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| <h3>OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2003) <br> March 20th - |
| March 21st 2003 <br> University of Hamburg, Germany </h3> |
| <p> Meet the community, users, and community sponsors at the |
| first OpenOffice.org Conference. The conference will take place right after |
| <a href="http://www.cebit.de/intro_channel_e.htm" target="_blank">CeBIT</a>, which ends March |
| 19th. Hamburg is only 100 miles (160 Kilometers) from Hannover. The conference |
| will attract some high-profile keynote speakers from the developer community, |
| European politics, the open-source movement, and our main sponsor, Sun |
| Microsystems, Inc. Confirmed keynote speakers are amongst others the Open |
| Source Advocate Mitchell Baker as well as the VP of Engineering of the Desktop |
| Solutions Group at Sun Microsystems Curtis Sasaki. The conference will include |
| some limited exhibition space.</p> |
| <p> Miguel de Icaza and Bruce Perens both say that |
| OpenOffice.org is THE most important Open Source project because people can try |
| it without switching from Windows and if they do they'll discover that Open |
| Source can work for them. They no longer have to pay big bucks for office |
| productivity.</p> |
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| "We applaud to see the many contributions from the community take |
| the openoffice.org project much further than we had anticipated so quickly. |
| It is a testament to the thousands of contributors in the community who want |
| to see an open, full featured office productivity suite available on many |
| platforms and in so many languages. I wanted to personally congratulate all |
| of you for your dedication and efforts to make openoffice.org a shining |
| example of the benefits of open technologies, open file formats, and an |
| open style of doing work." |
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| Curtis Sasaki, VP Desktop Solutions, Sun Microsystems |
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| <p> "I've seen the OpenOffice.org community evolve over the |
| last two years into a place where Sun and the community really do work together |
| towards the common goal of making office productivity available at low or no |
| cost to everyone. Their work is driving a lot of the interest in Open Source |
| that we're seeing now in emerging markets like India and China. It is my |
| sincere hope that more developers will show up to work on the OpenOffice.org |
| project so the community can really make it their own", says Danese Cooper, |
| Sun's Open Source Diva.</p> |
| <p>The conference will be the perfect place to exchange ideas |
| with other contributors or to meet face-to-face with people you have only known |
| from email.</p> |
| <p>The conference will cover the following OpenOffice.org |
| topics organized in two tracks: </p> |
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| <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#184090"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">General</font> |
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| color="#FFFFFF">Development</font></b></font></td> |
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| face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">General Usage and Features </font></td> |
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| face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Software Development Kit </font></td> |
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| <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Business and |
| Governemt</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Porting |
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| <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Marketing |
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| <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Localization |
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| <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Standards |
| (especially XML)</font></td> |
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| <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Filters |
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| <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Open Source |
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| <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Community |
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| <p>The two tracks of sessions are targeted at both users and |
| developers. The general sessions will talk about lessons learned during |
| migration and deployment, the OpenOffice.org roadmap, |
| standardization efforts |
| through OASIS and Open Source philosophy. Topics for developers cover the |
| overall process, QA, porting and localization as well as the new Software |
| Development Kit.</p> |
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| There were many paper submissions, far more than could fit into |
| the two days of the conference. We opened a third track for |
| Standards (esp. XML) at Thursday. |
| <br> |
| The <a href="schedule.html"><b>schedule</b><a> |
| gives an overview of the sessions <em>(Presentation slides are now avilable from the schedule)</em>. |
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| For registering as an attendee please go to |
| <a href="registration.html">http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/registration.html</a> |
| <br>The admission fee will be EUR 20 and will be collected at the event.</p> |
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| <p>Since not all key contributors of the OpenOffice.org project |
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| sponsor for their trip. Contributors who want to get sponsorship and companies |
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| <p>Companies that are interested in participating in the |
| conference as an exhibitor or sponsor can find registration details at |
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| <p>The OpenOffice.org Conference Team / Team OpenOffice.org <br> (with kind support |
| of organisations mentioned below)</p> |
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