Registration officially opens today for the OpenOffice.org annual international conference 2009 (OOoCon), to be held in the beautiful and historic city of Orvieto, Umbria, Italy. Following pre-conference meetings on Nov.3rd, the main OOoCon events run from Nov 4th-6th. The Conference will include presentations not only from OpenOffice.org individual contributors, but also from the main commercial players in the OpenOffice.org / OpenDocument Format (ODF) world, including Sun Microsystems, IBM, Redflag 2000, Novell, and Microsoft.
The main conference theme this year is "OpenOffice.org and Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) in Education", with case studies, best practice, and research results. In other tracks, members of the OpenOffice.org Renaissance project will explain how they are aiming to improve the User Experience of OpenOffice.org, and compare their approach with their opposite numbers from Lotus Symphony and RedOffice. Workshops will encourage attendees to join in this activity, help in the QA process, or join the OpenOffice.org developers. There will also be a series of sessions around ODF, the ground-breaking international open standard for storing office software files. Commercial adopters of the standard will explore how ODF is living up to its promise, including presentations from Sun Microsystems (StarOffice), Microsoft (Microsoft Office), RedFlag (RedOffice), and IBM (Lotus Symphony). The draft Conference Programme, published today, provides abstracts and speaker biographies for the conference sessions. People interested in attending are urged to visit the Conference web site http://www.ooocon.org, download the draft Programme, and register to secure a place at the conference. Registering in advance helps the Conference organisers know how many people are coming, and saves congestion on the first day. Registration costs 10 Euro standard, with a 2 Euro concessionary rate. The organisers wish to record their thanks to this year's sponsors: Platinum: AICA, EurOffice, IBM, and Sun Microsystems; Gold: Oracle, Redflag 2000, and Yacme; Silver: Engineering without whose generous support OOoCon could not take place. Sponsorship opportunities are still available - please see the 'Sponsors' link on the website. The Conference Team --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@openoffice.org
