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| <h1>Orvieto, Italy</h1> |
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| <h2>Proposal for OOoCon 2008</h2><br style="clear: left;" /> |
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| <h2>Key Question</h2> |
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| <p>In 400 words or less, answer this question: Why is your location and |
| the date you propose the best for OOoCon 2008?</p> |
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| <p>The city of Orvieto, with its 21,000 inhabitants, is one of the most |
| charming cities of art in Italy. Located in Umbria, in the heart of |
| Italy, it's 100 km far from Rome and 140 km from Florence and easy to |
| reach by plane, train and car.</p> |
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| <p>It is a center for courses leading to university degrees (Informatics |
| and Telecommunications Engineering), post-graduate courses (Architecture, |
| Health Psychology, Archaeology), as well as specialization courses of |
| prestigious Italian universities.</p> |
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| <p>The plateau with its tufa cliff walls defines the area of the |
| historical center of Orvieto – a stupendous palimpsest of Etruscan, |
| Medieval and Renaissance structures. The city is known for its efficient |
| congress facilities and a qualified service network for hospitality. |
| Restaurants, wine and champagne bars and pubs offer a variety of the fine |
| wines and foods for which Orvieto is famous. These features together with |
| the intact environment, pleasant climate and a system of alternative |
| mobility make the city ideal for meetings, seminars and study days of all |
| kinds.</p> |
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| <p>Not by chance Orvieto, world capital of good living (“Cittaslow”), has |
| hosted important national and international appointments: Slow Food World |
| Congress, Hydrogencities foundation (with J. Rifkin) and it is site of |
| prestigious cultural events during the year which include Umbria Jazz |
| Winter, Barzini Award for the special correspondent (in collaboration |
| with the Corriere della Sera), the International Award for Human Rights, |
| outstanding Art exhibits, Conventions and post-graduate studies of |
| American universities.</p> |
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| <p>The political-administrative context is particularly favorable for the |
| diffusion of open source culture. Umbria – the region in which Orvieto is |
| located – was one of the first Italian regions to approve a law on |
| “informatics pluralism” and to have instituted (L.R. n. 11 of 2006) a |
| Center of Competence on Open Source that works to favor the introduction |
| of open source software in the Public Administration and in the schools. |
| This year 80 projects will be financed, 60 of which plan for the |
| introduction of OpenOffice.org in the local institutions, 4 are projects |
| from Orvieto.</p> |
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| <p>The Municipal Administration totally supports the candidature of |
| Orvieto as an OOoCon2008 center, already translated into precise |
| commitments for logistic and organizational collaboration.</p> |
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| <p>We would like to introduce some changes with the OOoCon2008. The most |
| important is to hold an Italian session, in parallel with the normal |
| international ones, in order to attract more people from our country and |
| promote the OOo adoption.</p> |
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| <h2>Mandatory Information</h2> |
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| <h3>Location (country, city, conference center/university)</h3> |
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| <p>Two structures are at disposal for the organization: The Palazzo del |
| Popolo Conference Centre and the Palazzo dei Sette. They are both located |
| in the heart of the city, within walking distance from the main hotels. |
| They are all equipped with wireless-lan (for each participant), |
| amplification systems, audiovisual systems for projection and recording, |
| teleconferencing systems.</p> |
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| <p>Every speech will be recorded in audio and video and a videostreaming |
| service for the OOoCon will be setup.</p> |
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| <p>Several rooms will be available for public and private group |
| meetings.</p> |
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| <p>Structures are close together and located in the city center where |
| people can walk around and enjoy several pubs, restaurants and shops |
| available.</p> |
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| <h3>Proposed Date(s)</h3> |
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| <p>October 1-2-3, 2008</p> |
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| <h3>Team Lead (main contact person)</h3> |
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| <p>Diego Frascati – OrvietoLUG and Davide Dozza (Associazione PLIO)</p> |
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| <h3>Team Members</h3> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Marco Ciammella, Carlo Villani, Vittorio Gaddi – OrvietoLUG</li> |
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| <li>Andrea Pescetti, Paolo Mantovani, Roberto Galoppini, Italo Vignoli, |
| Francesca Beatrice Cice, Maurizio Berti, Daniela Volta, Andrea Sanavia |
| - (IT native-lang project and Associazione PLIO)</li> |
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| <li>Carlo Tonelli - Municipality of Orvieto</li> |
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| <li>Paolo Scattoni - University Roma La Sapienza</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>Event Organisation Team</p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Associazione PLIO - Progetto Linguistico Italiano OpenOffice.org |
| (it native-lang project)</li> |
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| <li>Associazione OrvietoLUG – Orvieto Linux User Group</li> |
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| <li>Municipality of Orvieto – Assessorato all'informatizzazione</li> |
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| <li>Fondazione per il Centro Studi “Città di Orvieto”</li> |
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| <li>Consorzio SIR Umbria – Servizio informativo regionale</li> |
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| <li>CCOS Umbria - Centro di Competenza Regionale sul l'Open Source</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h3>Local events that are taking place in parallel (or right |
| before/after)</h3> |
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| <p><a href="http://www.smau.it/english/index.asp">SMAU International |
| Exhibition of Information & communication technology</a> October |
| 15-18</p> |
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| <h3>Special visa or entry requirements, e.g. vaccinations</h3> |
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| <p>Italy is part of the Schengen Agreement. People traveling from outside |
| of Schengen Area have to verify if they need a visa.</p> |
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| <h2>Optional Information</h2> |
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| <h3>Large local OpenOffice.org deployments (for user keynotes and success |
| stories)</h3> |
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| <p>As the OOo adoption in Italy is a bottom-up process, the small |
| organizations are the most active in OOo migrations. Anyway several |
| regions are migrating to OOo (e.g. Regione Toscana, Regione Umbria) and |
| many others smaller PA (municipalities).</p> |
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| <p>Interesting experience is the Chamber of Deputies which are migrating |
| to OOo and Desktop Linux.</p> |
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| <p>Another interesting experience is the COSPA Project which director, |
| prof. Succi, kept a presentation as keynote speaker at OooCon2005.</p> |
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| <h3>Names of local OpenOffice.org developers (for developer |
| sessions)</h3> |
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| <p>Paolo Mantovani and Giuseppe Castagno are the best known developers in |
| Italian community. Anyway we don't exclude the participation of other |
| people.</p> |
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| <h3>Names of local OpenOffice.org vendors/partners (potential |
| sponsors)</h3> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Umbria Region Open Source Competence Center - CCOS Umbria</li> |
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| <li>Municipality of Orvieto</li> |
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| <li>Large OOo contributors like SUN, IBM, NOVELL, etc.</li> |
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| <li>Local IT companies delivering OOo services which are numerous in |
| Italy</li> |
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| <li>Some local sponsor offering local products for example in food</li> |
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| <li>Bank foundations and institutional agencies<</li></li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h3>Travel costs</h3> |
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| <h4>By plane</h4> |
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| <p>Low cost flights landing at Roma Fiumicino and Roma Ciampino are also |
| available. International Airport Leonardo da Vinci (Rome Fiumicino) is |
| about 130 km far from Orvieto. From Fiumicino Airport, Trains “Leonardo |
| Express” run every day, every 30 minutes from 6:37 a.m. to 11:37 p.m. and |
| take you directly to the Roma Termini Train Station in 35 minutes. |
| Ciampino Airport is about 150 km from Orvieto. From the airport buses |
| take you directly to the Roma Ciampino train station. From here take a |
| train to Roma Termini.</p> |
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| <p>Orvieto is very easy to reach by train from Rome. For more |
| information, please visit the website <a href= |
| "http://www.adr.it">http://www.adr.it</a>.</p> |
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| <p>To facilitate SUN's OpenOffice.org developers and other groups: Bus |
| transfers from meeting points (i.e. Fiumicino airport and Ciampino |
| airport) to Orvieto will be organized.</p> |
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| <p>Flight rates (in Euros): London – Rome - London: From 117,15; Paris – |
| Rome - Paris: From 135,98; Hamburg – Rome - Hamburg: From 173,90; Beijing |
| – Rome - Beijing: From 760,23; Sydney – Rome - Sydney: From 1368,04; New |
| York – Rome – New York: From 625,79; Dublin – Rome - Dublin: From 173,90; |
| San Francisco – Rome – San Francisco: From 822,91; Cape Town – Rome – |
| Cape Town: From 648,64; Tokyo – Rome – Tokyo: From 1076,81.</p> |
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| <h4>By Train</h4> |
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| <p>From Roma Termini Station (direction Florence) a train each |
| hour.<br /> |
| Trip duration: around 1 hour.<br /> |
| From Florence (direction Rome) a train each hour.<br /> |
| Trip duration: around 1 hour and half, two hours.<br /> |
| For more information and for the train schedules please visit the website |
| <a href="http://www.trenitalia.com">http://www.trenitalia.com</a>.</p> |
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| <h4>By car</h4> |
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| <p>Orvieto is located quite at the same distance from Florence and Rome |
| on the the A1 Highway. From South, take the A1 highway Florence direction |
| and from North, take the A1 Highway Rome Direction. Orvieto exit is about |
| 4 km from the city centre.</p> |
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| <h3>Accomodation costs (youth hostel, hotel)</h3> |
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| <p>Hotel and B&B accommodation: from 25 to 70 euros (special prices |
| for the participants).</p> |
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| <p>Special conditions and discounts, for all the participants are |
| available for various types of services.</p> |
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| <h2>Supplementary Information</h2> |
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| <div class="quotation"> |
| <p>The Call for Location states: user feedback from previous |
| conferences suggest that the ideal location will:</p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>have a strong local OpenOffice.org community</li> |
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| <li>attract strong sponsor support</li> |
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| <li>have a low-cost/free conference centre with conference venues |
| close together</li> |
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| <li>have facilities where people can pass the time, socialise, and |
| mingle with other conference delegates close to the conference |
| building(s)</li> |
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| <li>have a range of low-cost accomodation with easy/cheap transport |
| to the conference location</li> |
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| <li>attract the largest number of community contributers</li> |
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| <li>facilitate the attendance of a large number of Sun's |
| OpenOffice.org developers (who are in Hamburg, Germany)</li> |
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| <li>be accessible by cheap flight and train tickets</li> |
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| <li>be aligned with a large IT event (e.g. CeBIT, Systems, |
| Comdex)</li> |
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| <li>provide low-cost broadband Internet access (e.g. wireless LAN in |
| the rooms)</li> |
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| <li>allow for video and audio streaming (e.g. via the support of a |
| company)</li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
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| <h3>Conference Rooms</h3> |
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| <p><strong>Palazzo del Popolo (Centro Congressi)</strong></p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>“<strong>Sala dei 400”</strong></p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>seats 350 people</p> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <p>size 30 x 13 mt</p> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <p>loc. First floor</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <p>“<strong>Sala Etrusca”</strong></p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>120 people in plenary seating, it can be divided into 2 or 3 |
| smaller independent hall for group of 15/50 participants</p> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <p>size 15 x 10 mt</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <p>loc. underground floor</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <p>“<strong>Sala Expo” - Meeting area</strong></p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>seats 200 people</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <p>size 22 x 10 mt</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <p>loc. ground floor</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <p>uses:</p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>wireless connection area</p> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <p>refreshment area</p> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <p>coffee - wine bar</p> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <p>sponsors area</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <p>use of workstations (with GNU/Linux and OpenOffice.Org) |
| for free</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <p><strong>Sala relatori – Spokesperson hall</strong></p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>up to 12 people reunions or 25 people meetings</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <p><strong>Sala stampa – Press hall</strong></p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>up to 20 people meetings</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p><br /></p> |
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| <p><strong>Palazzo dei sette</strong></p> |
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| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p><strong>Atrio 1 – Atrium 1</strong></p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>size 9 x 6 mt</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <p>use for sponsors area</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <p>loc. ground floor</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <p><strong>Atrio 2 – Atrium 2</strong></p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>size 12 x 9 mt</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <p>use for sponsors area</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <p>loc. ground floor</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <p>“<strong>Sala del Governatore”</strong></p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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| <div style="margin-left: 2em"> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>seats up to 100 people</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <p>size 13 x 9 mt</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li style="list-style: none"> |
| <ul> |
| <li value="1"> |
| <p>loc. First floor</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <p>“<strong>Sala delle Capriate”</strong></p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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| <div style="margin-left: 2em"> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>seats up to 100 people</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <p>size 12,5 x 10 mt</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
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| <ul> |
| <li style="list-style: none"> |
| <ul> |
| <li value="1"> |
| <p>loc. Second floor</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <p>“<strong>Salone del 2° piano”</strong></p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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| <div style="margin-left: 2em"> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p>seats up to 120 people</p> |
| </li> |
| |
| <li> |
| <p>size 16 x 7 mt</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
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| <div style="margin-left: 2em"> |
| <ul> |
| <li value="1"> |
| <p>loc. Second floor</p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
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| <h3>Conference Fee</h3> |
| |
| <p>Both the structure (Palazzo del Popolo – 1700 Euro / day, Palazzo dei |
| Sette – 1500 Euro / day) will be placed at the Conference disposal by the |
| Comune of Orvieto (City Hall) for free.</p> |
| |
| <p>The participation will be free (as in freedom) and free (as in |
| beer).</p> |
| |
| <h3>Local Organization</h3> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li>Comune di Orvieto (City Hall) – 4 or more people for technical |
| support and driver service</li> |
| |
| <li>Associazione OrvietoLUG – 5 or more people for every kind of |
| service</li> |
| |
| <li>Fondazione Centro Studi “Città di Orvieto” - 1 or more person</li> |
| |
| <li>Other societies – 6 or more people for reservation and |
| accommodation service and hostess service</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <h3>Local OOo Community</h3> |
| |
| <p>The local OOo Community is structured as a registered, non-profit |
| organization that allows to receive contributions both from private and |
| public entities. Volunteers are involved in several activities for the |
| Italian OOo community from support to evangelization. The community |
| organizes an annual conference on OOo in Italian, and participates in |
| dozens of events around the country. Only in 2007 we had about 1.8 |
| million of downloads.</p> |
| |
| <h3>Free time activities</h3> |
| |
| <p>Some events will be arranged during the conference:</p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li>A welcome party at the first conference day</li> |
| |
| <li>A guided tour of the town</li> |
| |
| <li>Some tastes of wine and local products</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <h3>More Info</h3> |
| |
| <p>As for OOoCon 2005, parts of funds left after the conference will be |
| donated to associations arranging the conference and the rest will be |
| donated to the next OOoCon organizers.</p> |
| <hr /> |
| |
| <h2>Attachments</h2> |
| |
| <p><a href="docs/orvieto_1.odt">A copy of the proposal in ODF</a></p> |
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