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 						<strong><a name="G1" id="G1"></a>Evaluating and Supporting OpenOffice.org in the Public Administration:
 						the COSPA project.</strong>
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 					<td>Paolo Zuliani <em>Assistant Professor, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy</em></td>
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 					<td>Public Administrations spend every year a considerable amount of money for Commercial
 					Off-The-Shelf software licenses. By using appropriate technologies, such expenses might be either
 					dramatically reduced, or re-routed to further develop local business ecosystems. The COSPA project
 					aims at introducing, analysing, and supporting the use of Open Data Standards and Open Source
 					software for personal productivity and document management in the Public Administration. COSPA
 					will perform pilot projects throughout many European Public Administrations for benchmarking and
 					analysing costs and benefits of migrations to Open Source Software. In particular, the project focuses
 					on OpenOffice.org as the main personal productivity suite. COSPA is funded with 2,6 million euro by
 					the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union and runs from January 2004 to December 2005.
 					</td>
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 					<td><em>Biography: After receiving a Laurea Degree in computer science in 1997 from Universit� degli
 					Studi di Milano, Italy, Mr. Zuliani began graduate studies at Oxford University. He completed his work
 					toward a Ph.D. degree as a member of the Programming Research Group in the Computing Laboratory
 					under the supervision of Dr. Jeff Sanders. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Computer
 					Science at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy.</em>
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 						<strong><a name="G2"></a>Where can I find new features in OpenOffice.org 2.0?</strong>
 					</td>
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 					<td>Sophie Gautier and Elizabeth Matthis <em>Members of the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project</em></td>
 				</tr>

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 					<td>We would like to present the Guide to New Features that we have compiled. It includes
 					descriptions of the new features in OO.o 2.0 as well as where they can be accessed in the
 					office suite. We'll show you what it looks like and where to find it if you want to have a closer
 					look, translate it into your language, and/or use it to market OO.o.
 					</td>
 				</tr>

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 					<td><p><em>Biography: Sophie and Elizabeth have been members of the OO.o marketing project
 					almost since day one. They are both enthusiastic community members who do what they can
 					to get the word out about how good OpenOffice.org is. In addition to the general OO.o marketing
 					mailing list, Sophie can be found on the French lists and Elizabeth can be found on the German lists.</em></p>

 					<p><em>>Elizabeth is employed by Sun Microsystems on the StarOffice/OpenOffice.org User Experience team.
 					Sophie is a volunteer, OpenOffice.org francophone project leader and marketing contact for West Africa.</em></p>
 					</td>
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 					<td class="general">
 						<strong><a name="whatsnew"></a>What's New in OO.o 2.0 (Live Demo)</strong>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

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 					<td>Falko Tesch <em>Product Manager User Experience, Sun Microsystems</em></td>
 				</tr>

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 					<td><p>A live demonstration of OpenOffice.org 2.0 EA showing and explaining the major new features,
 					like new toolbars and menus, new database, XForms, new multi-pane view of Impress and AutoShape
 					support, better system integration, scripting framework as well as MS Office filter updates.</p>

 					<p>I will also give an in-depth look on the impact of these features in relation to MS Office and the office
 					productivity suite market in general.</p>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td><p><em>Biography: Being with Sun (resp. Star Division) for more than 7 years I worked in
 					various fields with and for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org.</em></p>

 					<p><em>Currently I'm working in Sun's User Experience Team for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org with main
 					focus on internationalization and presentations.</em></p>
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 					<td class="general">
 						<strong><a name="G3"></a>Document and Forms Management with OpenOffice.org</strong>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

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 					<td>Niels Mache <em>CEO, struktur AG</em></td>
 				</tr>

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 					<td><p>OpenOffice.org is much more than yet another Office suite. On the desktop OpenOffice.org
 					provides a whole set of office applications where on the server side, OpenOffice.org powerful
 					document processing capability brings document control to business information throughout
 					the document lifecycle. </p>

 					<p>This session will provide live examples of how OpenOffice.org integrates with document and
 					user management, helping to lower total cost of ownership. It will also explore why
 					OpenOffice.org open standards protect the enterprise investment in IT infrastructure. </p>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td><p><em>Biography: Niels Mache is the technical and product visionary of struktur AG.</em></p>

 					<p><em>Niels Mache graduated with a Masters of Science in computer science and computational
 					biology from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Niels Mache is a true Open Source
 					software pioneer. He published his first Open Source software in 1989.</em></p>

 					<p><em>His entrepreneurial spirit led him to provide commercial Linux support and to co-found delix,
 					a company providing Linux software and support. In 1999, delix' operations were acquired by
 					Red Hat Inc., USA. Niels formerly served as director of development for Red Hat GmbH, leading
 					the development of Red Hat Linux in Germany. Prior to his position at Red Hat, Niels Mache
 					served as R&amp;D engineer at Sony Telecommunication Research and Development Europe.</em></p>
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 						<strong><a name="G4"></a>OpenOffice.org/StarOffice - Migration, a methodology in a
 						professional environment</strong>
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 					<td>Lothar K. Becker <em>Managing Director, .riess applications GmbH</em></td>
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 					<td><p>The spirit of Open Source together with the features of a high professional office
 					software package has tremendously increased the interest in StarOffice or OpenOffice.org
 					for a huge amount of companies all over the world. It provides a real chance for lower total
 					cost of ownership for large scaled companies. On the other hand there are a lot of risks
 					in the migration path, which should be covered by a clear and straight forward methodology.</p>

 					<p>It starts in the decision process for the migration to StarOffice/OpenOffice.org itself, where tremendous
 					faults could be made, and it does not end in the right user education after the launch of a new
 					office package. </p>

 					<p>This presentation offers a step by step approach, in which the whole process of a migration is
 					covered. It is designed for large scaled companies with toolkits for automatic analysis and
 					document conversion. Nevertheless it gives hints for non technical issues in the migration path
 					as well as it outlines borders and show stopper. It is based on experiences in successful
 					OpenOffice.org/StarOffice migration projects for professional companies of many branches.
 					The practical experiences of .riess as Sun's first StarOffice Migration Partner in Germany
 					offers precious guidance in your considerations in introducing StarOffice.</p>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td><em>Biography: Lothar K. Becker is the Managing Director of .riess applications until first
 					half of 2004. Before he reached .riess he was responsible for the competence center and sales
 					and marketing department of a software and service company. After his degree in Computer Science
 					he first focused his work in software consulting and project management for ten years. </em>
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 						<strong><a name="G5"></a>Integration of StarOffice / OpenOffice.org with Tamino</strong>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td>Robert Diawara <em>Sales Consultant, Software AG</em></td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td>Motivation, description of technical concepts and Aspects for the customer.
 					Outlook to the future.
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td><em>Biography: Employee of Software AG since 1999. From 1999 to 2000, system
 					architect, responsible for the development of frameworks and customer solutions. Member
 					of the Sales Consultancy since 01.2001.</em>
 					</td>
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 					<td class="general">
 						<strong><a name="G6"></a>Commercial Solutions based on OpenOffice.org</strong>
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td>Erwin Tenhumberg <em>Product Marketing Manager, Sun Microsystems</em></td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td>At trade shows and similar events the most frequently asked question is "What is the
 					difference between OpenOffice.org and StarOffice?" This session will answer this question,
 					but also give an overview about OpenOffice.org derivatives, Linux distributions, third party
 					ISV integrations, and available add-ons. The goal of this session is to show that OpenOffice.org
 					is more than just the open source office suite.
 					</td>
 				</tr>

 				<tr>
 					<td><em>Biography: Erwin Tenhumberg is the Product Marketing Manager for open source
 					technologies in the Desktop Solutions Group at Sun Microsystems. Within this group he
 					mainly focuses on the OpenOffice.org project. Erwin started working for Sun as a Systems
 					Engineer doing pre-sales for various software and desktop products including the StarOffice
 					office suite and the Sun Ray ultra-thin client. Before Erwin joined Sun he worked for various
 					companies doing Java consulting, software development, desktop application administration,
 					and end user support.</em>
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	<strong><a name="G1" id="G1"></a>Evaluating and Supporting OpenOffice.org in the Public Administration:
	the COSPA project.</strong>
	</td>
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	<td>Paolo Zuliani <em>Assistant Professor, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy</em></td>
	</tr>

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	<td>Public Administrations spend every year a considerable amount of money for Commercial
	Off-The-Shelf software licenses. By using appropriate technologies, such expenses might be either
	dramatically reduced, or re-routed to further develop local business ecosystems. The COSPA project
	aims at introducing, analysing, and supporting the use of Open Data Standards and Open Source
	software for personal productivity and document management in the Public Administration. COSPA
	will perform pilot projects throughout many European Public Administrations for benchmarking and
	analysing costs and benefits of migrations to Open Source Software. In particular, the project focuses
	on OpenOffice.org as the main personal productivity suite. COSPA is funded with 2,6 million euro by
	the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union and runs from January 2004 to December 2005.
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><em>Biography: After receiving a Laurea Degree in computer science in 1997 from Universit� degli
	Studi di Milano, Italy, Mr. Zuliani began graduate studies at Oxford University. He completed his work
	toward a Ph.D. degree as a member of the Programming Research Group in the Computing Laboratory
	under the supervision of Dr. Jeff Sanders. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Computer
	Science at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy.</em>
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	<td class="general">
	<strong><a name="G2"></a>Where can I find new features in OpenOffice.org 2.0?</strong>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>Sophie Gautier and Elizabeth Matthis <em>Members of the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project</em></td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>We would like to present the Guide to New Features that we have compiled. It includes
	descriptions of the new features in OO.o 2.0 as well as where they can be accessed in the
	office suite. We'll show you what it looks like and where to find it if you want to have a closer
	look, translate it into your language, and/or use it to market OO.o.
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><p><em>Biography: Sophie and Elizabeth have been members of the OO.o marketing project
	almost since day one. They are both enthusiastic community members who do what they can
	to get the word out about how good OpenOffice.org is. In addition to the general OO.o marketing
	mailing list, Sophie can be found on the French lists and Elizabeth can be found on the German lists.</em></p>

	<p><em>>Elizabeth is employed by Sun Microsystems on the StarOffice/OpenOffice.org User Experience team.
	Sophie is a volunteer, OpenOffice.org francophone project leader and marketing contact for West Africa.</em></p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	</table>

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

	<tr>
	<td class="general">
	<strong><a name="whatsnew"></a>What's New in OO.o 2.0 (Live Demo)</strong>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>Falko Tesch <em>Product Manager User Experience, Sun Microsystems</em></td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><p>A live demonstration of OpenOffice.org 2.0 EA showing and explaining the major new features,
	like new toolbars and menus, new database, XForms, new multi-pane view of Impress and AutoShape
	support, better system integration, scripting framework as well as MS Office filter updates.</p>

	<p>I will also give an in-depth look on the impact of these features in relation to MS Office and the office
	productivity suite market in general.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><p><em>Biography: Being with Sun (resp. Star Division) for more than 7 years I worked in
	various fields with and for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org.</em></p>

	<p><em>Currently I'm working in Sun's User Experience Team for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org with main
	focus on internationalization and presentations.</em></p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	</table>

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

	<table id="G3" name="G3" summary="" border="1" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000080">

	<tr>
	<td class="general">
	<strong><a name="G3"></a>Document and Forms Management with OpenOffice.org</strong>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>Niels Mache <em>CEO, struktur AG</em></td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><p>OpenOffice.org is much more than yet another Office suite. On the desktop OpenOffice.org
	provides a whole set of office applications where on the server side, OpenOffice.org powerful
	document processing capability brings document control to business information throughout
	the document lifecycle. </p>

	<p>This session will provide live examples of how OpenOffice.org integrates with document and
	user management, helping to lower total cost of ownership. It will also explore why
	OpenOffice.org open standards protect the enterprise investment in IT infrastructure. </p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><p><em>Biography: Niels Mache is the technical and product visionary of struktur AG.</em></p>

	<p><em>Niels Mache graduated with a Masters of Science in computer science and computational
	biology from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Niels Mache is a true Open Source
	software pioneer. He published his first Open Source software in 1989.</em></p>

	<p><em>His entrepreneurial spirit led him to provide commercial Linux support and to co-found delix,
	a company providing Linux software and support. In 1999, delix' operations were acquired by
	Red Hat Inc., USA. Niels formerly served as director of development for Red Hat GmbH, leading
	the development of Red Hat Linux in Germany. Prior to his position at Red Hat, Niels Mache
	served as R&D engineer at Sony Telecommunication Research and Development Europe.</em></p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	</table>

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	<tr>
	<td class="general">
	<strong><a name="G4"></a>OpenOffice.org/StarOffice - Migration, a methodology in a
	professional environment</strong>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>Lothar K. Becker <em>Managing Director, .riess applications GmbH</em></td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><p>The spirit of Open Source together with the features of a high professional office
	software package has tremendously increased the interest in StarOffice or OpenOffice.org
	for a huge amount of companies all over the world. It provides a real chance for lower total
	cost of ownership for large scaled companies. On the other hand there are a lot of risks
	in the migration path, which should be covered by a clear and straight forward methodology.</p>

	<p>It starts in the decision process for the migration to StarOffice/OpenOffice.org itself, where tremendous
	faults could be made, and it does not end in the right user education after the launch of a new
	office package. </p>

	<p>This presentation offers a step by step approach, in which the whole process of a migration is
	covered. It is designed for large scaled companies with toolkits for automatic analysis and
	document conversion. Nevertheless it gives hints for non technical issues in the migration path
	as well as it outlines borders and show stopper. It is based on experiences in successful
	OpenOffice.org/StarOffice migration projects for professional companies of many branches.
	The practical experiences of .riess as Sun's first StarOffice Migration Partner in Germany
	offers precious guidance in your considerations in introducing StarOffice.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><em>Biography: Lothar K. Becker is the Managing Director of .riess applications until first
	half of 2004. Before he reached .riess he was responsible for the competence center and sales
	and marketing department of a software and service company. After his degree in Computer Science
	he first focused his work in software consulting and project management for ten years. </em>
	</td>
	</tr>

	</table>

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	<table id="G5" name="G5" summary="" border="1" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000080">

	<tr>
	<td class="general">
	<strong><a name="G5"></a>Integration of StarOffice / OpenOffice.org with Tamino</strong>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>Robert Diawara <em>Sales Consultant, Software AG</em></td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>Motivation, description of technical concepts and Aspects for the customer.
	Outlook to the future.
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><em>Biography: Employee of Software AG since 1999. From 1999 to 2000, system
	architect, responsible for the development of frameworks and customer solutions. Member
	of the Sales Consultancy since 01.2001.</em>
	</td>
	</tr>

	</table>

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

	<table id="G6" name="G6" summary="" border="1" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000080">

	<tr>
	<td class="general">
	<strong><a name="G6"></a>Commercial Solutions based on OpenOffice.org</strong>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>Erwin Tenhumberg <em>Product Marketing Manager, Sun Microsystems</em></td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>At trade shows and similar events the most frequently asked question is "What is the
	difference between OpenOffice.org and StarOffice?" This session will answer this question,
	but also give an overview about OpenOffice.org derivatives, Linux distributions, third party
	ISV integrations, and available add-ons. The goal of this session is to show that OpenOffice.org
	is more than just the open source office suite.
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td><em>Biography: Erwin Tenhumberg is the Product Marketing Manager for open source
	technologies in the Desktop Solutions Group at Sun Microsystems. Within this group he
	mainly focuses on the OpenOffice.org project. Erwin started working for Sun as a Systems
	Engineer doing pre-sales for various software and desktop products including the StarOffice
	office suite and the Sun Ray ultra-thin client. Before Erwin joined Sun he worked for various
	companies doing Java consulting, software development, desktop application administration,
	and end user support.</em>
	</td>
	</tr>

	</table>
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