Hello there,
from August 11th to August 13th, 2006, the Germanophone project,
supported by the two associations „OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.“ and
„Team OpenOffice.org e.V.“, conducted the first CampOpenOffice.org in
Diez, Germany.
The idea came up already one and a half year ago on a community meeting.
Usually, we promote the program OpenOffice.org, we take part in trade
shows and exhibitions, we deliver speeches, we try to talk to
enterprises - but we do not often promote the community in such a direct
way. However, the community always needs new members and helpful hands,
and it is pretty hard for externals to get in, as structures grow and
more and more tasks arise. For „newbies“, it's not easy to know where to
start, and seeing „people behind“ personally from face to face helps a
lot when thinking about contributing to such a project.
So we decided to give twenty interested youths between 16 and 27 years
of age the possibility to look behind the scenes of the Germanophone
project and to get introduced into several working areas:
- Quality Assurance (held by Jacqueline Rahemipour and André Schnabel)
- Databases (held by Mechtilde Stehmann and Uwe Altmann)
- Marketing (held by Sigrid Kronenberger and Florian Effenberger)
(We also wanted to offer a track „Application Development“, but this one
had only one participant, so we cancelled it.)
First, Jacqueline Rahemipour gave an overview about the history, mission
and idea behind the project OpenOffice.org, as most participants knew
nearly nothing about that. In advance, we prepared some application
forms the participants had to fill in, so we knew what they knew about
us. ;-)
Afterwards, the track leaders introduced their specific area. As we did
not want to have a monologue-only weekend, participants also had the
opportunity of bringing along a real practical project! The QA track
tried to check and validate some issues, so they saw how QA works „in
real life“. The database group created a database scheme for a contact
database to be used by the project and the marketing group wrote the
press release for the upcoming version 2.0.4 and a report about the Camp
that has been posted on the Germanophone website.
To motivate the volunteers even more, Jacqueline Rahemipour created a
fantastic and real fun „OpenOffice.org Rallye“ with questions about
OpenOffice.org and the youth hostel we are in, where we finally gave
away prices like books, OpenOffice.org t-shirts and other goodies.
Some pictures of this fantastic event can be found at
http://www.amenthes.de/linker.php?path=Fotos_2006/2006-08-11_OpenOffice.org-Camp
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/floeff/sets/72157594237731175/
On behalf of the Germanophone community, I'd like to thank everyone
involved in the project, may it be the leaders of the tracks, may it be
the ones behind the idea of the Camp, and last but not least all
participants who made that event a fantastic happening we all enjoyed
and would like to repeat in the next year. I want to encourage all NL
projects to try out something like that themselves, because it is a
great way of getting in touch with interested volunteers. In fact, at
least three participants already contributed something to the project
and nearly all said the weekend was so much fun they want to get
involved in OpenOffice.org.
Florian
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## Florian Effenberger
## Marketing/Öffentlichkeitsarbeit/Presse
## OpenOffice.org - http://de.openoffice.org
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