Jason Faulkner wrote: > It was EXCELLENT meeting Ian, Daniel, Ryan, Jean, Christian, Rosemary > and some of the good people at Mozilla and Linspire we've been working > with -- hopefully this can become a regular thing.
Yeah! I'm so glad I went. It was quite an experience. I didn't quite realize this before, but email just doesn't hold a candle to talking to someone face to face. It was so great to meet everyone and get to know you better. I was impressed with Jason's enthusiasm and interest in expanding OOo. Jason, you did great. I hope you'll want to participate more at OOo. Ryan is so energetic, he was running around so fast he left my head spinning! Ian and Rosemary are great. Ian trained Ryan and I to be INGOT accessors, yeah! Talking to Gary Edwards was very enlightening. I think I learned more about OpenStandards and OpenDocument in those 3 days than I have in the last 3 months. And Landon's talk on DBA was a hit too. We had all these people asking about our upcomming database functionality. The new OpenBase is eagerly awaited now. You go Landon! Good job! We also made some great contacts there. Ian stablished a new academy in Venezula, which is a prime opportunity. The Venezuelan government has said that in 3 years (I think it's 3) the entire government will move to open source. We also found a deal with the Linux Professional Institute to call every school in the USA, both public and private, and try to sell them on the INGOTs. Every school that says "yes" will become a new local island of awareness about open source and open standards. I think the INGOTs, now that I understand them well, are a spectacular opportunity to spread knowledge of open source and open standards. Ian's idea is truly spectacular. The user guides from OOoAuthors were a great hit. And they presented a good opportunity to tell people about all the great stuff that's going to happen in OOo 2.0. At the end of the conference we gifted those books to Novell and Linspire, so they could see what we are working on. Both were very happy to have them. I got to meet some guys from the Mozilla team. Yeah! Those guys love their work, and they have such a good infrastructure setup to promote their work. I sat through the talk from the guy who ran the marketing campaign for Firefox. I certainly learned from that. > Oh, and for anyone who was wondering, Daniel is *not* a skinny, > squeaky math geek. Ha ha. Yeah, I'm more like a 6-foot tall, scary-looking math geek. It was great meeting you Jason. Once again, I really do hope you'll stay involved. There are confs on the East coast. We should find a way to send you to those. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
