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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> |
| <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr> |
| <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"> </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> </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> </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> </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> </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> </td> <td> </td> <td> </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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| <p>Since not all key contributors of the OpenOffice.org project |
| can afford to travel to Hamburg, we also provide help for individuals to find a |
| sponsor for their trip. Contributors who want to get sponsorship and companies |
| who would like to support individuals will find more information at |
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| href="contribsponsors.html">http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/contribsponsors.html</a> |
| <br></p> --><p>Companies |
| that are interested in participating in the |
| conference as an exhibitor or sponsor can find registration details on <a href="sponsors.html">this page</a> |
| <br></p> <p>The OpenOffice.org Conference Team / |
| Team OpenOffice.org <br> (with kind support of organisations |
| mentioned below)</p> <p> </p><!-- START sponsors --> |
| <p> |
| <a href="http://www.collab.net/" target="_blank"> <img src="CollabNet.jpg" alt="CollabNet" border="0"></a> |
| <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> |
| <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/" target="_blank"> <img src="oreillylogo_klein.jpg" alt="O'Reilly & 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> |
| |
| <a href="http://www.softwareag.com" target="_blank"> <img src="SAG-xml-200_41_2001.gif" alt=""SOFTWARE AG - The XML Company - Software for Online Transaction, Enterprise Application Integration and Electronic Business"" 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> |
| <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> </p> <p> <a href="http://www.netbeans.org/" target="_blank"> <img src="netbeans_logo.gif" alt="NetBeans" border="0" height="45" width="193"></a> |
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| <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> |
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| <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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