31 billion by 2025. It is this shows that it is a dynamic market. The growth is not huge, but is solid. And in any case, $30 billion is a quite significant figure. This slide is from September 2017 from a SpiceWork report. But Analyst numbers are more or less unchanged since then. As you can see, Open Source Productivity Suite have around 16% of market share. Of course, the numbers are higher than 100, because several users are using more than one software. But what is important is that the Open Source has quite an insizable market share. And based on recent discussion with Microsoft people, they have told, and this of course is not official, but it's just verbal, that LibreOffice is the most requested Open Source application from Windows 10 users. So this gives a good idea and a good perception of our positioning. And now let's talk about the project and the community. We had a last year, we had a rather large discussion about how the project is structured, managed, how it is sustained. So we have a big community and the community that are volunteers and there are ecosystem companies. Everyone, I would say that we are all important. Ecosystem companies are important because they allow LibreOffice to be in the enterprise world. Volunteers are important because they, and of course, by providing ecosystem companies, by providing features to the enterprise world also provide features to LibreOffice because their development is integrated into the master source code. Volunteers are extremely important because they are the active community of people contributing to LibreOffice. We have a large number of volunteers contributing to localizations. LibreOffice is the software that is localizing more languages worldwide, 119 available languages. We have volunteers contributing to documentation and documentation at the moment is following closely the announcement. We already have a couple of seven or two guys available just one or two months after the announcement and there is a large number of volunteers contributing to the user interface to graphic and doing marketing, doing advocacy at local level. Volunteers are key for the project and these are the numbers of the community based on our dashboard. So everyone can check these numbers over the last five years. As you, the blue bars are casual contributors, the purple bars are the regular contributors and the, I would say, reddish bars are the core contributors. As you can see, although there are seasonal variations, our community is rather stable. We have a number of regular and core contributors. We have a number of casual contributors that in some cases become regular or core in some cases do not but this is what is it with open source software. Some numbers to add that based on data from Git, ecosystem company sponsor developers provide 68% of activity on the source code and volunteers 28%. This is just quantity, it's not quality of course, the quality is outstanding for all contribution. Based on donation numbers, 90% are from individuals and 10% from small and medium businesses. This means that we don't have donations from large enterprise users and based on the data that we have, only less than 5% of all LibreOffice enterprise users and it looks like there are quite many are contributing back to the project and to contribute, they could donate, they could buy product or services from ecosystem companies and certified professionals. This does not happen as frequently as it should and this is one of the issue that we are facing and we are trying to overcome with actions in the marketing in the marketing plan. Again, these actions will be explained during tomorrow session. So who pays for LibreOffice development? 68% is paid by customers of ecosystem companies. These are enterprise customers but they are not as many as they should be. We know that there are banks and governments and other large institutions worldwide or an organization worldwide using LibreOffice. We do not expect all of them to pay for some development, to pay for some activities but we expect some of them doing this. 28% of development is provided by volunteers and paid by their own time. This is absolutely key. Here I mentioned just the UX localization and documentation but as I said, there are volunteers active in many other areas which are as key as these three areas. So this is just a hint of the data that will be shared tomorrow and now it's my pleasure to call Lothar Becker, the chairman of the Document Foundation for the opening address of the conference. Yeah, thank you. It's a lot. Let me switch on quickly the camera. I hope you can hear me and see me. Thanks to it. Hello, dear participants of our LibreOffice conference this year. My name is Lothar Becker and as chairman of the Document Foundation, it is a real pleasure for me to warmly welcome you all wherever you are participating in this conference. The most of you know that we normally do our conference as an in-person meeting but as we all discover another year of the worldwide pandemic, we decided once more to have an online version of the conference this year again after the one last year. I think we all miss hardly the opportunity to meet each other in person. Even if the possibility of the video conferencing are widely established now in the meantime, perhaps with this establishment even more. Because also with all the possibilities of virtual meetings, it is my impression that a personal handshake with another participant, a private talk about know-how or experience with LibreOffice or a spontaneous round of people about any common topic which arise during the conference or just a beer or a coke with an old good friend in our community is missed very hard. Besides the missing of all these in-person even local community activities, it was also hard for example for the board to have no opportunity in the whole term to meet in person and to be honest not every interpersonal effect could be covered by it but I think the annual report of the year 2020, our Jubilee year showed a variety of activities and contributions and as Italo showed in the numbers which filled the year instead of personal meetings and nevertheless it shows that it was one of the most successful year for the foundation and with that in the last year so also the organizers of this conference hardly worked again on all possibilities to have opportunities for joining virtually here here and in all talks and I want to encourage you not just to participate in the talks within a great and packed schedule but also to use the different opportunities to communicate with each other beside of the talks. There are possibilities we are chats via longs or asking questions during and after the talks to get in contact so for this let me thank the ORGA team here which is working for month to bring this on stage within all these circumstances. Sorry for not mentioning all of you with names which I probably do not know all so thanks to all of you for your passion to have this conference nevertheless online again. The team have also made some great videos of the main sponsors and there is a separate opportunity to meet them in private rooms for getting in contact. By the way also from my side let me say a huge thank you to our sponsors this year who made it possible again to join in this setting for the conference. Thank you to Collaborer, thank you to Allotropia, thank you to Linux Professional Institute and thank you Omnis Cloud and thanks to Carbon IO. Please visit their websites and get in contact with them for more information on the products and services or even for open job opportunities but let's also see the good side of such an online event. We have around 200 pre-registrated participants from all over the world even from time zones where the sessions now are held during the night. The amount of participants is probably the highest we ever have with our LibreOffice conference and this is a good sign. A good sign that we as an international community survive this really hard time of the pandemic and it will be a great basis for having in-person meetings again whenever this will be possible and wherever we will do it but all online? No, as a well-known saying of a tale, asterisks and obelisks there's a little resistant group of well-known community members who are meeting in person in Hamburg, the place where our roots of our beloved software were made. So best greetings to all participants in Hamburg. I tried also to come to Hamburg but out of private reasons I was not able to join. So I hope you enjoy also in Hamburg the conference and the personal meetup in Hamburg as well. Have a great time all of you at the conference. Thanks for taking part and now let the show begin. See you in the different sessions in the different rooms. Come together, have fun, be proactive and contribute. You all will rock it. Thanks and back to Ithalo. Okay thank you and I have the last announcement of the opening session. The opening session it's we promised to have logos for the LibreOffice technology and the LibreOffice ecosystem as part of our marketing plan and now you can see both of them. The author is the same is Elisa de Castro Guerra. I think she made a couple of proposals and other people made proposals and of course we thank you, we thank all of them for investing their time in developing these logos but I think that Elisa was able to really summarize the concept in one image using the LibreOffice icon and using it to represent the concept of technology which is unique to LibreOffice is the tight integration of the LibreOffice engine in every LibreOffice flavor. So we have the same engine on the desktop, on the cloud, mobile and different platforms and the fact that we have an ecosystem of equals which are represented here by the different number of LibreOffice logos but each one with its own characteristic as underlined by the different color of the triangle. Again thank you to all the people that have contributed to this logo contest. Thank you to Elisa. I sent a message to Elisa 10 minutes before starting the session because we really wanted to have this as a surprise to everyone. We will work during next week to produce the different version of the logo which are necessary to use the logo and we will announce it with a blog post where we also will explain how to use the logo and where to use the logo and of course everyone in the community is invited to use the LibreOffice technology logo while the LibreOffice ecosystem logo will be more for the ecosystem companies so companies that add value to LibreOffice by providing value-added services on top of it but trainers, migrators, developers, support organizations and there are quite many that will be able and invited to use this logo. Thank you again everyone for listening to this to this starting opening session.