Second annual Serbian OpenOffice.org community meeting Serbia, Kragujevac, May 16, 2009
To see some photos from the event go to Serbian announcment page: http://sr.openoffice.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=667 More photos are available at Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=193009265477 The second annual Serbian OpenOffice.org community meeting, organized by Free Software Network Serbia and with a support of Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade took place on Saturday May 16 in the city of Kragujevac with a presence of more than 30 developers, translators and friends of OpenOffice.org project in Serbia. Summarizing achieved results of localization project it was emphasized that the brand new localized release 3.1 is following a path of success and possibly is the best localized office suite on the market available. The roadmap was presented for updating and translating Croatian guidebooks for OpenOffice.org released by NGO HrOpen while the effort to translate OpenOffice.org online help content will continue. Speaking at the meeting, Goran Rakic, Serbian native-lang project lead, gave encouragement to local IT system integrators for developing new solutions based on OpenOffice.org and called them to help community expand OpenOffice.org market share in Serbia. Everybody agreed that more solutions based on software libre are needed both to fulfill demands of existing customers and to create new export oriented value for Serbian IT industry which can not be based exclusively on reselling existing closed solutions. The results of User Satisfaction Program were analyzed. Igor Nestorovic, Serbian native-lang project co-lead, put forward an hypothesis about strong prejudice among the Serbian business holders that only small and troubled companies are using free and open source solutions while successful ones are using proprietary software. This lead to unwillingly cooperation from existing users during User Survey and Case Studies Building as they would like to hide what software they are using. As it was announced earlier, marketing project was separated from localization project and Maja Markovic was appointed as marketing project lead. Marketing project hopes to reunite past contributors and those interested in project success but with no time available to help localization and build upon their experience, connections in IT industry and fresh new ideas for promoting OpenOffice.org in Serbia. Once more having a great time together, Serbian OpenOffice.org community made a call to everybody interested to join the community, contribute to the OpenOffice.org project and help achieve even greater development of this lively software libre project. Goran Rakic Serbian OpenOffice.org native-lang project lead --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org
