 Okay, just a few words to start. For those here, thank you for coming. Of course, the time are not ideal for travelling. For many people that wanted to be here, or several people that wanted to be here, have not been able to, because of, in some cases because of restrictions, in other cases because of visa issues, and of course the geopolitical situation at the moment doesn't help at all in having good relationship between countries. We have good relationship between people, but unfortunately we not always have good relationship within countries. In some cases, and I apologize for us being Italian, I know that there have been people that have not got the visa because the embassy told them we don't have time for appointments for meetings for the visa until December, which is completely bullshit, sorry. It's better to say until December that we are not giving visa to people from this country because of political situation. At least it's transparent and it's the reality. Just hiding behind, we don't have time until December is, I think it's even worse because people do not get, they understand the situation, so they would understand maybe even if they don't like the political decision, but in that other way it's really, it's like a joke. And so I apologize for the people that cannot be here and because of these silly situations. I would like to have everyone here because the Italians are welcoming people in general and therefore it would have been nice to have everyone in this room, or at least everyone that wanted to be in this room to be here today. And for those here, thank you for the people that are seeing us streaming. Welcome to the conference as well. I hope you can enjoy the conference. We will try to make it as easy as possible for you to interact with us. But we have the Telegram channels. You know that we, you know our emails, you know the emails of the people that are here if you have any issue. If you write to any one of us, we will try to solve the problem if there is a problem in interacting with us in seeing the streaming in technology or something like that. If you have a question, send a question. Not to me because I'm speaking, not because I don't want to see the questions, but for the other people that are here and you know many of them, send your questions. If you have them, we will be happy to answer them in the best possible way. Of course, thank you for the sponsors. So the two main sponsors are Allotropia and Collabora. But we have two other companies, Passbolt and NetService. Their logos are smaller because their contribution is a little bit smaller. But of course it's important as well. And of course the Document Foundation is in fact the main sponsor of the conference. And for the first time, this will be the LibreOffice Technology Conference because we announced the concept of the LibreOffice Technology last year, and this is the first conference where I hope people will show their advance that contribute to the LibreOffice Technology. The concept is rather easy. LibreOffice was born as a desktop application. Today just a desktop application doesn't make... It makes sense, but just alone it doesn't make sense anymore. So LibreOffice luckily is a platform on top of which you can develop different applications for different operating systems for different platforms. So the reality is that we have LibreOffice from different sources for Android, for iOS, for online. Of course there is always space for improvement and have them on even more platform operating systems. But I think if we work together we are in the right direction to achieve the objective which is to provide the best open-source platform for personal productivity. So not just a software but a platform that is the technology or the engine for the different software that run on the different platforms. So this is about LibreOffice Technology. Of course welcome to Milano, or Milan if you prefer. I'm, as I said yesterday, although I'm the one that lives in the city or close to the city, I'm not from Milano. I've been living here for 54 years which is quite a few weeks. But there is one person that was born in Milano. I don't see Paolo, but Paolo Pelloni. So if you have to complain about Milano complain with Paolo and not with me. Okay. A few logistic information. The conference agenda and the venue map are on the conference website. These, if you are here so you've already reached the conference but for the people that will be here tomorrow and on Saturday. During the conference there will be people taking pictures of participants. We will use them on TDF property. No Instagram, no Facebook, no fancy social media. Maybe Twitter and LinkedIn. And on the annual report. So if you have issues in being in a picture that will almost never be only of you but of the group please tell us. We will try to take care of not using that picture for these publications. Every day at 1pm people that were here yesterday already know that we will have lunch boxes coming in, food is vegan. There's no real issues for anyone. Once you have finished and today we will have the lunch boxes in the foyer which is just you get out from those two doors on the left and the right not from the door upstairs. The foyer is there and we will have the lunch box in the foyer and on Saturday as well. Once you have finished your lunch box everything is recyclable so you have to separate paper and plastic. The boxes are all paper even if you see transparent it's not plastic that is paper. And then you have plastic which are the cutlery the bottle of water and the glass. So we should separate them. It's not a huge problem if you mix them up so that the good citizen is even better. Friday before lunchtime we will take a picture of all participants. I think the best place to do that is in Piazza San Fedele in front of the church or in front of Palazzo Marino which is on the opposite side of the square. Then we will decide but we will tell you tomorrow if we get it before the lunch box or after but it's a matter of minutes. We go there we take a picture and then we eat. And every speaker should remember to send either Sophie or me the slide for publication because we will not get all the slides for publication here and we need them to populate the website. Tonight, community dinner so you finish here at 6 or 6.30 you can take it easy because we will start at 7. From Duomo you have to go to Metro Duomo Piazza del Duomo it's easy if you don't know where it is but not seeing the Duomo in Milano it's a really difficult task so in front of the Duomo you have the Metro you go to the yellow line it's Metro 3 Metro 3 yellow line remember yellow that's easy you take it in direction San Donato and get out at Lodi-Tib it's a stop Dibbi's Tecnomasio Italiano Braumboveri it's a very old industry making turbines of course it's not anymore in the city today but it's called Lodi-Tib historically so from Lodi-Tib you will see on one side a kind of bridge it's a bridge over the over the rails you go in the direction of the bridge and the bridge is basically what you see the first line then you get Via Brembo and Via Benaco and you get to that point there will be outside a LibreOffice roll up so you won't be missing it Metro and on foot is half an hour so take it easy when you get there there will be something to eat, not the pasta because we will start cooking pasta when everyone is there but you will have something to snack everything because you are in Italy of course everything is Italian so no McDonald's, no Burger King no Kentucky Fried Chicken if you are really eager to get one of these you should source them during the while walking and we will accept you with your McDonald's bag and for dinner if you really want to be intoxicated if you want to eat decent food is probably better to get pasta and someone knows the recipes please do not tell, some Italians know the recipes, please don't tell the recipes to the other people they should be a surprise in any case there will be three vegan one vegetarian and two with meat so there should be enough for everyone the amount of pasta per person that we have is 300 grams which is I would say quite enough and then we have five kilos of Taralli and Scaldatelli to start and beer beer will be from a micro brewery in Milano and the word brewmaster will serve the beer so if you want to it speaks fluent Spanish, not a lot of English so you can ask the Spanish people can ask him about how he brews the beers we will have a lager and a Belgian style beer if I tell you the names the names are fancy names invented by him so there's nothing I'm not telling you anything that you know so some sightseeing suggestions Milano that is of course if you have some time to spend around the city I would suggest to visit these are probably the most interesting things to see Duomo is very close and Galleria Victoria Emanuele are extremely close to our location they are just behind Teatro La Scala is on the square behind Palazzo Marino which is the palace that you have on while getting out of Piazza San Fidel on your right then you have two museums Pinacoteca is means Museum of Paintings it's an old word there are also libraries so these are 16th century libraries which you can you can visit the castle is nice outside and inside it's there are several museums if you go there my suggestion is to see Michelangelo's Pietaron Danini he's the last masterpiece of Michelangelo he was close to he died a few weeks after it's unfinished he died while he was finishing the statue then you have Sant'Ambrosio and Sant'Eustorgio they are the two brothers Sant'Ambrosio is the protector of Milano and Sant'Eustorgio was his brother they are two beautiful churches and San Lorenzo Maggiore was the Roman church of the imperial palace Milano was the capital of one part of the Roman empire and San Satiro which is very close to Piazza del Duomo is an architectural masterpiece of Bramante there is a lot more if you are curious about Milano you can ask me half of my studies were on history of art so I know rather well the city and what you can see on Saturday afternoon we can organize some walking tour we already did it for the previous Milan conference so we can do something different we can do the same I don't know one of the ideas was to go to the two other people that will not get lunch because they are shy and they are behind the camera so people in front of the camera will get lunch people behind the camera will not get lunch so Lotar wants to is on a diet and therefore is okay on Saturday afternoon we can discuss and organize a walking tour one of the idea was to go to the new part of Milano so the new architecture also because there there is a supermarket where you can it's a high level supermarket where if you want to get back some food from Italy I've heard people want to bring back Parmesan cheese that is a place where you can get you have different choices you can get not only food you can get whatever it's called Italy it's the largest Italy in the world here in Milano it's you can find them in other places there is an Italy in Paris an Italy in Berlin but the one in Milano of course has more choice and I think this is all for the welcome and introduction again welcome to everybody if you have questions now I think we have some time before we start at 10.30 or even before the opening session no questions yeah from Trier he was so Lotta is happy because he's from close to Trier yeah absolutely I'd like to add a thank you to you Italy for organizing all this you were doing this you were doing this lesser more alone on site and with as we know quite challenging circumstances so thank you very much for making it possible to have the first in-person conference after three years thank you very much thank you but it was a pleasure and unfortunately we have some limitations people asked for instance why we have not organized a hack night it's really difficult because if you have food we'll accept that you meet in a number of people if you don't have food and you say we are hacking software and they look at you and say what you're doing so hacking software is not a human activity which is partially true but okay so next year probably hopefully the pandemic will be even more under control have again a hack night this year was really impossible I tried to find places but everyone has told me it's not the way to organize it for the dinner luckily you will see the location tonight is actually I being Italian of course I'm flexible let's say so the tonight you are all learning how to cook pasta because that was the trick so it's a learn it's not that I'm cooking a new reading but it's that we are showing you how to cook pasta and therefore it's a training and we can have a training otherwise no way it's not a restaurant and no way you can get but because it's a kitchen school then you can organize a kitchen training a food training for people and this is no one will come and check but if someone checks and say no I'm learning how to cook pasta it's interesting I can print it no problem it's no value at all 7 7 30 but be I mean be relaxed the only thing at 11 30 not because I want you to go together way but because of the metro is better that at 11 30 you live because metro ends up the last metro starts just before 1 am so to be sure that you get to your places without risks is better that you live that at 11 30 so you have at least 1 hour in front of you for getting back to the hotel shouldn't be a problem metro at night is not as frequent as during the day but there is quite there are quite many so that is last but anyway tonight we will have time to discuss to change the schedule this is I mean we can check in the other room because all the all the settings are the same in the we have only in this room we have only the opening and closing sessions so basically apart from a couple of people Ilmarie and I don't remember who is presenting on Saturday but the majority of presentation is happening in the other room so the setting in the other 3 rooms are exactly the same one room is not used so we can use that room where there is an HDMI cable to check if the projector is compatible and then you have to move to the other room for the presentation that is possible yes is not ideal but let's say is the closest to what we can do questions no other questions every everyone is shy we should lose 12 minutes but usually are always running after the schedule and we are a lot in front ahead of schedule ah ok sure I forgot you see people that has not got the conference back with a t-shirt if you didn't get the probably you already got the badge Sofia the badge Sofia is the badge here in front for people that are missing their badge when we are in the other at the end of the session here you will have to get out of the auditorium you just turn right and so three times right and you get to Piazza San Fedele where there is the entrance of the other rooms for the afternoon and for tomorrow so when you are there if you ask one of the us, Sofia, me or we have conference bags with t-shirts so you can get your conference bag with t-shirt if you didn't get get it already and we didn't bring it here just because we should bring them back almost immediately so that's for the people that doesn't know him this is Armin yeah exactly because Paolo wanted to kill you I think because of impress and therefore okay so I don't know I mean I can tell you stories but okay no just a little bit about if you are interested about the history of this area you see several palaces so we are in the right in the center of Milan you see there is a mixture of new buildings and old buildings the problem is that Milan was ever bombarded during the Second World War luckily Duomo was damaged but not too much Galleria was damaged not the buildings but of course all the glasses were broken La Scala that you can see in Piazza della Scala was almost completely destroyed and many of the palaces around including where we are today were destroyed by bombs so they have been rebuilt in the 40s, 50s, 60s and this is the reason why you see there are mixed of very old in some cases and very new buildings Piazza San Fedele which is the place where there is the the back entrance of the conference center there is a church that was the church of the Milan's nobles families Duomo was the popular church was for everyone and actually the Duomo that you see today was built from the 13th to the 18th century so 13th is the ups and the 18th century is the façade that was finished in 1860 so it's really a fake Gothic façade was made during the romantic period San Fedele is the church where the really noble family were meeting and is the church that is just side of the meeting center the palace that you will see on the other side of the square was the house of a single family actually was the house of a single person that was a banker it's called Palazzo Marino because the family was the Marino's family and it was a banker so today is the seat of Milan mayor but if you look at the palace and you see how big it is you can realize how rich Milan was in the 15th, 16th century actually the Marino family was one of the first large bankers so they had the subsidiaries in London Paris and in other cities so it was a family but it was lending money basically to all the big countries in Europe behind Palazzo Marino you have La Scala and you will see that La Scala the front is still the original one Neoclassic but everything behind has been rebuilt several times because the first was built after the war was exactly as before so it was everything was wooden and the risk of fire was big and in fact there was a fire so now only the the internal room is with wood and is all treated to be antifier actually in the internal you can visit the Museo La Scala and as a part of the museum you can get into the Scala the Scala theater you will see it from the main from what was the royal the royal place in the center in the back and today everything you will see behind is all there is a big white cube inside that everything is completely automatic now so basically yes this is where they had all the machines before that were moved by people now everything is automatic everything is moved with a computer to avoid the risk because it's very high so there were people falling from 30 meters when they were doing it manually and just to finish if you get out of Piazza San Fedele on the right of the church so you just when you are in the you have the church in front of you you exit to the left and then you cross the road and after a few 100 meters on the left there is an arch that goes into a square that is Piazza Belgioioso and the Belgioioso family was another very rich family in Milano and that place is completely untouched since the 16th century just by chance was not it by any bomb so you still find the Palazzo Belgioioso and the house of Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Manzoni is a very famous writer in Italy was the author of Promessi's posi that is a big classic so that is an Eden treasure because no one knows it it's really Eden you cannot get there by car unless you live in Piazza Belgioioso which means that you are extremely rich and more or less Belgioioso cheese Quello Fanaterni Belgioioso cheese at Bel Paese Sima Bel Paese cheese is toxic please so don't never listen to Gabriele when he gives you suggestions about food because you already mixes up the names of the cheeses ah yes in front of the stock exchange there is a monument that is a little bit let's say as raised a little bit of concern when it was because it's a hand with a finger to the stock exchange if you are really curious you can go there but I wouldn't suggest it to lose your time to get there it's just for security they're just supposed for it's you know Piazza del Duomo is considered a strategic objective for someone that wants to make an attempt to people because there is always many people who are we as part of NATO's agreements we have to keep military presidium to avoid this kind of stuff I'm not sure that this avoids but you know these are the rules and yeah it's just let's say for security although I don't know if it's means really security but that is the same in in Piazza San Pietro in Rome and in other places which are considered to be potential areas of attack Piazza del Duomo of course if you see during a normal day is not really crowded now it's end of September but you can believe me in August it was in some cases difficult to walk in Piazza del Duomo and in the gallery and also the gallery is considered a potential because it's closed therefore we will always say but it's we have them for years we don't even notice them anymore because they're part of you know they're part of the of this scenario unfortunately they did the geopolitical situation affects everyone not in Italy at the moment we are lucky we didn't have any major strike but you never know yeah also but okay so let's start with the opening session this is again a welcome for everyone and again thanks to the conference sponsor and I think this is really and I invite here Torsten and Florian I don't know if they have anything to say but I have to invite them here so if you want I can dance but yes please it's not the best the best join that you will see yeah I don't think there's anything prepared so let me just join each other in welcoming you all it's so great to see so many of you in person again after those dreadful two years yeah it's brilliant and so relief and it makes me like feel very very positive and we have so many great talks already in the past three days and I look forward to many more until Sunday when I will be leaving yeah nothing much else to say from my side except like big thank you and also a very very large thank you indeed to the local organizers and the team from the foundation from TDF for setting this up like under very very very difficult circumstances very last minute change in venue which I think Italy mostly pulled off single-handedly maybe you use both hands I'm not sure about it but it looked very single-handedly so yeah just maybe another round of applause for that it's greatly appreciated but this time for real is the last one because I said already that in Rome but then because of the pandemics I had to make up my mind but this is for real the last one I will be 17 for this year the last one I can help others but it's a good way to lure good same from my side I'm glad to see all of you thanks especially to those who had a very long trip here for us it's still rather convenient it's still Europe which is a topic we want to address anyway but Europe is rather convenient and for some of you it was a really long trip and it's a completely different continent especially to those of you especially in these times that are still challenging my extended thanks that you took the way here to Milan I've seen many people from far away it's good to see you after that long time again very very happy that you took that burden so thanks a lot for that and of course again thanks to Italo for organizing that for running all that that was really rather hands free I mean you were doing everything locally with challenging conditions and that last minute change of location so thanks a lot for that and you definitely earned your merits in organizing conferences so glad to see all of you welcome and have a safe and good week to add to that I've just been talking to some of you and I just learned that some people here like traveled for two days just to echo Florian it is maybe you need to come closer you have to come closer it's very sensitive hello hello Mike if I talk from the side just to echo what Florian said and I was talking to a few and learned that some of you actually traveled for two days to come here and then it's another two days to come back and it's just I'm very grateful and it's an honor that you put that in for the project and for the conference the other thing that came to my mind while we're talking about conferences travel and all of that was this wonderful Latin America conference that took place in August I believe and organized by the Olivier and the Brazilian community if I'm not wrong and it was hugely successful like how many participants 300 something and I think that were a global community and that possibly having a liberal office conference on another continent but if we don't do that then at least having continue to have local conferences we also had in the past like Asia conference or in Japan local events and I think that's a model to continue in the face of perhaps continued challenges in traveling globally while at the same time as I said super happy and honored that people take it upon themselves to travel for such a long time and maybe next time for Latin America or Asia I can pull it off it was a bit of a challenge for me this year I really wanted to go to Brazil but then I was very grateful that Lota was jumping in and represented and represented let's say the European part of the project what else is there to say? There's always a lot of people working in the background I'm sure we'll forget many of them but also thanks to them just this morning we had Kilim around to make the video stream impossible Mike is sitting over here handing all the social media I think perfect then nothing to add the people I'll call the people in the different bodies so stand up so that people can see you I don't see Emiliano so Emiliano will be coming Paolo Paolo Vecchi Board of Directors Kendi you can say the rest of your name because it's Kor Laszlo and Gabor these are the directors and then we have Gabriel here and Ayan on streaming but he's in Turkey not able to attend then we have the membership committee this is the newly elected membership committee so we have Miklos Marina who is in Germany Gustavo I don't see Gustavo not yet here yesterday he had a bad night because of jet lag so maybe he's still sleeping a little bit Gabriele and Uwe then we have two deputies Shinji and Balas and then we have Ahmad in Indonesia and then the team Florian everyone knows Sophie then we have Klof in the aquarium there then we have Cisco somewhere Ilmarie Josein who is not here is the developer community he's on the stream then again in the aquarium we have Gilliam Olivier Michael and me ok that's the people in let's say the core team of TDF although I think that everyone is a core team member I forgot Stefan sorry Stefan apologies I need you I hold you a coffee at least sorry and I think everyone is really a member of our big and large team and we actually should learn to be more a global team than we are it's a challenge because it's a challenge we have the language is a challenge our different cultures are a challenge I think that this project and sorry for speaking too much but I I wanted to express some of my feelings about it when since we started this project I've learned an incredible amount of things about being in a global team and having respect for other cultures I frankly admit that my respect of several other culture was not the same in 2010 and that was my fault this was not the fault of the other culture was just my fault because I was very superficial in looking at the others and I think that the opportunity that we have with TDF of meeting people and in some cases of visiting other people countries for conferences is an incredible learning experience and in this I I try to remember you that we have a marketing budget we have the possibility of having grants for projects and therefore if you want to organize a local conference if you want to organize an event in your country don't be shy ask us even if you have just a basic idea we can work with you to improve the idea and make it a reality if you have something interest to tell others in other countries I think talk to our members in the other countries they will be happy to make it possible for you to visit and talk at this event for instance with Franklin in Taiwan I was able to have a talk at Coscap in Taiwan is the local free software event but it was important to be there because you learn a lot about their culture and their reality so this is an incentive for every one of you of course we all have a family a job and we have to mix our different duties but believe me it's a very important experience to be and visit other countries be with other people mix with other people at events because you learn you not only give but you take a lot in terms of culture and it's the oldest person in this room to tell you so if that is true for someone that has almost 70 years I think is true for everyone else because you can really learn a lot so last couple of things we have the conference schedule is online check it regularly because we may I hope not but we may have last minute changes it is reflected immediately if the page refresh the page because maybe you have the old version cached but you will always see the last the last version we also have the streaming and for the streaming so Emiliano the red one and Uwe is the white one I mean the red t-shirt white else because we showed everyone in the bodies and yesterday Mike published on the blog the links for the streaming so one of the links which is the link for this room will be the same for the main room in the afternoon we will move to for the people that is looking at the streaming we will move just behind this room in other smaller rooms the second one is another room we will have to set up the the streaming so maybe in the afternoon we will start a few minutes after 2pm we have already checked everything this morning so it should work without the big issues in the afternoon because the settings are the same maybe just one additional thing so if you don't have wireless access yet then poke one of the people who seem to have there is a code here there is a captive portal and the code and so can't obviously put this on the slide but digital is the master of the if there is not enough code or not enough bandwidth we can ask for another code then we have a conference application is available on google play and fdroid if you add it installed from last year it has updated automatically because the link to the application is the same and you can use the application to make your own agenda to follow the different talks no this the stream jits is not working sorry this is last year last year link I forgot to delete it youtube links we provide them at the last minute not because we we are bad people but because of technical needs we have to open the stream and it gives us the link once the stream is opened so we cannot have it before so it will be always some minutes before the session or the morning of the afternoon session starts the same please check the youtube links on a regular basis because they may change if we have a problem we have to create another link and therefore that can change communication channels we have two telegram groups one is LibreOffice conference main chat and the other is LibreOffice conference announcements and then we have the mailing list which is conferencegloballibreoffice.org I think is everything the lighting talk session it's a schedule for tonight at 5.30 can go up to 6.30 we have three talks schedule already so there is still quite a lot of room for other talks people interested in presenting should talk with Tostan that's me one hour before it starts so by 3.30pm maximum and also if you have a lighting talk after the conference please remember to send your slides to us and Shinji is arriving Shinji is from the membership committee and I think now again time for questions and then we have the two keynotes Harlotropia and Collabora and if we want to have a 5 minutes break I don't know what time is it we have 10 minutes so maybe we can have a short break unfortunately knockoff inside but just to make some gym for your legs and then Tostan will start