-------- Original Message -------- From: Stefan Taxhet <Stefan [ dot ] Taxhet [ at ] sun [ dot ] com> Subject: [ooo-announce] Call for Papers: OpenOffice.org Conference 2003 To: announce [ at ] openoffice [ dot ] org, discuss [ at ] openoffice [ dot ] org What: First OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2003) When: March 20th - March 21st 2003 Where: University of Hamburg, Germany URL: http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/ Meet the community, users, and community sponsors at the first OpenOffice.org Conference. The conference will take place right after CeBIT, which ends March 19th. Hamburg is only 100 miles (160 Kilometers) from Hannover. It will attract some high-profile keynote speakers from the developer community, European politics, the open-source movement, and the main sponsor, Sun Microsystems, Inc. The conference will include some limited exhibition space. Miguel de Icaza and Bruce Perens both say that OpenOffice.org is THE most important Open Source project because people can try it without switching from Windows and if they do they'll discover that Open Source can work for them. They don't have to pay big bucks for office productivity. "I've seen the OpenOffice.org community evolve over the last two years into a place where Sun and the community really do work together towards the common goal of making office productivity available at low or no cost to everyone. Their work is driving a lot of the interest in Open Source that we're seeing now in emerging markets like India and China. It is my sincere hope that more developers will show up to work on the OpenOffice.org project so the community can really make it their own", says Danese Cooper, Sun's Open Source Diva. The conference will cover the following OpenOffice.org topics organized in two tracks: - General + General Usage and Features + Business and Government + Marketing + Standards + Open Source + The Community - Development + Software Development Kit + Porting + Localization + Filters + QA Please submit an abstract of your session to callforpapers [ at ] openoffice [ dot ] org For further details have a look at http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/cfp.html The OpenOffice.org Conference Team --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscribe [ at ] openoffice [ dot ] org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-help [ at ] openoffice [ dot ] org