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     <h2>Section 1 – Mandatory Information</h2>

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

     <p>Early September of 2009</p>

     <h3>Location (country, city)</h3>

     <p>Budapest, Hungary</p>

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

     <p><strong>EU citizens</strong> are not required to obtain a visa.</p>

     <p><strong>Non-EU citizens</strong> require a visa to enter Hungary
     unless a special agreement exists between your home country and Hungary.
     These countries are:</p>

     <p>The United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Japan, Taiwan, Korea,
     New Zealand.</p>

     <p>If you are one of these nationalities, you may enter Hungary without a
     visa for stays of up to 90 days in any six-month period.</p>

     <p><strong>A visa is required for citizens of the following
     countries:</strong></p>

     <p>Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
     Cambodia, China, Columbia, Cuba, Ecuador, Georgia, India, Iran, Yemen,
     Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malta, Morocco, Moldova, Mongolia,
     Montenegro, Peru, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of the Philippines,
     Russia, Seychelles, Serbia, South-Africa, Swaziland, Tajikistan,
     Thailand, Turkey, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam</p>

     <p><strong>Obtaining a visa</strong><br />
     If you require a visa to visit Hungary, please visit the following page:
     <a href=
     "http://www.traveldocs.com/hu/vr.htm">http://www.traveldocs.com/hu/vr.htm</a>.</p>

     <p>If you are still unsure whether you require a visa, please check the
     website of the <a href="http://www.kulugyminiszterium.hu/">Hungarian
     Ministry of Foreign Affairs</a>.</p>

     <p><strong>N.B. No vaccinations are required to enter
     Hungary.</strong></p>

     <h3>Conference venue(s) (e.g. university campus, municipal
     buildings)</h3>

     <p>The site of the conference is the Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE),
     which has 3,500 students in its IT faculty at the “<a href=
     "http://www.infopark-budapest.hu/">Innovation and Technology Park</a>” of
     Budapest (which employs 7,500 people in the IT, telecoms and software
     industries).</p>

     <p>As the conference centre building offers a combination of smaller and
     larger rooms for both workshops and larger sessions, and has hosted
     several global events in recent years (of the size of OOoCon and above),
     it would facilitate more speeches, workshops, presentations and
     roundtable discussions than at previous OpenOffice.org conferences.</p>

     <h3>Conference facilities (e.g. WiFi, video streaming/recording)</h3>

     <p>The building is equipped with advanced facilities such as a
     <strong>high-tech presentation hall</strong> capable of holding 600
     people, along with several different size <strong>auditorium with
     PCs</strong> and a <strong>WIFI network</strong> all in the same
     building. Accommodation and Budapest's city center are also easily
     accessible from the event site with public transport.</p>

     <p>Our experiences proved that the infrastructure (<strong>high-quality
     sound system</strong>, conference hall, Wifi, special IT rooms with PCs)
     makes the venue an ideal setting for this kind of conference.</p>

     <p>An attractive web page will be built to ensure delivery of up-to-date
     information to guests as well as detailed materials for the press. We
     will <strong>broadcast the presentations of the keynote speakers in
     realtime</strong> on the dedicated website. To <strong>ease social
     networking</strong> we will publish a personal page with a photo and
     short description of each speaker and registered member that choose this
     option.</p>

     <p>We would like to allow numerous creatives, technologists, scientists
     and programmers the chance to share their interesting ideas at the
     conference. For that reason, one of the days of this conference will be
     set up as a BarCamp, at which a huge number of spokespeople can propose a
     presentation and attendees will themselves decide on which conference
     topics and activities will take place on that day. Every registered guest
     can vote online on the official web page of the conference.</p>

     <h3>Accommodation (especially any low cost hostels etc)</h3>

     <p>September is the favourite period of tourists for city breaks, so the
     organizers are ready to make block reservations for the participants. The
     organizers will also give support (tel., email) to help you to make the
     reservation in the recommended accommodation. All hotels recommended are
     standard European quality and price.</p>

     <h3>External transport links (nearest airport(s))</h3>

     <p>Hungary is located in the centre of Europe, therefore all the major
     worldwide airlines (such as British Airways, Lufthansa, Air France,
     Alitalia, SAS, Aeroflot, etc) fly to Ferihegy Airport. The Hungarian
     national airline – MALEV also offers daily connections to all the
     European capitals.</p>

     <p>An average return flight ticket from any European country to Budapest
     may cost between EUR 150 and EUR 450, although flying by low-cost
     airlines can make big savings.</p>

     <p>Budapest Airport: <a href=
     "http://www.bud.hu/english">http://www.bud.hu/english</a></p>

     <h3>Internal transport links (within city)</h3>

     <p>We will provide a three-day ticket for all means of public transport
     in Budapest to all registered guests.</p>

     <p>Check the link of “Budapest Transport”: <a href=
     "http://www.bkv.hu/english/home/index.html">http://www.bkv.hu/english/home/index.html</a></p>

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

     <p>Peter SZAKAL <a href="http://www.openskm.com/">Open SKM Agency
     Ltd.</a>)</p>

     <h3>Team Members</h3>

     <ul>
       <li>
         <p>Gabor SZENTIVANYI Phd., <a href="http://www.lipsz.hu/">LIPSZ</a>
         (Linux Industrial Association), Hungary</p>
       </li>

       <li>
         <p>Daniel DARABOS, <a href="http://www.multiracio.hu/">MultiRáció
         Ltd.</a>, Hungary</p>
       </li>

       <li>
         <p>Zsolt BAGOLY Phd, <a href=
         "http://www.elte.hu/en/index.html/">Eötvös University</a>,
         Hungary</p>
       </li>

       <li>
         <p>Rudolf FERENC Phd., <a href="http://www.u-szeged.hu/">University
         of Szeged</a>, Hungary</p>
       </li>

       <li>
         <p>Attila SUHAJDA, <a href="http://www.ibm.com/hu/">IBM Hungary</a>,
         Hungary</p>
       </li>

       <li>
         <p>Tamas POLNER, <a href="http://hu.sun.com/">SUN Microsystems
         Hungary</a></p>
       </li>

       <li>
         <p>Kazmer KOLESZAR, <a href="http://www.multiracio.hu/">MultiRáció
         Ltd.</a>, Hungary</p>
       </li>

       <li>
         <p>Andras TIMAR, <a href="http://www.fsf.hu/">FSF.hu</a>, project
         owner of the Hungarian Native-Lang project</p>
       </li>
     </ul>

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

     <ul>
       <li>
         <p><a href=
         "http://www.futanet.hu/verseny/2009/nike/fr_nike.html">International
         Half Marathon</a> – 6 September 2009</p>
       </li>

       <li>
         <p><a href=
         "http://www.szeptemberfeszt.com/index.php?lang=eng">SzeptEmber
         Feszt</a>, Gastronomy, Culture and Entertainment – 4-6 September
         2009</p>
       </li>

       <li>
         <p><a href="http://www.bnv.hu/?_nyelv_=en">Budapest International
         Fair</a> – date: 10-14 September 2008</p>
       </li>

       <li>
         <p><a href="http://www.aborfesztival.hu/index.php?lang=en">Budapest
         International Wine Festival 2009</a> – date: 9-13. September 2009</p>
       </li>
     </ul>

     <h2>Section 2 – Proposal</h2>

     <p>In 400 words or less, answer this question:</p>

     <div class="quotation">
       <p>Why should the Community award OOoCon 2009/2010 to your team?</p>
     </div>

     <p>We are proud to propose Budapest as a location for the 2009
     OpenOffice.org Conference.</p>

     <p>Hungary has a <strong>large and enthusiastic community of
     OpenOffice.org localizers and developers</strong> who have managed
     numerous OpenOffice.org related developments: extensions (OxygenOffice,
     EuroOffice), quality assurance of OpenOffice.org code, the Hungarian
     spell check library (HunSpell) and several value-added localized
     OpenOffice.org code-based products (StarOffice, EuroOffice). A consortium
     of local companies and universities won a EUR 2.1 million tender in 2008.
     The aim of this three-year project is to develop a software quality
     assurance service-package for open document format applications and
     thereby increase the level of inter-interoperability of OpenOffice.org.
     This will significantly strengthen its position on the worldwide
     corporate market.</p>

     <p>The OOoCon 2009 event in Budapest is already attracting <strong>a
     large number of potential supporters and sponsors</strong>, including the
     government and universities, as well as multinational and local vendors,
     as our preliminary negotiations with them have clearly demonstrated.</p>

     <p>All the recommended <strong>accommodation offers easy access to the
     location of the conference</strong> (InfoPark) and also to the city
     center. We will also provide a <strong>three-day ticket for all means of
     public transport in Budapest to all registered guests</strong>.</p>

     <p>To avoid any problems we will ensure a printed <strong>information
     package</strong> (city map, emergency card, conference map, schedule,
     important telephone numbers, recommended bars and restaurants, etc) and
     will send the same files by email to all our registered guests. We also
     guarantee a <strong>contact person, who will be on hand</strong> in the
     event of any problems, from co-ordination to visa issues.</p>

     <p>The organizers of OOoCon 2009 are offering a <strong>sponsorship
     program for long-term OpenOffice.org contributors</strong> - who will all
     be offered a hotel room free of charge.</p>

     <p>We offer the following entertaining facilities for our guests free of
     charge:</p>

     <ul>
       <li>
         <p><strong>Banquet in the Salon of</strong> <a href=
         "http://www.spasbudapest.com/furdo.php?idx=14"><strong>Bath
         Szechenyi</strong></a><br />
         Aperitif and wine tasting, Experience the celebrated Szechenyi
         Bath</p>
       </li>

       <li>
         <p><strong>Excursion to the historic royal city of</strong> <a href=
         "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visegr%C3%A1d"><strong>Visegrad</strong></a><br />

         Visit to the famous fortress of King Mathias, Dinner at a medieval
         <a href=
         "http://www.renvisegrad.hu/index.php?setLanguage=en">renaissance-style
         restaurant</a>, “Knights' Tournaments” - special medieval surprise
         for the guests</p>
       </li>
     </ul>

     <h2>Attachments</h2>

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

     <p><a href="docs/budapest.pdf">A copy of the proposal in PDF</a></p>
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	<h1>Budapest, Hungary<br />
	Proposal for OOoCon</h1><br style="clear: left;" />

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

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	<li><a href="cfl.html" title="Call for Location">CfL</a></li>
	</ul>
	</div>

	<h2>Section 1 – Mandatory Information</h2>

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

	<p>Early September of 2009</p>

	<h3>Location (country, city)</h3>

	<p>Budapest, Hungary</p>

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

	<p><strong>EU citizens</strong> are not required to obtain a visa.</p>

	<p><strong>Non-EU citizens</strong> require a visa to enter Hungary
	unless a special agreement exists between your home country and Hungary.
	These countries are:</p>

	<p>The United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Japan, Taiwan, Korea,
	New Zealand.</p>

	<p>If you are one of these nationalities, you may enter Hungary without a
	visa for stays of up to 90 days in any six-month period.</p>

	<p><strong>A visa is required for citizens of the following
	countries:</strong></p>

	<p>Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
	Cambodia, China, Columbia, Cuba, Ecuador, Georgia, India, Iran, Yemen,
	Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malta, Morocco, Moldova, Mongolia,
	Montenegro, Peru, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of the Philippines,
	Russia, Seychelles, Serbia, South-Africa, Swaziland, Tajikistan,
	Thailand, Turkey, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam</p>

	<p><strong>Obtaining a visa</strong><br />
	If you require a visa to visit Hungary, please visit the following page:
	<a href=
	"http://www.traveldocs.com/hu/vr.htm">http://www.traveldocs.com/hu/vr.htm</a>.</p>

	<p>If you are still unsure whether you require a visa, please check the
	website of the <a href="http://www.kulugyminiszterium.hu/">Hungarian
	Ministry of Foreign Affairs</a>.</p>

	<p><strong>N.B. No vaccinations are required to enter
	Hungary.</strong></p>

	<h3>Conference venue(s) (e.g. university campus, municipal
	buildings)</h3>

	<p>The site of the conference is the Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE),
	which has 3,500 students in its IT faculty at the “<a href=
	"http://www.infopark-budapest.hu/">Innovation and Technology Park</a>” of
	Budapest (which employs 7,500 people in the IT, telecoms and software
	industries).</p>

	<p>As the conference centre building offers a combination of smaller and
	larger rooms for both workshops and larger sessions, and has hosted
	several global events in recent years (of the size of OOoCon and above),
	it would facilitate more speeches, workshops, presentations and
	roundtable discussions than at previous OpenOffice.org conferences.</p>

	<h3>Conference facilities (e.g. WiFi, video streaming/recording)</h3>

	<p>The building is equipped with advanced facilities such as a
	<strong>high-tech presentation hall</strong> capable of holding 600
	people, along with several different size <strong>auditorium with
	PCs</strong> and a <strong>WIFI network</strong> all in the same
	building. Accommodation and Budapest's city center are also easily
	accessible from the event site with public transport.</p>

	<p>Our experiences proved that the infrastructure (<strong>high-quality
	sound system</strong>, conference hall, Wifi, special IT rooms with PCs)
	makes the venue an ideal setting for this kind of conference.</p>

	<p>An attractive web page will be built to ensure delivery of up-to-date
	information to guests as well as detailed materials for the press. We
	will <strong>broadcast the presentations of the keynote speakers in
	realtime</strong> on the dedicated website. To <strong>ease social
	networking</strong> we will publish a personal page with a photo and
	short description of each speaker and registered member that choose this
	option.</p>

	<p>We would like to allow numerous creatives, technologists, scientists
	and programmers the chance to share their interesting ideas at the
	conference. For that reason, one of the days of this conference will be
	set up as a BarCamp, at which a huge number of spokespeople can propose a
	presentation and attendees will themselves decide on which conference
	topics and activities will take place on that day. Every registered guest
	can vote online on the official web page of the conference.</p>

	<h3>Accommodation (especially any low cost hostels etc)</h3>

	<p>September is the favourite period of tourists for city breaks, so the
	organizers are ready to make block reservations for the participants. The
	organizers will also give support (tel., email) to help you to make the
	reservation in the recommended accommodation. All hotels recommended are
	standard European quality and price.</p>

	<h3>External transport links (nearest airport(s))</h3>

	<p>Hungary is located in the centre of Europe, therefore all the major
	worldwide airlines (such as British Airways, Lufthansa, Air France,
	Alitalia, SAS, Aeroflot, etc) fly to Ferihegy Airport. The Hungarian
	national airline – MALEV also offers daily connections to all the
	European capitals.</p>

	<p>An average return flight ticket from any European country to Budapest
	may cost between EUR 150 and EUR 450, although flying by low-cost
	airlines can make big savings.</p>

	<p>Budapest Airport: <a href=
	"http://www.bud.hu/english">http://www.bud.hu/english</a></p>

	<h3>Internal transport links (within city)</h3>

	<p>We will provide a three-day ticket for all means of public transport
	in Budapest to all registered guests.</p>

	<p>Check the link of “Budapest Transport”: <a href=
	"http://www.bkv.hu/english/home/index.html">http://www.bkv.hu/english/home/index.html</a></p>

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

	<p>Peter SZAKAL <a href="http://www.openskm.com/">Open SKM Agency
	Ltd.</a>)</p>

	<h3>Team Members</h3>

	<ul>
	<li>
	<p>Gabor SZENTIVANYI Phd., <a href="http://www.lipsz.hu/">LIPSZ</a>
	(Linux Industrial Association), Hungary</p>
	</li>

	<li>
	<p>Daniel DARABOS, <a href="http://www.multiracio.hu/">MultiRáció
	Ltd.</a>, Hungary</p>
	</li>

	<li>
	<p>Zsolt BAGOLY Phd, <a href=
	"http://www.elte.hu/en/index.html/">Eötvös University</a>,
	Hungary</p>
	</li>

	<li>
	<p>Rudolf FERENC Phd., <a href="http://www.u-szeged.hu/">University
	of Szeged</a>, Hungary</p>
	</li>

	<li>
	<p>Attila SUHAJDA, <a href="http://www.ibm.com/hu/">IBM Hungary</a>,
	Hungary</p>
	</li>

	<li>
	<p>Tamas POLNER, <a href="http://hu.sun.com/">SUN Microsystems
	Hungary</a></p>
	</li>

	<li>
	<p>Kazmer KOLESZAR, <a href="http://www.multiracio.hu/">MultiRáció
	Ltd.</a>, Hungary</p>
	</li>

	<li>
	<p>Andras TIMAR, <a href="http://www.fsf.hu/">FSF.hu</a>, project
	owner of the Hungarian Native-Lang project</p>
	</li>
	</ul>

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

	<ul>
	<li>
	<p><a href=
	"http://www.futanet.hu/verseny/2009/nike/fr_nike.html">International
	Half Marathon</a> – 6 September 2009</p>
	</li>

	<li>
	<p><a href=
	"http://www.szeptemberfeszt.com/index.php?lang=eng">SzeptEmber
	Feszt</a>, Gastronomy, Culture and Entertainment – 4-6 September
	2009</p>
	</li>

	<li>
	<p><a href="http://www.bnv.hu/?_nyelv_=en">Budapest International
	Fair</a> – date: 10-14 September 2008</p>
	</li>

	<li>
	<p><a href="http://www.aborfesztival.hu/index.php?lang=en">Budapest
	International Wine Festival 2009</a> – date: 9-13. September 2009</p>
	</li>
	</ul>

	<h2>Section 2 – Proposal</h2>

	<p>In 400 words or less, answer this question:</p>

	<div class="quotation">
	<p>Why should the Community award OOoCon 2009/2010 to your team?</p>
	</div>

	<p>We are proud to propose Budapest as a location for the 2009
	OpenOffice.org Conference.</p>

	<p>Hungary has a <strong>large and enthusiastic community of
	OpenOffice.org localizers and developers</strong> who have managed
	numerous OpenOffice.org related developments: extensions (OxygenOffice,
	EuroOffice), quality assurance of OpenOffice.org code, the Hungarian
	spell check library (HunSpell) and several value-added localized
	OpenOffice.org code-based products (StarOffice, EuroOffice). A consortium
	of local companies and universities won a EUR 2.1 million tender in 2008.
	The aim of this three-year project is to develop a software quality
	assurance service-package for open document format applications and
	thereby increase the level of inter-interoperability of OpenOffice.org.
	This will significantly strengthen its position on the worldwide
	corporate market.</p>

	<p>The OOoCon 2009 event in Budapest is already attracting <strong>a
	large number of potential supporters and sponsors</strong>, including the
	government and universities, as well as multinational and local vendors,
	as our preliminary negotiations with them have clearly demonstrated.</p>

	<p>All the recommended <strong>accommodation offers easy access to the
	location of the conference</strong> (InfoPark) and also to the city
	center. We will also provide a <strong>three-day ticket for all means of
	public transport in Budapest to all registered guests</strong>.</p>

	<p>To avoid any problems we will ensure a printed <strong>information
	package</strong> (city map, emergency card, conference map, schedule,
	important telephone numbers, recommended bars and restaurants, etc) and
	will send the same files by email to all our registered guests. We also
	guarantee a <strong>contact person, who will be on hand</strong> in the
	event of any problems, from co-ordination to visa issues.</p>

	<p>The organizers of OOoCon 2009 are offering a <strong>sponsorship
	program for long-term OpenOffice.org contributors</strong> - who will all
	be offered a hotel room free of charge.</p>

	<p>We offer the following entertaining facilities for our guests free of
	charge:</p>

	<ul>
	<li>
	<p><strong>Banquet in the Salon of</strong> <a href=
	"http://www.spasbudapest.com/furdo.php?idx=14"><strong>Bath
	Szechenyi</strong></a><br />
	Aperitif and wine tasting, Experience the celebrated Szechenyi
	Bath</p>
	</li>

	<li>
	<p><strong>Excursion to the historic royal city of</strong> <a href=
	"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visegr%C3%A1d"><strong>Visegrad</strong></a><br />

	Visit to the famous fortress of King Mathias, Dinner at a medieval
	<a href=
	"http://www.renvisegrad.hu/index.php?setLanguage=en">renaissance-style
	restaurant</a>, “Knights' Tournaments” - special medieval surprise
	for the guests</p>
	</li>
	</ul>

	<h2>Attachments</h2>

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

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