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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 &amp; 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>
<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>
<p>Debra holds a BA Degree in Computer Science from the State University
of New York at Potsdam.</p>
<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 &amp; Bob Sutor &amp; Nathaniel Borenstein &amp; 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>
<p><strong>Bob Sutor</strong>, Vice President Standards &amp; 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>
<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>
<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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