Hi all, The OpenRheinRuhr [0] event is a local convention around open source software in Germany. The program is a mix of talks and booth presentations. The event took place this year on the 3rd and 4th November.
Our booth team usually visits this event every year. This year has been special. On initiative of Uwe Altmann from the LibreOffice Community the booth has been shared between Apache Open Office, EGroupware and LibreOffice. (sorted in alphabetical order) The booth teams have a long tradition to meet on events, and this year is the first official collaboration between all 3 projects. For Apache OpenOffice have represented by our volunteers Mechtilde, Michaela und Michael Stehmann. LibreOffice has been represented by Regina Henschel and Uwe Altmann. EGroupware have been represented by Stefan. The booth have been visited by various people known in the german Office Community. From our dev community Matthias Seidel and I visited on Sunday. The atmosphere on the common booth has been relaxed and coined by friendship. Uwe Altman held a talk on the advantages of the ODF format on Saturday, while Stefan talked about LibreOfficeOnline in EGroupware. Because of a no show for a talk around LibreOffice, from an unknown speaker to everyone present at the time at the booth, Uwe Altmann invited us to share the replacement talk, which Michael and I gladly accepted. Michael talked about the history of OpenOffice, I said one or 2 sentence about our presence situation, while Uwe Altmann and Regina Henschel represented the LibreOffice side. In the second part of the talk we improvised a short writer workshop with Regina Henschel as main talker supported by the rest of us. Uwe Altmann finished the talk with a short compare between ODF and OOXML. The composed booth teams agreed that the cooperation and collaboration of all three teams (LibreOffice, EGroupware and Apache OpenOffice (reversed alphabetical order ;) )) were a success and that this should be continued and extended if possible. In total we all have left the event with the feeling that bonds have been strengthened. This is a rough conversion from Michael's german report [1]. The Report of Uwe Altmann on the german LibreOffice List [ 2]. Both reports are in german (of course). All the best Peter Kovacs [0] https://openrheinruhr.de/ [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9a7fb9d2b666d2d06fb684aa0cb3bb61dc53c43ae620af79f9b8e674@%3Cdev-de.openoffice.apache.org%3E [2] https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/de/discuss/msg22530.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
