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 						<strong><a name="C1" id="C1"></a>State of the Project, Year 4</strong>
 					</td>
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 					<td>Louis Su&aacute;rez-Potts <em>OpenOffice.org Community Manager</em></td>
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 					<td><p>In this session we will examine the OOo project as it is today, including
 					governance, relations with other projects, contributions, etc., and looks at where
 					we are heading.</p>
 					</td>
 				</tr>
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 				  <td><em>Biography: Louis Suárez-Potts is the Community Manager of OpenOffice.org and Senior Community Development Manager at CollabNet. Much to his amazement, he has been managing community OpenOffice.org since its inception.</em></td>
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 			<p><a href="thursday.html" title="Agenda for Thursday">Back</a></p>

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 					<td class="community">
 						<strong><a name="C7" id="C7"></a>One and a half Years of the Japanese Community </strong>
 					</td>
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 					<td>NAKATA, Maho <em>Tokyo University</em></td>
 				</tr>

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 					<td>
 					<p>
 					The Japanese native language project is one of the biggest
 					and most active community among native lang projects,
 					and should have some political influences in OOo community
 					and opensource community.
 					</p>
 					<p>
 					Unlike other languages which use alphabets, processing Japanese is
 					extremely difficult for computer; one reason is we use
 					over 10,000 characters,
 					and this induces many problems including political ones.
 					Nevertheless, our active field has become very vast,
 					publishing books, voluntary user support, dealing with SourceCast problems
 					esp. CJK specific ones, events, bug fixing/reporting, localization
 					and porting etc.
 					</p>
 					<p>
 					Introducing results/efforts of Japanese community in one
 					and half years from OOoCon2003 as case study.
 					</p>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td height="86"><em>
 					Biography:
 					NAKATA, Maho is one of the Japanese Native-Language project leads.
 					He is working for about 1.5 years at the project and
 					also interested in FreeBSD.
 					He is postdoctoral fellow at Tokyo University, research subject is
 					quantum chemistry; doing chemistry with computer and
 					without experiments.
 					</em>
 					</td>
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 					<td class="community">
 						<strong><a name="C2" id="C2"></a>Towards Community</strong>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

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 					<td>Michael Meeks <em>Desktop Software Engineer, Novell, Inc.</em></td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td><p>This talk sets out to explain the reasons and rational behind the ooo-build
 							project: why it is we work this way, why it has been the base for most Linux
 							distributions, why it is attractive to people wanting to develop features for OO.o,
 							and how we can make OO.o more attractive.</p>

 							<p>We will also walk us through some light-hearted annotated histories of
 							interaction with people outside of Sun on various issues, hopefully to illuminate
 							ways of more efficient communication and encouragement of external developers.</p>

 							<p>Finally a look at the various areas for improvement, for better collaboration
 							with main-line OO.o development, improved release cycle integration, and some
 							of the emphasis and interesting new pieces in ooo-build.</p>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

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 					<td height="86"><em>Biography: Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic believer in Free software.
 					He very much enjoys working for Novell where as a member of the Ximian research team
 					he has worked on Desktop infrastructure and applications, particularly the CORBA, Bonobo,
 					Nautilus and accessibility, amongst other interesting things. He now works fulltime on
 					OpenOffice.org integration. Prior to this he worked for Quantel gaining expertise in real time
 					AV editing and playback achieved with high performance focused hardware / software solutions.</em>
 					</td>
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 			<p><a href="thursday.html" title="Agenda for Thursday">Back</a></p>

 			<table id="C3" name="C3" summary="" border="1" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000080">

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 					<td class="community">
 						<strong><a name="C3" id="C3"></a>Desktop Domination by 2010</strong> OpenOffice.org Marketing Strategy Workshop
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td>John McCreesh <em>Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project</em><br />
 					and<br />
 					Jacqueline McNally <em>Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project</em></td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td><p>The Marketing Project is one of the ways in which "non-technical" people
 					can help the OpenOffice.org Community "create as a community the leading international
 					office suite".</p>

 					<p>This interactive session will explore the Marketing Project's work on creating the first Marketing Strategy
 					and Plan to achieve "desktop domination" for the OpenOffice.org Office Suite by 2010. At the end of the session, attendees should:</p>

 					<ul>
 						<li>have a good understanding of the emerging strategy
 						<li>feel excited at being part of this amazing community
 						<li>understand the strategy making process and know how to take part in it.
 					</ul>
                <p>The workshop is aimed at the entire community, not just Marketing professionals.
                   The Marketing Project needs YOU!
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td><em>Biography: John McCreesh is Co-Lead of the Marketing Project and a member
 					of the Website and DBA projects. He is the author of the OOo Product Flyer and maintains
 					the OOo product pages <a HREF="http://www.openoffice.org/product">http://www.openoffice.org/product</a>.
 					He has authored several HOW-TOs 	on database access from OOo and has written a report writer add-in for
 					Calc at <a HREF="http://oooreport.sf.net">http://oooreport.sf.net</a>.</em>
 					</td>
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 			</table>

 			<p><a href="thursday.html" title="Agenda for Thursday">Back</a></p>

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 					<td class="community">
 						<strong><a name="C4" id="C4"></a>Effective Marketing for OpenOffice.org CDROM Distributors</strong>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td>Jacqueline McNally <em>Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project</em></td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td><p>OpenOffice.org is distributed through OEMs, CDROM distributors and downloaded
 					from the Internet. CDROM distributors have the opportunity to play an increasing role
 					by reaching those individuals and organisations that do not have a reliable and fast
 					connection to the Internet.</p>

 					<p>This workshop will explore ways for OpenOffice.org CDROM distributors to market and
 					distribute OpenOffice.org effectively. Topics include: </p>

 					<ul>
 						<li>Identity and branding.
 						<li>What goes on the CDROM.
 						<li>Promotion and working with the Marketing Project.
 						<li>Processes and methodology including burning or copying of CDROMs, labelling,
 						packaging and delivery.
 						<li>I have sent a CDROM, what now?
 						<li>How to contribute to OpenOffice.org.
 					</ul>

 					<p>The workshop is to be accompanied by a static display of sample CDROMs, packaging
 					and marketing material used by OpenOffice.org CDROM distributors. </p>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td><p><em>Biography: Jacqueline McNally is Lead of the Marketing Project and Webmistress.
 					She enjoys responding to the OpenOffice.org webmaster mail to show that there are real people
 					at the end of email messages and within the OpenOffice.org community. </em></p>

 					<p><em>Jacqueline uses her research skills to connect to many activities within the OpenOffice.org
 					community and sees one of her roles as guiding others from wherever they have arrived at the
 					community. </em></p>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 			</table>

 			<p><a href="thursday.html" title="Agenda for Thursday">Back</a></p>

 			<table id="C5" name="C5" summary="" border="1" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000080">

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 					<td class="community">
 						<strong><a name="C5" id="C5"></a>The Digital Tipping Point: Marketing for the fun of it.</strong>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td>Christian J. Einfeldt <em>The Big Cheese, The Open Source Banyan Tree</em></td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td><p>Open source software (OSS) is a "disruptive technology" as unique as the printing press
 					was when Guttenberg invented it.  Christian Einfeldt is a simple end user of OSS who became
 					so excited about OSS that he has teamed with director Paul Donahue to produce a feature-length
 					documentary film, called "The Digital Tipping Point"  to explore the cultural effects of the global
 					shift to this disruptive technology.</p>

 					<p>Christian's talk will include clips from film interviews of open source newsmakers such as the
 					Mayor of Munich, Germany and the Education Minister of Extremadura, Spain.</p>

 					<p>The theme of the film, and Christian's talk, is that OSS is a "disruptive technology" which
 					could change the computer software industry as dramatically as Honda's disruptive Supercub
 					motorcycle up-ended the North American motorcycle market, as discussed by Harvard Business
 					Professor Clayton Christensen in his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma.</p>

 					<p>The OSS community is the most distinguishing "disruptive" feature of OSS.  The dynamic
 					nature of the OSS community and the economically sustainable businesses deploying OSS will
 					preserve the "open" quality of the Internet and drive the creativity produced in the "creative
 					commons" of cyberspace.</p>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td><p><em>Biography: Christian Einfeldt is a simple end user who deploys OOo as
 					his primary office productivity suite both in his law practice and his emerging non-profit
 					advocacy group, called the Open Source Banyan Tree in San Francisco California.</em></p>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 			</table>

 			<p><a href="thursday.html" title="Agenda for Thursday">Back</a></p>

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 					<td class="community">
 						<strong><a name="C6" id="C6"></a>Two Years at the Head of the Native-Lang Confederation:
 						At the heart of OpenOffice.org</strong>
 					</td>
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 					<td>Charles-H. Schulz <em>Lead of the Native-Lang Confederation and BizDev Project</em></td>
 				</tr>

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 					<td><p>This would be a presentation that is primarily intended at the Native-Lang members.
 					I shall explain why the Native-Lang category was created, how it was at the beginning, how
 					I came to be nominated by Guy Capra and what was going on at that time. I'll the speak
 					about the expansion of the Native-Lang Confederation, how we start with 5 or 7 communities
 					and how we went up to now, with more than 40 projects. I'll describe the major issues we've been
 					facing up to now, and what went wrong, what got better.</p>

 					<p>Then there will be a general overview on  how the Native-Lang Confederation interacts with
 					the other projects inside OpenOffice.org and even outside our community.</p>

 					<p>As a final point I'll be speaking about where I think the Native-Lang Confederation goes,
 					why, and how to drive it one step further.</p>

 					<p>As a conclusion I will provide a short update on what will be going on inside the NLC at the
 					time of the conference and I will thank all the members of the Native-lang Confederation.</p>
 					</td>
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 					<td><p><em>Biography: I was born and live in Paris. I'm 25 years old and initially I didn't have
 					any interest in computers or software except for games. After some painful law studies, I founded
 					a small US-based company in the mobile internet services that ceased any business activity after
 					the dot-com burst.</em></p>

 					  <p><em>I then decided to complete my academic cursus and entered a business school in Paris.
 					Around that time I decided to join OpenOffice.org, having used StarOffice 5.2 for a long time.</em></p>

 					  <p><em>I was first involved in the Marketing and the FR project of OpenOffice.org; then I took the
 					charge of Lead of the Native-Lang Category together with Louis Suarez-Potts and became
 					heavily involved in OpenOffice.org. These days I work at Novell local marketing unit in Paris
 					as part of my 4th year academic cursus.</em></p>
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	<td class="community">
	<strong><a name="C1" id="C1"></a>State of the Project, Year 4</strong>
	</td>
	</tr>

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	<td>Louis Suárez-Potts <em>OpenOffice.org Community Manager</em></td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><p>In this session we will examine the OOo project as it is today, including
	governance, relations with other projects, contributions, etc., and looks at where
	we are heading.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td><em>Biography: Louis Suárez-Potts is the Community Manager of OpenOffice.org and Senior Community Development Manager at CollabNet. Much to his amazement, he has been managing community OpenOffice.org since its inception.</em></td>
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	<td class="community">
	<strong><a name="C7" id="C7"></a>One and a half Years of the Japanese Community </strong>
	</td>
	</tr>

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	<td>NAKATA, Maho <em>Tokyo University</em></td>
	</tr>

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	<td>
	<p>
	The Japanese native language project is one of the biggest
	and most active community among native lang projects,
	and should have some political influences in OOo community
	and opensource community.
	</p>
	<p>
	Unlike other languages which use alphabets, processing Japanese is
	extremely difficult for computer; one reason is we use
	over 10,000 characters,
	and this induces many problems including political ones.
	Nevertheless, our active field has become very vast,
	publishing books, voluntary user support, dealing with SourceCast problems
	esp. CJK specific ones, events, bug fixing/reporting, localization
	and porting etc.
	</p>
	<p>
	Introducing results/efforts of Japanese community in one
	and half years from OOoCon2003 as case study.
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td height="86"><em>
	Biography:
	NAKATA, Maho is one of the Japanese Native-Language project leads.
	He is working for about 1.5 years at the project and
	also interested in FreeBSD.
	He is postdoctoral fellow at Tokyo University, research subject is
	quantum chemistry; doing chemistry with computer and
	without experiments.
	</em>
	</td>
	</tr>

	</table>

	<p><a href="thursday.html" title="Agenda for Thursday">Back</a></p>

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	<tr>
	<td class="community">
	<strong><a name="C2" id="C2"></a>Towards Community</strong>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>Michael Meeks <em>Desktop Software Engineer, Novell, Inc.</em></td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><p>This talk sets out to explain the reasons and rational behind the ooo-build
	project: why it is we work this way, why it has been the base for most Linux
	distributions, why it is attractive to people wanting to develop features for OO.o,
	and how we can make OO.o more attractive.</p>

	<p>We will also walk us through some light-hearted annotated histories of
	interaction with people outside of Sun on various issues, hopefully to illuminate
	ways of more efficient communication and encouragement of external developers.</p>

	<p>Finally a look at the various areas for improvement, for better collaboration
	with main-line OO.o development, improved release cycle integration, and some
	of the emphasis and interesting new pieces in ooo-build.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td height="86"><em>Biography: Michael is a Christian and enthusiastic believer in Free software.
	He very much enjoys working for Novell where as a member of the Ximian research team
	he has worked on Desktop infrastructure and applications, particularly the CORBA, Bonobo,
	Nautilus and accessibility, amongst other interesting things. He now works fulltime on
	OpenOffice.org integration. Prior to this he worked for Quantel gaining expertise in real time
	AV editing and playback achieved with high performance focused hardware / software solutions.</em>
	</td>
	</tr>

	</table>

	<p><a href="thursday.html" title="Agenda for Thursday">Back</a></p>

	<table id="C3" name="C3" summary="" border="1" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000080">

	<tr>
	<td class="community">
	<strong><a name="C3" id="C3"></a>Desktop Domination by 2010</strong> OpenOffice.org Marketing Strategy Workshop
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>John McCreesh <em>Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project</em><br />
	and<br />
	Jacqueline McNally <em>Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project</em></td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><p>The Marketing Project is one of the ways in which "non-technical" people
	can help the OpenOffice.org Community "create as a community the leading international
	office suite".</p>

	<p>This interactive session will explore the Marketing Project's work on creating the first Marketing Strategy
	and Plan to achieve "desktop domination" for the OpenOffice.org Office Suite by 2010. At the end of the session, attendees should:</p>

	<ul>
	<li>have a good understanding of the emerging strategy
	<li>feel excited at being part of this amazing community
	<li>understand the strategy making process and know how to take part in it.
	</ul>
	<p>The workshop is aimed at the entire community, not just Marketing professionals.
	The Marketing Project needs YOU!
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><em>Biography: John McCreesh is Co-Lead of the Marketing Project and a member
	of the Website and DBA projects. He is the author of the OOo Product Flyer and maintains
	the OOo product pages <a HREF="http://www.openoffice.org/product">http://www.openoffice.org/product</a>.
	He has authored several HOW-TOs on database access from OOo and has written a report writer add-in for
	Calc at <a HREF="http://oooreport.sf.net">http://oooreport.sf.net</a>.</em>
	</td>
	</tr>

	</table>

	<p><a href="thursday.html" title="Agenda for Thursday">Back</a></p>

	<table id="C4" name="C4" summary="" border="1" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000080">

	<tr>
	<td class="community">
	<strong><a name="C4" id="C4"></a>Effective Marketing for OpenOffice.org CDROM Distributors</strong>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>Jacqueline McNally <em>Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project</em></td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><p>OpenOffice.org is distributed through OEMs, CDROM distributors and downloaded
	from the Internet. CDROM distributors have the opportunity to play an increasing role
	by reaching those individuals and organisations that do not have a reliable and fast
	connection to the Internet.</p>

	<p>This workshop will explore ways for OpenOffice.org CDROM distributors to market and
	distribute OpenOffice.org effectively. Topics include: </p>

	<ul>
	<li>Identity and branding.
	<li>What goes on the CDROM.
	<li>Promotion and working with the Marketing Project.
	<li>Processes and methodology including burning or copying of CDROMs, labelling,
	packaging and delivery.
	<li>I have sent a CDROM, what now?
	<li>How to contribute to OpenOffice.org.
	</ul>

	<p>The workshop is to be accompanied by a static display of sample CDROMs, packaging
	and marketing material used by OpenOffice.org CDROM distributors. </p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><p><em>Biography: Jacqueline McNally is Lead of the Marketing Project and Webmistress.
	She enjoys responding to the OpenOffice.org webmaster mail to show that there are real people
	at the end of email messages and within the OpenOffice.org community. </em></p>

	<p><em>Jacqueline uses her research skills to connect to many activities within the OpenOffice.org
	community and sees one of her roles as guiding others from wherever they have arrived at the
	community. </em></p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	</table>

	<p><a href="thursday.html" title="Agenda for Thursday">Back</a></p>

	<table id="C5" name="C5" summary="" border="1" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000080">

	<tr>
	<td class="community">
	<strong><a name="C5" id="C5"></a>The Digital Tipping Point: Marketing for the fun of it.</strong>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>Christian J. Einfeldt <em>The Big Cheese, The Open Source Banyan Tree</em></td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><p>Open source software (OSS) is a "disruptive technology" as unique as the printing press
	was when Guttenberg invented it. Christian Einfeldt is a simple end user of OSS who became
	so excited about OSS that he has teamed with director Paul Donahue to produce a feature-length
	documentary film, called "The Digital Tipping Point" to explore the cultural effects of the global
	shift to this disruptive technology.</p>

	<p>Christian's talk will include clips from film interviews of open source newsmakers such as the
	Mayor of Munich, Germany and the Education Minister of Extremadura, Spain.</p>

	<p>The theme of the film, and Christian's talk, is that OSS is a "disruptive technology" which
	could change the computer software industry as dramatically as Honda's disruptive Supercub
	motorcycle up-ended the North American motorcycle market, as discussed by Harvard Business
	Professor Clayton Christensen in his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma.</p>

	<p>The OSS community is the most distinguishing "disruptive" feature of OSS. The dynamic
	nature of the OSS community and the economically sustainable businesses deploying OSS will
	preserve the "open" quality of the Internet and drive the creativity produced in the "creative
	commons" of cyberspace.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><p><em>Biography: Christian Einfeldt is a simple end user who deploys OOo as
	his primary office productivity suite both in his law practice and his emerging non-profit
	advocacy group, called the Open Source Banyan Tree in San Francisco California.</em></p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	</table>

	<p><a href="thursday.html" title="Agenda for Thursday">Back</a></p>

	<table id="C6" name="C6" summary="" border="1" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000080">

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	<strong><a name="C6" id="C6"></a>Two Years at the Head of the Native-Lang Confederation:
	At the heart of OpenOffice.org</strong>
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	<td>Charles-H. Schulz <em>Lead of the Native-Lang Confederation and BizDev Project</em></td>
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	<td><p>This would be a presentation that is primarily intended at the Native-Lang members.
	I shall explain why the Native-Lang category was created, how it was at the beginning, how
	I came to be nominated by Guy Capra and what was going on at that time. I'll the speak
	about the expansion of the Native-Lang Confederation, how we start with 5 or 7 communities
	and how we went up to now, with more than 40 projects. I'll describe the major issues we've been
	facing up to now, and what went wrong, what got better.</p>

	<p>Then there will be a general overview on how the Native-Lang Confederation interacts with
	the other projects inside OpenOffice.org and even outside our community.</p>

	<p>As a final point I'll be speaking about where I think the Native-Lang Confederation goes,
	why, and how to drive it one step further.</p>

	<p>As a conclusion I will provide a short update on what will be going on inside the NLC at the
	time of the conference and I will thank all the members of the Native-lang Confederation.</p>
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	<td><p><em>Biography: I was born and live in Paris. I'm 25 years old and initially I didn't have
	any interest in computers or software except for games. After some painful law studies, I founded
	a small US-based company in the mobile internet services that ceased any business activity after
	the dot-com burst.</em></p>

	<p><em>I then decided to complete my academic cursus and entered a business school in Paris.
	Around that time I decided to join OpenOffice.org, having used StarOffice 5.2 for a long time.</em></p>

	<p><em>I was first involved in the Marketing and the FR project of OpenOffice.org; then I took the
	charge of Lead of the Native-Lang Category together with Louis Suarez-Potts and became
	heavily involved in OpenOffice.org. These days I work at Novell local marketing unit in Paris
	as part of my 4th year academic cursus.</em></p>
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