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     <h1>Bratislava, Slovakia</h1>

     <h2>Proposal for OOoCon 2008</h2><br style="clear: left;" />

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         <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>

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     <div class="contentpart" id="contextualinformation">
       <br />
       <br />
     </div>

     <h2>Key Question</h2>

     <div class="quotation">
       <p>In 400 words or less, answer this question: Why is your location and
       the date you propose the best for OOoCon 2008?</p>
     </div>

     <p>Bratislava is a great place for hosting international conferences,
     some of the international conferences which happen in Bratislava are the
     biggest one in central Europe. Slovakia have very good activities with
     open source software mostly in educational sector, there are several
     schools using such solutions for teaching purposes. The open source
     community in Slovakia, which also include some business like
     international ones such as Novell, Sun, IBM and smaller national small
     and medium sized enterprise focused on open source software. We have also
     strong support from a company 602Office, which is using OpenOffice with
     their own build and are selling support on such solution. 602Office is
     really popular among Czechs and Slovaks, since early 90s the only
     software you used for writing documents was from them, basically they are
     still really famous. OooCon 2008 can have a very intensive impact on the
     educational processes in Slovakia, which is good for youth people who
     will become pro open source adults in the future. Also it will boost the
     general wisdom of open source software, OpenOffice application for usage
     in government and can put a lot of light on the Open Standards issues
     which the world is facing right now. Promotion of Open Document Format is
     also very important mostly in the Eastern parts of Europe, where the
     government is missing experts regarding Open Standards and services of
     the government.</p>
     <hr />

     <h2>Mandatory Information</h2>

     <h3>Location (country, city, conference center/university)</h3>

     <p>Slovakia, Bratislava, conference will be held in main park of culture
     center. Area of culture center buildings, can hold up to 2000 attendees
     in the main building, 500 attendees in the second building, is almost at
     the city center (10minutes by walk), is accessible by public transport
     (tram and bus) and is located on the old city center side of river
     danube. Main building offers various combination of smaller and bigger
     rooms which is ideal for workshops and bigger sessions. Bratislava is
     accessible by car via highways direction Prague – Berlin, Vienna,
     Budapest and Poland. Bratislava have three close international Airports,
     Airport Bratislava with mostly European flights (2km from Bratislava),
     Airport Vienna (20km from Bratislava / 20minutes by car) via highway
     Bratislava – Vienna and Airport Budapest reachable 1 hour driving by
     car.</p>

     <h3>Proposed Date(s)</h3>

     <p>Between 15 – 19 September / 22 – 26 September 2008, but we are
     flexible also for October, and we are counting using one weekend day for
     part of the conference if possible</p>

     <h3>Team Lead (main contact person)</h3>

     <p>Jan Husar (jan.husar (at) skosi.org) / SKOSI</p>

     <h3>Team Members</h3>

     <ul>
       <li>Jan Husar (team lead, jan.husar (at) skosi.org) / SKOSI + whole skosi
       team (around 10 people)</li>

       <li>Michal Vavak and Tomas Vencelik / New Media Group</li>

       <li>Miroslav Macko / Novell Slovakia</li>

       <li>Martina Pisonova and Eva Stefanova / Sun Microsystems Slovakia</li>

       <li>Juraj Bednar / Digmia</li>

       <li>Jozef Sves, Tana Sramerkova, Milos Sramek, Ales Kreman, Martina
       Lickova, Ivan Nudzik + people from open source communities such as
       Linuxos, SKLUG, mozilla, ubuntu, etc...</li>
     </ul>

     <h3>Local events that are taking place in parallel (or right
     before/after)</h3>

     <p>One day conference, Open Source in education and government, focusing
     of usage of FLOSS in gov, edu and focus at open standards in the services
     of the government. One day event, Software Freedom Day 2008 in
     Bratislava. Evening events for OooCon, counting from: sight seeing
     (Bratislava, Vienna by boat, Budapest by boat), drinking and socializing
     event, electronic music events, parties in clubs, dinner events and one
     big welcome dinner party, technical and hack events for geeks. There will
     be also outdoor sports, like trekking/hiking, mountain bikes and such
     available.</p>

     <h3>Special visa or entry requirements, e.g. vaccinations</h3>

     <p>Visas are needed only from countries outside EU. Visa rules are those
     who apply for Schengen zone.</p>
     <hr />

     <h2>Optional Information</h2>

     <h3>Large local OpenOffice.org deployments (for user keynotes and success
     stories)</h3>

     <h3>Names of local OpenOffice.org developers (for developer
     sessions)</h3>

     <h3>Names of local OpenOffice.org vendors/partners (potential
     sponsors)</h3>

     <ul>
       <li>OpenOffice Slovak team, and close relationship with OpenOffice
       Czech and Poland</li>

       <li>few large scale openoffice.org deployments</li>

       <li>educational sector using openoffice.org</li>

       <li>number of SMEs using openoffice.org</li>
     </ul>

     <h3>Travel costs</h3>

     <p>Coming by car information will be available on the event website,
     including maps and assistance.</p>

     <p>Flights are as follows:<br />
     Travel cost, airport Vienna, airport Bratislava, economy class and low
     cost airlines London – Vienna, AirBerlin (100eur), Austrian Airlines
     (150eur), Lufthansa (200eur), British Airways (200eur)<br />
     London – Bratislava, Czech Airlines (270eur), Lufthansa (300eur)<br />
     Paris – Vienna, AirBerlin (70eur), Austrian Airlines (90eur), SkyEurope
     (120eur), AirFrance (150eur), Lufthansa (200eur)<br />
     Paris – Bratislava, Czech Airlines (220eur), Lufthansa (290eur)<br />
     Rome – Vienna, Alitalia (85eur), Austrian Airlines (90eur), AirOne
     (120eur), Lufthansa (240eur)<br />
     Rome – Bratislava, Czech Airlines (230eur)<br />
     Beijing – Vienna, Aeroflot (800eur), Qatar Airlines (900eur), AirChina
     (1000eur), Lufthansa (1100eur)<br />
     Sydney – Vienna, British Airways (1300eur), Austrian Airlines
     (1500eur)<br />
     New York – Vienna, ** LOT Airlines (600eur), Alitalia (650eur), Iberia
     (700eur), British Airways (740eur), KLM Dutch Airlines (770eur)<br />
     New York – Bratislava, ** AirFrance (700eur), Lufthansa (800eur),<br />
     Hamburg – Vienna, ** AirBerlin (85eur), Lufthansa (100eur), Austrian
     Airlines (110eur),<br />
     Dublin – Vienna, ** AerLingus (190eur), Lufthansa (200eur),<br />
     Dublin – Bratislava, ** Czech Airlines (220eur), Lufthansa
     (350eur),<br />
     San Francisco – Vienna, ** LOT Airlines (700eur), Air New Zealand
     (730eur), Delta Airlines (780eur), San Francisco – Bratislava, **
     AirFrance (900eur)<br />
     Cape Town – Vienna, ** KLM Dutch Airlines (1000eur), British Airways
     (1050eur)<br />
     Tokyo – Vienna, ** Aeroflot (1000eur),<br />
     Tokyo - Bratislava ** Lufthansa (1050eur), Air France (1100eur)</p>

     <h3>Accomodation costs</h3>

     <h4>Accomodation costs youth hostel</h4><a href=
     "http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/25308/">Hostel
     Blues</a> (13.43eur shared / 19.40eur private)<br />
     <a href=
     "http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/6017/">Downtown
     backpackers hostel</a> (17.91eur shared / 23.88 private)<br />
     <a href=
     "http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/7385/">City
     Hostel</a> (private 19.40eur)<br />
     <a href=
     "http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/18074/">Hostel
     possonium</a> (14.92eur shared / 19.70eur private)<br />
     <a href=
     "http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/4253/">Patio
     Hostel</a> (13.43eur shared / 17.91eur private)<br />

     <h4>Accommodation costs apartments</h4><a href=
     "http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/13584/">Apartments
     Blue Danube</a> (private 26.86eur)<br />
     <a href=
     "http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/7074/">Apartments
     Martin</a> - Historical Centre (private 26.86eur)<br />

     <h4>Accomodation costs hotel</h4><a href=
     "http://www.bratislavahotels.com/hotel-matysak-bratislava">Hotel Matysak
     ***</a> (double twin single person 80eur/104eur, double twin
     88eur/115eur)<br />
     <a href="http://www.bratislavahotels.com/botel-marina-bratislava">Botel
     Marina ****</a> (boat hotel) (single bed 59eur, twin bed 85eur, suite
     101eur)<br />
     <a href="http://www.bratislavahotels.com/city-hotel-bratislava">City
     Hotel Bratislava</a> *** (single 60eur, twin bed 69eur, triple
     77eur)<br />
     <a href="http://www.bratislavahotels.com/hotel-kyjev-bratislava">Hotel
     Kyjev</a> ** ( single 52eur, twin bed 69eur)<br />
     <a href="http://www.bratislavahotels.com/old-city-hotel-bratislava">Old
     city hotel</a> (single 54eur, twin bed 60eur/80eur, triple bed
     83eur/107eur)
     <hr />

     <h2>Supplementary Information</h2>

     <div class="quotation">
       <p>The Call for Location states: user feedback from previous
       conferences suggest that the ideal location will:</p>

       <ul>
         <li>have a strong local OpenOffice.org community</li>

         <li>attract strong sponsor support</li>

         <li>have a low-cost/free conference centre with conference venues
         close together</li>

         <li>have facilities where people can pass the time, socialise, and
         mingle with other conference delegates close to the conference
         building(s)</li>

         <li>have a range of low-cost accomodation with easy/cheap transport
         to the conference location</li>

         <li>attract the largest number of community contributers</li>

         <li>facilitate the attendance of a large number of Sun's
         OpenOffice.org developers (who are in Hamburg, Germany)</li>

         <li>be accessible by cheap flight and train tickets</li>

         <li>be aligned with a large IT event (e.g. CeBIT, Systems,
         Comdex)</li>

         <li>provide low-cost broadband Internet access (e.g. wireless LAN in
         the rooms)</li>

         <li>allow for video and audio streaming (e.g. via the support of a
         company)</li>
       </ul>
     </div>

     <p><em>No Supplementary Information supplied</em></p>
     <hr />

     <h2>Attachments</h2>

     <p><a href="docs/bratislava_1.odt">A copy of the proposal in ODF</a></p>

     <p><a href="docs/bratislava_1.pdf">A copy of the proposal in PDF</a></p>.
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	<h1>Bratislava, Slovakia</h1>

	<h2>Proposal for OOoCon 2008</h2><br style="clear: left;" />

	<div id="midtabs">
	<ul>
	<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>

	<li><a href="amsterdam.html">Amsterdam</a></li>

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	</ul>
	</div>

	<div class="contentpart" id="contextualinformation">
	<br />
	<br />
	</div>

	<h2>Key Question</h2>

	<div class="quotation">
	<p>In 400 words or less, answer this question: Why is your location and
	the date you propose the best for OOoCon 2008?</p>
	</div>

	<p>Bratislava is a great place for hosting international conferences,
	some of the international conferences which happen in Bratislava are the
	biggest one in central Europe. Slovakia have very good activities with
	open source software mostly in educational sector, there are several
	schools using such solutions for teaching purposes. The open source
	community in Slovakia, which also include some business like
	international ones such as Novell, Sun, IBM and smaller national small
	and medium sized enterprise focused on open source software. We have also
	strong support from a company 602Office, which is using OpenOffice with
	their own build and are selling support on such solution. 602Office is
	really popular among Czechs and Slovaks, since early 90s the only
	software you used for writing documents was from them, basically they are
	still really famous. OooCon 2008 can have a very intensive impact on the
	educational processes in Slovakia, which is good for youth people who
	will become pro open source adults in the future. Also it will boost the
	general wisdom of open source software, OpenOffice application for usage
	in government and can put a lot of light on the Open Standards issues
	which the world is facing right now. Promotion of Open Document Format is
	also very important mostly in the Eastern parts of Europe, where the
	government is missing experts regarding Open Standards and services of
	the government.</p>
	<hr />

	<h2>Mandatory Information</h2>

	<h3>Location (country, city, conference center/university)</h3>

	<p>Slovakia, Bratislava, conference will be held in main park of culture
	center. Area of culture center buildings, can hold up to 2000 attendees
	in the main building, 500 attendees in the second building, is almost at
	the city center (10minutes by walk), is accessible by public transport
	(tram and bus) and is located on the old city center side of river
	danube. Main building offers various combination of smaller and bigger
	rooms which is ideal for workshops and bigger sessions. Bratislava is
	accessible by car via highways direction Prague – Berlin, Vienna,
	Budapest and Poland. Bratislava have three close international Airports,
	Airport Bratislava with mostly European flights (2km from Bratislava),
	Airport Vienna (20km from Bratislava / 20minutes by car) via highway
	Bratislava – Vienna and Airport Budapest reachable 1 hour driving by
	car.</p>

	<h3>Proposed Date(s)</h3>

	<p>Between 15 – 19 September / 22 – 26 September 2008, but we are
	flexible also for October, and we are counting using one weekend day for
	part of the conference if possible</p>

	<h3>Team Lead (main contact person)</h3>

	<p>Jan Husar (jan.husar (at) skosi.org) / SKOSI</p>

	<h3>Team Members</h3>

	<ul>
	<li>Jan Husar (team lead, jan.husar (at) skosi.org) / SKOSI + whole skosi
	team (around 10 people)</li>

	<li>Michal Vavak and Tomas Vencelik / New Media Group</li>

	<li>Miroslav Macko / Novell Slovakia</li>

	<li>Martina Pisonova and Eva Stefanova / Sun Microsystems Slovakia</li>

	<li>Juraj Bednar / Digmia</li>

	<li>Jozef Sves, Tana Sramerkova, Milos Sramek, Ales Kreman, Martina
	Lickova, Ivan Nudzik + people from open source communities such as
	Linuxos, SKLUG, mozilla, ubuntu, etc...</li>
	</ul>

	<h3>Local events that are taking place in parallel (or right
	before/after)</h3>

	<p>One day conference, Open Source in education and government, focusing
	of usage of FLOSS in gov, edu and focus at open standards in the services
	of the government. One day event, Software Freedom Day 2008 in
	Bratislava. Evening events for OooCon, counting from: sight seeing
	(Bratislava, Vienna by boat, Budapest by boat), drinking and socializing
	event, electronic music events, parties in clubs, dinner events and one
	big welcome dinner party, technical and hack events for geeks. There will
	be also outdoor sports, like trekking/hiking, mountain bikes and such
	available.</p>

	<h3>Special visa or entry requirements, e.g. vaccinations</h3>

	<p>Visas are needed only from countries outside EU. Visa rules are those
	who apply for Schengen zone.</p>
	<hr />

	<h2>Optional Information</h2>

	<h3>Large local OpenOffice.org deployments (for user keynotes and success
	stories)</h3>

	<h3>Names of local OpenOffice.org developers (for developer
	sessions)</h3>

	<h3>Names of local OpenOffice.org vendors/partners (potential
	sponsors)</h3>

	<ul>
	<li>OpenOffice Slovak team, and close relationship with OpenOffice
	Czech and Poland</li>

	<li>few large scale openoffice.org deployments</li>

	<li>educational sector using openoffice.org</li>

	<li>number of SMEs using openoffice.org</li>
	</ul>

	<h3>Travel costs</h3>

	<p>Coming by car information will be available on the event website,
	including maps and assistance.</p>

	<p>Flights are as follows:<br />
	Travel cost, airport Vienna, airport Bratislava, economy class and low
	cost airlines London – Vienna, AirBerlin (100eur), Austrian Airlines
	(150eur), Lufthansa (200eur), British Airways (200eur)<br />
	London – Bratislava, Czech Airlines (270eur), Lufthansa (300eur)<br />
	Paris – Vienna, AirBerlin (70eur), Austrian Airlines (90eur), SkyEurope
	(120eur), AirFrance (150eur), Lufthansa (200eur)<br />
	Paris – Bratislava, Czech Airlines (220eur), Lufthansa (290eur)<br />
	Rome – Vienna, Alitalia (85eur), Austrian Airlines (90eur), AirOne
	(120eur), Lufthansa (240eur)<br />
	Rome – Bratislava, Czech Airlines (230eur)<br />
	Beijing – Vienna, Aeroflot (800eur), Qatar Airlines (900eur), AirChina
	(1000eur), Lufthansa (1100eur)<br />
	Sydney – Vienna, British Airways (1300eur), Austrian Airlines
	(1500eur)<br />
	New York – Vienna, ** LOT Airlines (600eur), Alitalia (650eur), Iberia
	(700eur), British Airways (740eur), KLM Dutch Airlines (770eur)<br />
	New York – Bratislava, ** AirFrance (700eur), Lufthansa (800eur),<br />
	Hamburg – Vienna, ** AirBerlin (85eur), Lufthansa (100eur), Austrian
	Airlines (110eur),<br />
	Dublin – Vienna, ** AerLingus (190eur), Lufthansa (200eur),<br />
	Dublin – Bratislava, ** Czech Airlines (220eur), Lufthansa
	(350eur),<br />
	San Francisco – Vienna, ** LOT Airlines (700eur), Air New Zealand
	(730eur), Delta Airlines (780eur), San Francisco – Bratislava, **
	AirFrance (900eur)<br />
	Cape Town – Vienna, ** KLM Dutch Airlines (1000eur), British Airways
	(1050eur)<br />
	Tokyo – Vienna, ** Aeroflot (1000eur),<br />
	Tokyo - Bratislava ** Lufthansa (1050eur), Air France (1100eur)</p>

	<h3>Accomodation costs</h3>

	<h4>Accomodation costs youth hostel</h4><a href=
	"http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/25308/">Hostel
	Blues</a> (13.43eur shared / 19.40eur private)<br />
	<a href=
	"http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/6017/">Downtown
	backpackers hostel</a> (17.91eur shared / 23.88 private)<br />
	<a href=
	"http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/7385/">City
	Hostel</a> (private 19.40eur)<br />
	<a href=
	"http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/18074/">Hostel
	possonium</a> (14.92eur shared / 19.70eur private)<br />
	<a href=
	"http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/4253/">Patio
	Hostel</a> (13.43eur shared / 17.91eur private)<br />

	<h4>Accommodation costs apartments</h4><a href=
	"http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/13584/">Apartments
	Blue Danube</a> (private 26.86eur)<br />
	<a href=
	"http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/slovakia/bratislava/7074/">Apartments
	Martin</a> - Historical Centre (private 26.86eur)<br />

	<h4>Accomodation costs hotel</h4><a href=
	"http://www.bratislavahotels.com/hotel-matysak-bratislava">Hotel Matysak
	***</a> (double twin single person 80eur/104eur, double twin
	88eur/115eur)<br />
	<a href="http://www.bratislavahotels.com/botel-marina-bratislava">Botel
	Marina ****</a> (boat hotel) (single bed 59eur, twin bed 85eur, suite
	101eur)<br />
	<a href="http://www.bratislavahotels.com/city-hotel-bratislava">City
	Hotel Bratislava</a> *** (single 60eur, twin bed 69eur, triple
	77eur)<br />
	<a href="http://www.bratislavahotels.com/hotel-kyjev-bratislava">Hotel
	Kyjev</a> ** ( single 52eur, twin bed 69eur)<br />
	<a href="http://www.bratislavahotels.com/old-city-hotel-bratislava">Old
	city hotel</a> (single 54eur, twin bed 60eur/80eur, triple bed
	83eur/107eur)
	<hr />

	<h2>Supplementary Information</h2>

	<div class="quotation">
	<p>The Call for Location states: user feedback from previous
	conferences suggest that the ideal location will:</p>

	<ul>
	<li>have a strong local OpenOffice.org community</li>

	<li>attract strong sponsor support</li>

	<li>have a low-cost/free conference centre with conference venues
	close together</li>

	<li>have facilities where people can pass the time, socialise, and
	mingle with other conference delegates close to the conference
	building(s)</li>

	<li>have a range of low-cost accomodation with easy/cheap transport
	to the conference location</li>

	<li>attract the largest number of community contributers</li>

	<li>facilitate the attendance of a large number of Sun's
	OpenOffice.org developers (who are in Hamburg, Germany)</li>

	<li>be accessible by cheap flight and train tickets</li>

	<li>be aligned with a large IT event (e.g. CeBIT, Systems,
	Comdex)</li>

	<li>provide low-cost broadband Internet access (e.g. wireless LAN in
	the rooms)</li>

	<li>allow for video and audio streaming (e.g. via the support of a
	company)</li>
	</ul>
	</div>

	<p><em>No Supplementary Information supplied</em></p>
	<hr />

	<h2>Attachments</h2>

	<p><a href="docs/bratislava_1.odt">A copy of the proposal in ODF</a></p>

	<p><a href="docs/bratislava_1.pdf">A copy of the proposal in PDF</a></p>.
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