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| <h2>Abstracts of Conference Papers - Keynotes</h2> |
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| <p class="title">The Novell migration to OpenOffice.org</p> |
| <p class="by">Debra Anderson</p> |
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| <p> Debra Anderson Novell's CIO will speak about Novell's experience adopting |
| OpenOffice.org, the importance of Open Source to the company and how it has |
| transformed the business within IT.</p> |
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| <p><strong>Debra Anderson</strong>, Appointed Chief Information Officer |
| in 2002, oversees Novell's Information Services & Technology Group. |
| Her responsibilities include the deployment of strategic |
| business information systems globally, driving Novell's open source adoption |
| in-house, providing internal company technical support and developing, |
| implementing and managing Novell's IT services. As the first user of Novell's |
| technologies, Debra regularly provides input into Novell's technical direction |
| and insight and recommendations to customers deploying Novell's open source |
| and identity offerings.</p> |
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| <p>Prior to joining Novell, Debra spent 18 years in grocery retailing with |
| Lucky Stores, American Stores and Albertsons, holding both IT and general |
| business positions.</p> |
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| <p>Debra holds a BA Degree in Computer Science from the State University |
| of New York at Potsdam.</p> |
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| <p>Novell delivers Software for the Open Enterprise. With more than 50,000 |
| customers in 43 countries, Novell helps customers manage, simplify, secure |
| and integrate their technology environments by leveraging best-of-breed, open |
| standards-based software. With more than 20 years of experience, 4,700 employees, |
| 5,000 partners and support centers around the world, Novell helps customers |
| gain control over their IT operating environments while reducing costs. More |
| information about Novell can be found at http://www.novell.com.</p> |
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| <p class="title">Google Summer of Code</p> |
| <p class="by">Zaheda Bhorat</p> |
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| <p>Zaheda Bhorat, Open Source Program Manager at Google, will explain the |
| importance of the Google 's Summer of code and why you should join.</p> |
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| <p class="title">OpenDocument, Open Revolution</p> |
| <p class="by">E. Gutentag & Bob Sutor & Nathaniel Borenstein & Charles-H.Schulz</p> |
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| <p>A one hour panel discussion on the merits of OpenDocument Format.</p> |
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| <p><strong>Eduardo Gutentag</strong> has been involved in the SGML/XML |
| world for over 10 years, and has participated in many SGML/XML related |
| activities at W3C and OASIS (even when it was still called SGML Open), |
| as well as at ebXML. He is currently a Senior Staff Engineer at the Web |
| Technology and Standards organization of Sun Microsystems. He is Sun's |
| W3C AC representative, and an elected member of the OASIS Technical |
| Advisory Board. In the UBL group, he participates in the Naming and |
| Design Rules subcommittee, and is the editor and chair of the Context |
| Methodology subcommittee.</p> |
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| <p><strong>Bob Sutor</strong>, Vice President Standards & Open Source, |
| IBM Corporation, Executive responsible for driving and executing the |
| cross-company business and technical strategy for open standards and open |
| source as they relate to software, hardware, services, vertical industries, |
| and emerging markets. In particular, helps move IBM from its traditional |
| technical and intellectual property approach to one where business exploitation |
| of standards and open source for greater customer value is paramount, especially |
| in vertical industries and emerging markets. Chairman of the IBM internal |
| Corporate Standards Advisory Committee and the Open Source Steering Committee. |
| Works with partners, customers, government leaders and government agencies |
| around the world to understand and adopt modern, business-savvy open strategies |
| and policies. Leads the IBM team accelerating the adoption of the OASIS and ISO |
| OpenDocument Format standard. Senior IBM spokesperson and evangelist for |
| standards and open source, and a widely quoted and read global expert on |
| these areas and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). |
| Cofounder of the OpenDocument Format Alliance.</p> |
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| <p><strong>Dr. Nathaniel S. Borenstein</strong> is a Distinguished Engineer |
| with IBM Lotus Division, working on Internet standards and strategy and |
| overseeing the Lotus research program. He is also the President of Computer |
| Professionals for Social Responsibility, and a part time research faculty |
| member at the School of Information of the University of Michigan. |
| He has been an Internet user, developer, standardizer, entrepreneur, and |
| social activist since 1980. |
| His credits include the MIME standard, the Andrew Mail System, the metamail |
| software, the Safe-Tcl programming language, "Programming as if People Mattered" |
| and two other books, three patents, the startups First Virtual Holdings and |
| NetPOS.com, and the "One Planet, One Net" manifesto.</p> |
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| <p><strong>Charles-H.Schulz</strong> is the Lead of the Native-Language |
| Confederation of OpenOffice.org, and a partner of the Ars Aperta Consulting |
| Group. A member of both OASIS' ODF Adoption and Technical Committees, he will |
| be chairing the panel discussion and also representing OpenOffice.org.</p> |
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