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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>
<p>"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."
<br>Curtis Sasaki, VP Desktop Solutions, Sun Microsystems
</p> <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> </b></td> <td><img src="nada.gif" height="14" width="28"></td>
<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#c63b16"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font color="#ffffff">Development</font></b></font></td>
</tr> <tr> <td height="2"><img src="group_blue.gif" height="17" width="52"></td><td height="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">General
Usage and Features </font></td> <td height="2">&nbsp;</td>
<td height="2"><img src="group_red.gif" height="17" width="52"></td> <td height="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Software Development Kit
</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="2"><img src="group_blue.gif" height="17" width="52"></td><td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Business
and Governemt</font></td> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td><img src="group_red.gif" height="17" width="52"></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Porting
</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="group_blue.gif" height="17" width="52"></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Marketing
</font></td> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td><img src="group_red.gif" height="17" width="52"></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Localization
</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="group_blue.gif" height="17" width="52"></td>
<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Standards
(especially XML)</font></td> <td>&nbsp;</td>
<td><img src="group_red.gif" height="17" width="52"></td> <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Filters </font></td>
</tr> <tr> <td><img src="group_blue.gif" height="17" width="52"></td> <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Open Source </font></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td> <td><img src="group_red.gif" height="17" width="52"></td> <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">QA </font></td>
</tr> <tr> <td><img src="group_blue.gif" height="17" width="52"></td> <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Community </font></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr> </tbody></table> <p> </p> <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> <p> 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 available from the schedule)</em>.</p>
<p> For registering as an attendee please go to <a href="registration.html">this page</a>
<br>The admission fee will be EUR 20 and will be collected at the
event.</p><p></p>
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<br></p> <p>The OpenOffice.org Conference Team /
Team OpenOffice.org <br> (with kind support of organisations
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<a href="http://www.collab.net/" target="_blank"> <img src="CollabNet.jpg" alt="CollabNet" border="0"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.edosnet.org/" target="_blank"> <img src="EdOsNetOrg.jpg" alt="Educational Opensource Network Organization" border="0"></a>
</p> <p> <a href="http://www.eikonex.net/" target="_blank"> <img src="20030317-logo-eiko-opensource.png" alt="eikonex" border="0" height="63" width="222"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://www.oreilly.com/" target="_blank"> <img src="oreillylogo_klein.jpg" alt="O'Reilly &amp; Associates, Inc." border="0"></a> </p> <p> <a href="http://www.riess.de/" target="_blank"> <img src="riess.gif" alt=".riess integration ag" border="0" height="56" width="170"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.softwareag.com" target="_blank"> <img src="SAG-xml-200_41_2001.gif" alt="&quot;SOFTWARE AG - The XML Company - Software for Online Transaction, Enterprise Application Integration and Electronic Business&quot;" border="0" height="41" width="200"></a> </p><p>
</p><!-- WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="41" --> <a href="http://www.icoya.com" target="_blank"> <img src="icoya_by_struktur.jpg" alt="icoya by struktur AG" border="0"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.sunsource.net" target="_blank"><!-- width="188" height="41" -->
<img src="sun_logo3.jpg" alt="Sun Microsystems" border="0" height="61" width="140"></a> <p></p>
<p></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/" target="_blank"> <img src="netbeans_logo.gif" alt="NetBeans" border="0" height="45" width="193"></a>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.ikon-os.de" target="_blank"> <img src="ikon.gif" alt="IKON Office Solutions" border="0"></a> </p>
<p> <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/" target="_blank"> <img src="OASIS_logo.gif" alt="OASIS" border="0" height="50" width="71"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.telindus.de" target="_blank"> <img src="telindus_logo.gif" alt="Telindus" border="0" height="33" width="189"></a> </p>
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