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| <h2><font color="#184090">Abstracts of Conference Papers - |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>Marketing OpenOffice.org |
| in your country</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>Nick Richards <em>Co-Lead OpenOffice.org Marketing Project</td> |
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| <td>An overview of the past years progress expanding |
| into how to engage disparate national communities with |
| OpenOffice.org. Hints on who to talk to, why you'd want |
| to talk to them and suchlike. A seminar where 'best |
| practice' is shared.</td> |
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| <td><em>Biography: |
| Nick Richards is the Marketing Project Co-Lead at OpenOffice.org. |
| This means he gets in the way of programmers, asks lots of |
| questions and talks too much. He is in the final year of |
| a History degree at King's College London. |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>Migrating from Microsoft |
| Office to |
| Openoffice.org/StarOffice</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>Frank Gamerdinger <em>Product Specialist Desktop |
| solutions, Sun Microsystems, Germany, 85551 |
| Kirchheim-Heimstetten, Germany</em></td> |
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| <td>This session will discuss issues in migrating from |
| Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org/StarOffice.<br /> |
| An general overview of a migration project will be |
| given and some possible migration scenarios are |
| covered. The presentation will also discuss technical |
| details faced during migration.</td> |
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| <td><em>Biography: Frank Gamerdinger has worked in the |
| IT industry for XXX years. He has been a Java software |
| developer and freelance IT consultant and has written |
| articles for the German computer press.Joining Sun |
| Microsystems 4 years ago, he is now one if the |
| StarOffice product specialists in the Desktop Solutions |
| group, assisting strategic StarOffice and desktop |
| pilots.</em></td> |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>Where do we go from |
| here?</strong> The future of OpenOffice.org</font></td> |
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| <td>Louis Suarez-Potts <em>Community Manager, |
| CollabNet</em></td> |
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| <td>OpenOffice.org was conceived nearly three years ago |
| with the desire to join what seemed, in the late 90s, |
| to be a movement that would permanently change the way |
| software was produced. CollabNet, founded by Brian |
| Behlendorf of Apache fame and funded by a stellar |
| group, was contracted by Sun Microsystems to provide |
| the collaborative work environment for what was hailed |
| as the largest open-source project in the world.<br /> |
| No one expected success, at least not on the level that |
| we have seen. There was not even what would count as a |
| valid measure of success, when the project was |
| conceived. Open source held the promise of simplifying |
| software development, of allowing corporations to get |
| to market faster, and of generally improving the code. |
| All these have turned out to be true, albeit with some |
| qualifications (what counts as "get to market"?). But |
| no one anticipated that OpenOffice.org would engage the |
| millions of endusers it has and gain such an enormous |
| following outside USA's borders; and no one anticipated |
| that the infrastructure on which OpenOffice.org runs, |
| an early version of CollabNet's SourceCast, would be |
| able to handle a participant community of 90,000 |
| registered users and developers, working side by side, |
| collaborating trans-nationally.<br /> |
| This paper examines where we stand today in terms of |
| community organization, and involvement. It touches on |
| the present political and technical structure of |
| OpenOffice.org. It then moves on to discuss what the |
| future of the project may look like, from a |
| technological, community, and political perspective (by |
| "political" I mean a politics specific to |
| OpenOffice.org, not the wider world). This paper will |
| be of interest to anyone who is curious as to where |
| OpenOffice.org is going and how it is going to get |
| there.</td> |
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| <td><em>Biography: I have been helping to lead |
| OpenOffice.org since its inception, in October 2000. As |
| a consultant for CollabNet, which hosts OpenOffice.org |
| and several other Sun OSS sites, I have been able to |
| exploit my academic training and background. I received |
| my PhD in English from the University of California, |
| Berkeley, where I taught courses on nineteenth- and |
| twentieth-century U.S. and British culture. I am at |
| present working on two books, one, a study of the |
| difference corporate-sponsored open-source efforts have |
| made to the open-source milieu, and the other, a |
| refinement of my dissertation.</em></td> |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>What is the difference |
| between OpenOffice.org and |
| StarOffice?</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>Erwin Tenhumberg |
| <em>Product Marketing Manager, Desktop Solutions Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc.</em> |
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| <td>At trade shows and similar events the most |
| frequently asked question is <cite>What is the |
| difference between OpenOffice.org and |
| StarOffice?</cite>. The goal of this session is to |
| provide everybody who does marketing for OpenOffice.org |
| with detailed answers to this question. In this session |
| the attendees will learn what differences and |
| similarities exist between StarOffice and |
| OpenOffice.org concerning the functionality as well as |
| the support and service offerings. The presentation |
| will also give a brief overview about other derivative |
| products like RedOffice, KaiOffice or |
| OpenOfficePL.</td> |
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| <td><em>Biography:</em> |
| Erwin Tenhumberg is a Product Marketing Manager in the |
| Desktop Solutions Group at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Within this |
| group he mainly focusses on the developer aspects of both |
| OpenOffice.org and StarOffice[tm] including the SDK. |
| Erwin started working for Sun as a Systems Engineer in |
| Langen, Germany. There he did pre-sales for |
| various software products including StarOffice and SunRay[tm]. |
| Before Erwin joined Sun he worked for different companies where |
| he did Java consulting, software development and desktop |
| application administration and helpdesk.</em> |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>OpenOffice Instituted By |
| Computer Engineering Technology |
| School</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>John McLafferty <em>Instructor, Computer |
| Engineering Technology, Palliser Campus, Saskatchewan |
| Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Moose Jaw, |
| SK, Canada, S6H 4R4</em></td> |
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| I am an instructor in the Computer Engineering |
| Technology Department, Palliser Campus, of the |
| Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and |
| Technology in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan, Canada. It is a |
| 5 semester course (4 months/semester) with 3 |
| semesters of work terms. The course is accredited by |
| the Canadian Association of Technicians and |
| Technologists.<br /> |
| The decision was made more than two years ago to |
| teach OpenOffice (StarOffice initially) to all the |
| 1st semester students as an introduction to computer |
| applications. This also requires that the students |
| use OpenOffice when submitting required lab reports |
| and various homework assignments.<br /> |
| The Department was using the WordPerfect Office |
| suite. We were starting to have problems with license |
| and compatibility between versions. In addition, the |
| students were resorting to bootlegged versions of the |
| software for their home computers. The Department |
| goal was to have all the students use the same base |
| software so there would be no problems with some |
| having a spread sheet that didn't work right, and |
| others with spell check problems, and so on.<br /> |
| We had talked about doing something with the course |
| and the software for a while, but because we could |
| see a big job ahead of us, we did what anybody else |
| would do; hope that the college would buy us out for |
| retirement. As it turned out, the decision was made |
| for us. We got a list of the number of students |
| coming into 1st semester and looked at our computer |
| labs. Another lab was needed and we had 3 days and no |
| software budget. The Department had some experience |
| with Linux and I had been using StarOffice from the |
| moment Sun released it. The decision was made; we |
| rolled out StarOffice/OpenOffice and Linux.<br /> |
| None of the horror stories that would be expected |
| from making a total change in office application and |
| operating system software occurred, but we were |
| totally surprised by some of the unexpected things |
| that happened. For example, the initial apathy by the |
| students, and the apprehension of going into a |
| "Microsoft Free Zone" |
| computer lab.<br /> |
| Nothing is harder on a computer lab than 1st |
| semester students who think they know what they are |
| doing. The lab required some attention for the first |
| week with permission and password problems; after |
| that, it was virtually maintenance free.<br /> |
| I plan on adding more open source software (MySQL |
| and PHP) to the 1st semester course next |
| September.<br /> |
| Session Description: |
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| <li>Reasons for choosing OpenOffice for use in a |
| high technology course.</li> |
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| <li>How Open Office was implemented.</li> |
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| <li>Unexpected surprises encountered.</li> |
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| <li>Why we would do it again the same way.</li> |
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| <td><em>Biography: I am an Instructor with the |
| Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and |
| Technology in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. I have |
| been involved with teaching and consulting in the Micro |
| processors, Computers and Software fields since I saw |
| my first 4004 chip. The Computer Engineering Technology |
| department of SIAST, myself, and all the instructors |
| have been proactive in the use of open source software |
| and including this software in our courses. Because of |
| the success that I have had with open source software, |
| I have been promoting its use in other departments |
| within the college and also within education and |
| business in general.</em></td> |
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| <td bgcolor="#184090"><font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>The |
| OpenOffice.org developer survey - |
| first results, findings and next |
| steps</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>Erwin Tenhumberg <em>Product Marketing Manager, |
| Desktop Solutions Group, Sun Microsystems, |
| Inc.</em></td> |
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| <td>Together with the beta release of the |
| OpenOffice.org SDK we started the first developer |
| survey on OpenOffice.org. The goal of the survey is to |
| determine what interest developers have in |
| OpenOffice.org and what tools they prefer for their |
| work. In addition the survey will help to improve the |
| quality of the SDK.<br /> |
| In this session we will have a close look at the first |
| results and try to interpret the different numbers. |
| During the session we will also discuss what questions |
| should be added to future developer surveys. Besides, |
| we will try to draw first conclusions an think about |
| necessary next steps.</td> |
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| <td><em>Biography: Erwin Tenhumberg is a Product |
| Marketing Manager in the Desktop Solutions Group at Sun |
| Microsystems, Inc. Within this group he mainly focusses |
| on the developer aspects of both OpenOffice.org and |
| StarOffice[tm] including the SDK. Erwin started working |
| for Sun as a Systems Engineer in Langen, Germany. There |
| he did pre-sales for various software products |
| including StarOffice and SunRay[tm]. Before Erwin |
| joined Sun he worked for different companies where he |
| did Java consulting, software development and desktop |
| application administration and helpdesk.</em></td> |
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