Hello All, Update to the email I sent in September. Heather contacted me again today, and both OpenOffice.org and The OD Fellowship are invited to have a booth and propose speakers for this event. We spent a few minutes on the phone brainstorming, and I have a few items here that we discussed.
1. We should invite either SUN, IBM or possibly both as a joint thing to talk about Open Standards such as ODF driving compitition, and Open Source, such as OOo doing well in that competitive environment. (Bob Sutor, Simon Phipps, any suggestions?) 2. Linspire is interested in hearing proposals for technical discussions about OOo and / or ODF. Does anyone have any ideas they'd like to submit for a talk? 3. Linspire is trying to branch out to education for this conference, so a talk about OOo and ODF in education (and in the business around education) is very much requested. Perhaps Ian Lynch would be interested in speaking at DLS this year? 4. Finally, booth staffing and sponsorship. Who can make it with a sponsor, who can make it without one, and who is willing to sponsor who. Please only reply to the mailing list with responses to this part as I don't want to flood the people I've CC'd on this message. 5. A panel discussion about the recent success of ODF and where things are headed has been floated. I would love to see Gary Edwards on such a panel, in addition to whoever SUN and IBM sent. 6. Any suggestions for DLS this year? Last year went very well in my eyes, Linspire only has the venue for two days this time, so we don't have time to repeat the Regi-con, but I would love to make this a successful conference anyway. Ryan On 9/5/05, Ryan Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I spoke to Heather from Linspire the other day. > > DLS 2006 will be in April this year, instead of feb. Linspire is not > interested in doing another Regicon, but they are interested in having a > speaker or two and a panelist or two from OOo. This is in addition to a > booth possible presence. Is anybody interested? What would you want to > talk about? > > I would love to get Gary and/or Simon on the stage again if you guys are > up for it. I also think Louis would make a good panelist. > > This email is meant to start a brainstorming thread about what, if > anything, people would like to bring to DLS 2006. > > -- > _________________ > Ryan Singer -- _________________ Ryan Singer
