Call for Papers and Workshops for Fosdem 2008 Developer Room for
OpenOffice.org
Fosdem 2008 (23-24 February, Brussels, Belgium) [0] is legendary for
being a focused and exciting developer and contributor conference.
This year, it will host a Developer Room (DevRoom) for OpenOffice.org
from 23-24 Feb. (the weekend). [1] The purpose of the Developer Room
is to give developers and other contributors the space and time to
present and conduct workshops on OpenOffice.org and related
technologies. We will have this room for the weekend, from morning to
evening. All interested are welcome to participate, and if you have a
new integration, extensions, add-on or functionality, here is your
chance: you are invited!
More particularly, we are looking for two sorts of proposals, with the
emphasis on workshops:
* Talks: 45 minutes plus 15 minutes questions and answers
* Workshops: 1.5-2.0 hours, hands on demonstrations, questions/
answers, etc. Workshops should show, explain, describe what's possible
with and for OpenOffice.org and how one can do the work demonstrated.
If you feel confident to explain how to implement a new filter, how to
build OpenOffice.org and fix bugs, how to develop extensions, how to
conduct QA, how to write documentation and help, or simply why it is
fun to develop for one of the biggest open source projects of the
world, send us your proposal!
Proposals should be 250-word abstracts for presentations and
workshops. Submitters should make clear what projects in
OpenOffice.org they have been working on, how developers or other
contributors can benefit at Fosdem from their presentation/workshop,
and anything else that can help in the judging.
Submitters are also invited to create wikis providing more
information. Our wiki page is at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page
, but prior to creating any new page you should confer with the
relevant project members and lead, so as to diminish informational
chaos.
** Deadline: 27 January 2008 **
* Send proposals to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We will notify you shortly after 1 Feb. if you proposal is accepted or
not. It is possible that we will have some funds available to
subsidize travel and lodging for those whose proposals have been
accepted (and are more or less local), but ask that you first look for
funding on your own. If you will be needing funding, please indicate
as much in your proposal.
--The Fosdem 2008 Committee
[0] Fosdem: http://www.fosdem.org/2008/
[1] http://www.fosdem.org/2008/schedule/devroom/openofficeorg
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