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OOoCon 2007

2007-08-09T13:39:12Z

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[[Category:OOoCon]]
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= OOoCon 2007 Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) =

== Dates ==

18th to 21st of September 2007.

(the 18th of September will be the "Community Day")

== Team Lead ==

Person that is leading the conference.

* Jesús Corrius (Catalan Native Lang Project Leader / L10N), jesus at softcatala.org
* Jordi Mas, Anna Grau (sponsors and local organisation)

== Team Members ==

Members should be willing and able to commit at least 3 hours per day to planning the conference during the last two weeks before OOoCon 2007.

* Jesús Corrius, jesus at softcatala.org
* Ignasi Labastida, University of Barcelona
* Jordi Mas, jmas at softcatala.org
* Ismael Fanlo, ifanlo at superalumnos.net
* Josep Gallart, josepgallart gmail.com
* Tania De la Paz
* Toni Hermoso, tonirher at softcatala.org
* David Poblador, david at nirvanis.org
* Alberto Barrionuevo, abarrio at EstandaresAbiertos.org (for ODF promotion stuff -active in FFII, ODF Alliance and OpenDocument Fellowship-)
* Quim Perez i Noguer, noguer at gmail.com
* Quim Perelló i Miro, quim at gracianet.cat
* Mac Kull, seclib at netscape.net (MT English speaker willing to help proof English language text prior to distribution or posting, experienced international conference coordinator, live in Cadiz)
* Miguel Galán, komputerman at gmail.com (UB student, OO.org user from 1.1, mid-level catalan and english speaker, interested on Bibliographic)
* José G. Alvarado, jsgrd30 at aol.com
* Jordi Vilanova, jordi.vilanova at fksl.com (FLOSS consultant to SMBs in Barcelona area - trilingual Catalan, Spanish and English to native standards. Regular user, fully OOo literate)

(Please, add your e-mail address also. We need it to contact you)

Softcatalà (about 10 people, more if needed), Core team of the CA project (about 5 people), staff of the University of Barcelona.

== Organization ==

We now have an [[OOoCon_2007_Organization|organization wiki page]] to discuss issues related to the organization.

== Local events taking place in parallel (or right before/after) ==

* 11th of September is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Catalonia National Day of Catalonia]
* 19th - 22nd September: Drupalcon Barcelona 2007

== Names of local OpenOffice.org developers ==

Names of potentials developers for doing panels at the conference in the developer's sessions.

* [http://www.opscons.com/ OPS Consulting]
* Jesús Corrius, Softcatalà (Catalan L10N)
* Iñaki Larrañaga (Basque L10N)
* Ruben Da Silva (Galician L10N)

== Names of local OpenOffice.org companies and institutions ==

Names of companies and institutions that are potential sponsors or have potential success stories but have not been contacted yet.

* [http://www.t-systems.es T-Systems]
* [http://www.novell.com Novell Barcelona]
* [http://www.uoc.es Universitat Oberta de Catalunya]
* [http://www.rinho.com Rinho Sistemas]
* [http://www.opentia.com/ OPENTIA]
* [http://www.EstandaresAbiertos.org EstándaresAbiertos.org] (open standards promotion project).
* [http://www.bcn.es Ajuntament de Barcelona]

== Sponsors that have shown interest ==

This is a list of sponsors that have been contacted and have shown an interest in helping the event.

* [http://www.mityc.es/en-US/ Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade]. Contact Roberto Santos <roberto.santos at hispalinux.es>
* [http://www.cenatic.es CENATIC Public Foundation for promoting open technology in Spain]. Contact Alberto Abella <alberto.abella at cenatic.es>
* [http://www.gencat.cat Generalitat de Catalunya]

== Video coverage ==
[http://www.kiberpipa.org Kiberpipa media team] is again offering to cover the conference [http://ooocon.kiberpipa.org/articles/media.html as it did in 2005 and 2006]. This means putting all videos of presentations on the web promptly, doing video interviews, providing live streams, gallery, planet, etc. Whole workflow done with free software exclusively.

== Proposals for talks or keynotes ==

Proposals for talks, keynotes and success stories.

== Minutes from the meetings ==

Minutes from the different meetings that have taken place.

* [[OOoCon_2007_Minutes_140307|14th March at University of Barcelona]]

The next meeting is scheduled for the next 22nd March, 19.30 h at The Shamrock (Barcelona, Carrer Tallers, 72)

== How can you help ==

You can help in many different ways. Help us identifying:

* People in the Barcelona area that can help as volunteers on the proposed dates. Please, write your name in the ''Team Members'' section of this page with your e-mail address. You can also include a short description of your skills and the kind of help that you could provide.

* Large local OpenOffice.org deployments (for user keynotes and success stories) or potential keynotes relevant to OpenOffice.org. Please, add them to ''Proposals for talks or keynotes'' section of this page.

* Names of local OpenOffice.org developers (for developer sessions). If you are an individual, organization or company doing a development based on Openoffice.org add yourself to the ''Names of local OpenOffice.org developers'' section of this page.

* Names of local OpenOffice.org companies or institutions (potential sponsors) in Spain. Are you a company or institution and you want to help sponsoring the conference Please, subscribe to the ooocon2007_discuss list (see the contact section for details) and explain what your company or institution does and how it can contribute to the conference.

Please try to avoid contacting the organisers directly and try to share your projects and ideas with everyone else using the mailing list.

If you are an institution or a company please consider sponsoring the effort.

== Cheap rooms ==

If you are interested in a cheap room in Barcelona, please add yourself to the list.

* Jesús Corrius i Llavina, jesus at softcatala.org (2 individual rooms, b&b)
* Charles-H. Schulz & Melissa charles-h.schulz@arsaperta.com (1 twin room or two single rooms b&b)
* Eric Bachard, ericb@openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b)
* Jerome Dumonteil jerome.dumonteil@arsaperta.com (1 individual room, b&b)
* Mahay Alam Khan (mak); mahayalamkhan at gmail.com (1 '''twin''' room, b&b)
* Shaun McDonald, smsm1@openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Italo Vignoli, italo at italovignoli.com (1 individual room, b&b)
* <s>Stefan Weigel, sweigel at openoffice.org (1 b&b, arrival 18th, departure 23rd, anybody willing to share a twin?)</s>
* Alexandro Colorado (jza), jza at openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Andrew Whittaker, amwhitta at gmail.com (2 individual rooms, b&b)
* Andrea Pescetti, pescetti at openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Andras Timar, timar at openoffice.org and Laszlo Nemeth (1 '''twin''' room, b&b)
* Sophie Gautier, sgauti at openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b)
* Aiet Kolkhi, aietkolkhi at openoffice.org (1 twin room or two single rooms b&b)
* Shane Mathews, shane.m.mathews at gmail.com (1 individual room, b&b)
* Paolo Mantovani, paolomantovani at openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Michel Loiseleur, mloiseleur at openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b)
* <s>Andreas Mantke, andreasma at openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b, arrival 18th, departure 22rd)</s>
* Alan de Leeuw and Lara Russell, alan at ccnsweb.com (1 twin room b&b, arrival 17th, departure 24th), Matt Huet joining us on 19th.
* Davide Dozza and Patricija Koren davide at flossconsulting.it (1 individual room b&b, from 17th to 21th - 4 nights and 1 twin room b&b from 21th to 25th - 4 nights )
* Robert Ludvik, bobe at openoffice.org (1 individual b&b, from 17th to 21th - 4 nights)
* Florian Reuter, flr at openoffice.org (12 people from Novell, 6 twin rooms possible (2 twin rooms from 18th-23rd, 4 twin rooms from 18th-22nd)

== Contact ==

Please try to avoid contacting the organisers directly and try to share your projects and ideas with everyone else using the mailing list. You can contact the organisation at the ooocon2007_discuss@marketing.openoffice.org by sending an empty message to ooocon2007_discuss-subscribe@marketing.openoffice.org.

== Call for papers ==

There is a page with all the information for the [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoCon_Call_For_Papers call for papers] for the Conference. The deadline for sending proposals is 1 June 2007.

== Conference news ==

* [http://ooocon2007.blogspot.com/index.html Weblog in English about the Conference]
* [http://barcelona-ooo.blogspot.com/ Weblog from the Spanish community about the Conference]

== Special requests ==

Please use [[OOoCon2007_Specials|this page]] for special requests for extra meeting rooms, special facilities, requests for Projects Day, etc.

OOoCon 2007

2007-08-09T13:20:13Z

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{{Marketing}}

[[Category:OOoCon]]
[[:Category:OOoCon]]

= OOoCon 2007 Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) =

== Dates ==

18th to 21st of September 2007.

(the 18th of September will be the "Community Day")

== Team Lead ==

Person that is leading the conference.

* Jesús Corrius (Catalan Native Lang Project Leader / L10N), jesus at softcatala.org
* Jordi Mas, Anna Grau (sponsors and local organisation)

== Team Members ==

Members should be willing and able to commit at least 3 hours per day to planning the conference during the last two weeks before OOoCon 2007.

* Jesús Corrius, jesus at softcatala.org
* Ignasi Labastida, University of Barcelona
* Jordi Mas, jmas at softcatala.org
* Ismael Fanlo, ifanlo at superalumnos.net
* Josep Gallart, josepgallart gmail.com
* Tania De la Paz
* Toni Hermoso, tonirher at softcatala.org
* David Poblador, david at nirvanis.org
* Alberto Barrionuevo, abarrio at EstandaresAbiertos.org (for ODF promotion stuff -active in FFII, ODF Alliance and OpenDocument Fellowship-)
* Quim Perez i Noguer, noguer at gmail.com
* Quim Perelló i Miro, quim at gracianet.cat
* Mac Kull, seclib at netscape.net (MT English speaker willing to help proof English language text prior to distribution or posting, experienced international conference coordinator, live in Cadiz)
* Miguel Galán, komputerman at gmail.com (UB student, OO.org user from 1.1, mid-level catalan and english speaker, interested on Bibliographic)
* José G. Alvarado, jsgrd30 at aol.com
* Jordi Vilanova, jordi.vilanova at fksl.com (FLOSS consultant to SMBs in Barcelona area - trilingual Catalan, Spanish and English to native standards. Regular user, fully OOo literate)

(Please, add your e-mail address also. We need it to contact you)

Softcatalà (about 10 people, more if needed), Core team of the CA project (about 5 people), staff of the University of Barcelona.

== Organization ==

We now have an [[OOoCon_2007_Organization|organization wiki page]] to discuss issues related to the organization.

== Local events taking place in parallel (or right before/after) ==

* 11th of September is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Catalonia National Day of Catalonia]
* 19th - 22nd September: Drupalcon Barcelona 2007

== Names of local OpenOffice.org developers ==

Names of potentials developers for doing panels at the conference in the developer's sessions.

* [http://www.opscons.com/ OPS Consulting]
* Jesús Corrius, Softcatalà (Catalan L10N)
* Iñaki Larrañaga (Basque L10N)
* Ruben Da Silva (Galician L10N)

== Names of local OpenOffice.org companies and institutions ==

Names of companies and institutions that are potential sponsors or have potential success stories but have not been contacted yet.

* [http://www.t-systems.es T-Systems]
* [http://www.novell.com Novell Barcelona]
* [http://www.uoc.es Universitat Oberta de Catalunya]
* [http://www.rinho.com Rinho Sistemas]
* [http://www.opentia.com/ OPENTIA]
* [http://www.EstandaresAbiertos.org EstándaresAbiertos.org] (open standards promotion project).
* [http://www.bcn.es Ajuntament de Barcelona]

== Sponsors that have shown interest ==

This is a list of sponsors that have been contacted and have shown an interest in helping the event.

* [http://www.mityc.es/en-US/ Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade]. Contact Roberto Santos <roberto.santos at hispalinux.es>
* [http://www.cenatic.es CENATIC Public Foundation for promoting open technology in Spain]. Contact Alberto Abella <alberto.abella at cenatic.es>
* [http://www.gencat.cat Generalitat de Catalunya]

== Video coverage ==
[http://www.kiberpipa.org Kiberpipa media team] is again offering to cover the conference [http://ooocon.kiberpipa.org/articles/media.html as it did in 2005 and 2006]. This means putting all videos of presentations on the web promptly, doing video interviews, providing live streams, gallery, planet, etc. Whole workflow done with free software exclusively.

== Proposals for talks or keynotes ==

Proposals for talks, keynotes and success stories.

== Minutes from the meetings ==

Minutes from the different meetings that have taken place.

* [[OOoCon_2007_Minutes_140307|14th March at University of Barcelona]]

The next meeting is scheduled for the next 22nd March, 19.30 h at The Shamrock (Barcelona, Carrer Tallers, 72)

== How can you help ==

You can help in many different ways. Help us identifying:

* People in the Barcelona area that can help as volunteers on the proposed dates. Please, write your name in the ''Team Members'' section of this page with your e-mail address. You can also include a short description of your skills and the kind of help that you could provide.

* Large local OpenOffice.org deployments (for user keynotes and success stories) or potential keynotes relevant to OpenOffice.org. Please, add them to ''Proposals for talks or keynotes'' section of this page.

* Names of local OpenOffice.org developers (for developer sessions). If you are an individual, organization or company doing a development based on Openoffice.org add yourself to the ''Names of local OpenOffice.org developers'' section of this page.

* Names of local OpenOffice.org companies or institutions (potential sponsors) in Spain. Are you a company or institution and you want to help sponsoring the conference Please, subscribe to the ooocon2007_discuss list (see the contact section for details) and explain what your company or institution does and how it can contribute to the conference.

Please try to avoid contacting the organisers directly and try to share your projects and ideas with everyone else using the mailing list.

If you are an institution or a company please consider sponsoring the effort.

== Cheap rooms ==

If you are interested in a cheap room in Barcelona, please add yourself to the list.

* Jesús Corrius i Llavina, jesus at softcatala.org (2 individual rooms, b&b)
* Charles-H. Schulz & Melissa charles-h.schulz@arsaperta.com (1 twin room or two single rooms b&b)
* Eric Bachard, ericb@openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b)
* Jerome Dumonteil jerome.dumonteil@arsaperta.com (1 individual room, b&b)
* Mahay Alam Khan (mak); mahayalamkhan at gmail.com (1 '''twin''' room, b&b)
* Shaun McDonald, smsm1@openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Italo Vignoli, italo at italovignoli.com (1 individual room, b&b)
* <s>Stefan Weigel, sweigel at openoffice.org (1 b&b, arrival 18th, departure 23rd, anybody willing to share a twin?)</s>
* Alexandro Colorado (jza), jza at openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Andrew Whittaker, amwhitta at gmail.com (2 individual rooms, b&b)
* Andrea Pescetti, pescetti at openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Andras Timar, timar at openoffice.org and Laszlo Nemeth (1 '''twin''' room, b&b)
* Sophie Gautier, sgauti at openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b)
* Aiet Kolkhi, aietkolkhi at openoffice.org (1 twin room or two single rooms b&b)
* Shane Mathews, shane.m.mathews at gmail.com (1 individual room, b&b)
* Paolo Mantovani, paolomantovani at openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Michel Loiseleur, mloiseleur at openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b)
* <s>Andreas Mantke, andreasma at openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b, arrival 18th, departure 22rd)</s>
* Alan de Leeuw and Lara Russell, alan at ccnsweb.com (1 twin room b&b, arrival 17th, departure 24th)
* Davide Dozza and Patricija Koren davide at flossconsulting.it (1 individual room b&b, from 17th to 21th - 4 nights and 1 twin room b&b from 21th to 25th - 4 nights )
* Robert Ludvik, bobe at openoffice.org (1 individual b&b, from 17th to 21th - 4 nights)
* Florian Reuter, flr at openoffice.org (12 people from Novell, 6 twin rooms possible (2 twin rooms from 18th-23rd, 4 twin rooms from 18th-22nd)

== Contact ==

Please try to avoid contacting the organisers directly and try to share your projects and ideas with everyone else using the mailing list. You can contact the organisation at the ooocon2007_discuss@marketing.openoffice.org by sending an empty message to ooocon2007_discuss-subscribe@marketing.openoffice.org.

== Call for papers ==

There is a page with all the information for the [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoCon_Call_For_Papers call for papers] for the Conference. The deadline for sending proposals is 1 June 2007.

== Conference news ==

* [http://ooocon2007.blogspot.com/index.html Weblog in English about the Conference]
* [http://barcelona-ooo.blogspot.com/ Weblog from the Spanish community about the Conference]

== Special requests ==

Please use [[OOoCon2007_Specials|this page]] for special requests for extra meeting rooms, special facilities, requests for Projects Day, etc.

OOoCon 2007

2007-07-16T18:39:51Z

Tigerfire:

{{Marketing}}

[[Category:OOoCon]]
[[:Category:OOoCon]]

= OOoCon 2007 Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) =

== Dates ==

18th to 21st of September 2007.

(the 18th of September will be the "Community Day")

== Team Lead ==

Person that is leading the conference.

* Jesús Corrius (Catalan Native Lang Project Leader / L10N), jesus at softcatala.org
* Jordi Mas, Anna Grau (sponsors and local organisation)

== Team Members ==

Members should be willing and able to commit at least 3 hours per day to planning the conference during the last two weeks before OOoCon 2007.

* Jesús Corrius, jesus at softcatala.org
* Ignasi Labastida, University of Barcelona
* Jordi Mas, jmas at softcatala.org
* Ismael Fanlo, ifanlo at superalumnos.net
* Josep Gallart, josepgallart gmail.com
* Tania De la Paz
* Toni Hermoso, tonirher at softcatala.org
* David Poblador, david at nirvanis.org
* Alberto Barrionuevo, abarrio at EstandaresAbiertos.org (for ODF promotion stuff -active in FFII, ODF Alliance and OpenDocument Fellowship-)
* Quim Perez i Noguer, noguer at gmail.com
* Quim Perelló i Miro, quim at gracianet.cat
* Mac Kull, seclib at netscape.net (MT English speaker willing to help proof English language text prior to distribution or posting, experienced international conference coordinator, live in Cadiz)
* Miguel Galán, komputerman at gmail.com (UB student, OO.org user from 1.1, mid-level catalan and english speaker, interested on Bibliographic)
* José G. Alvarado, jsgrd30 at aol.com
* Jordi Vilanova, jordi.vilanova at fksl.com (FLOSS consultant to SMBs in Barcelona area - trilingual Catalan, Spanish and English to native standards. Regular user, fully OOo literate)

(Please, add your e-mail address also. We need it to contact you)

Softcatalà (about 10 people, more if needed), Core team of the CA project (about 5 people), staff of the University of Barcelona.

== Organization ==

We now have an [[OOoCon_2007_Organization|organization wiki page]] to discuss issues related to the organization.

== Local events taking place in parallel (or right before/after) ==

* 11th of September is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Catalonia National Day of Catalonia]
* 19th - 22nd September: Drupalcon Barcelona 2007

== Names of local OpenOffice.org developers ==

Names of potentials developers for doing panels at the conference in the developer's sessions.

* [http://www.opscons.com/ OPS Consulting]
* Jesús Corrius, Softcatalà (Catalan L10N)
* Iñaki Larrañaga (Basque L10N)
* Ruben Da Silva (Galician L10N)

== Names of local OpenOffice.org companies and institutions ==

Names of companies and institutions that are potential sponsors or have potential success stories but have not been contacted yet.

* [http://www.t-systems.es T-Systems]
* [http://www.novell.com Novell Barcelona]
* [http://www.uoc.es Universitat Oberta de Catalunya]
* [http://www.rinho.com Rinho Sistemas]
* [http://www.opentia.com/ OPENTIA]
* [http://www.EstandaresAbiertos.org EstándaresAbiertos.org] (open standards promotion project).
* [http://www.bcn.es Ajuntament de Barcelona]

== Sponsors that have shown interest ==

This is a list of sponsors that have been contacted and have shown an interest in helping the event.

* [http://www.mityc.es/en-US/ Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade]. Contact Roberto Santos <roberto.santos at hispalinux.es>
* [http://www.cenatic.es CENATIC Public Foundation for promoting open technology in Spain]. Contact Alberto Abella <alberto.abella at cenatic.es>
* [http://www.gencat.cat Generalitat de Catalunya]

== Video coverage ==
[http://www.kiberpipa.org Kiberpipa media team] is again offering to cover the conference [http://ooocon.kiberpipa.org/articles/media.html as it did in 2005 and 2006]. This means putting all videos of presentations on the web promptly, doing video interviews, providing live streams, gallery, planet, etc. Whole workflow done with free software exclusively.

== Proposals for talks or keynotes ==

Proposals for talks, keynotes and success stories.

== Minutes from the meetings ==

Minutes from the different meetings that have taken place.

* [[OOoCon_2007_Minutes_140307|14th March at University of Barcelona]]

The next meeting is scheduled for the next 22nd March, 19.30 h at The Shamrock (Barcelona, Carrer Tallers, 72)

== How can you help ==

You can help in many different ways. Help us identifying:

* People in the Barcelona area that can help as volunteers on the proposed dates. Please, write your name in the ''Team Members'' section of this page with your e-mail address. You can also include a short description of your skills and the kind of help that you could provide.

* Large local OpenOffice.org deployments (for user keynotes and success stories) or potential keynotes relevant to OpenOffice.org. Please, add them to ''Proposals for talks or keynotes'' section of this page.

* Names of local OpenOffice.org developers (for developer sessions). If you are an individual, organization or company doing a development based on Openoffice.org add yourself to the ''Names of local OpenOffice.org developers'' section of this page.

* Names of local OpenOffice.org companies or institutions (potential sponsors) in Spain. Are you a company or institution and you want to help sponsoring the conference Please, subscribe to the ooocon2007_discuss list (see the contact section for details) and explain what your company or institution does and how it can contribute to the conference.

Please try to avoid contacting the organisers directly and try to share your projects and ideas with everyone else using the mailing list.

If you are an institution or a company please consider sponsoring the effort.

== Cheap rooms ==

If you are interested in a cheap room in Barcelona, please add yourself to the list.

* Jesús Corrius i Llavina, jesus at softcatala.org (2 individual rooms, b&b)
* Charles-H. Schulz & Melissa charles-h.schulz@arsaperta.com (1 twin room or two single rooms b&b)
* Eric Bachard, ericb@openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b)
* Jerome Dumonteil jerome.dumonteil@arsaperta.com (1 individual room, b&b)
* Mahay Alam Khan (mak); mahayalamkhan at gmail.com (1 '''twin''' room, b&b)
* Shaun McDonald, smsm1@openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Italo Vignoli, italo at italovignoli.com (1 individual room, b&b)
* <s>Stefan Weigel, sweigel at openoffice.org (1 b&b, arrival 18th, departure 23rd, anybody willing to share a twin?)</s>
* Alexandro Colorado (jza), jza at openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Andrew Whittaker, amwhitta at gmail.com (2 individual rooms, b&b)
* Andrea Pescetti, pescetti at openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Andras Timar, timar at openoffice.org and Laszlo Nemeth (1 '''twin''' room, b&b)
* Sophie Gautier, sgauti at openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b)
* Aiet Kolkhi, aietkolkhi at openoffice.org (1 twin room or two single rooms b&b)
* Shane Mathews, shane.m.mathews at gmail.com (1 individual room, b&b)
* Paolo Mantovani, paolomantovani at openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Michel Loiseleur, mloiseleur at openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b)
* Andreas Mantke, andreasma at openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b, arrival 18th, departure 22rd)
* Alan de Leeuw and Lara Russell, alan at ccnsweb.com (1 twin room b&b, arrival 18, departure 23rd)

== Contact ==

Please try to avoid contacting the organisers directly and try to share your projects and ideas with everyone else using the mailing list. You can contact the organisation at the ooocon2007_discuss@marketing.openoffice.org by sending an empty message to ooocon2007_discuss-subscribe@marketing.openoffice.org.

== Call for papers ==

There is a page with all the information for the [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoCon_Call_For_Papers call for papers] for the Conference. The deadline for sending proposals is 1 June 2007.

== Conference news ==

* [http://ooocon2007.blogspot.com/index.html Weblog in English about the Conference]
* [http://barcelona-ooo.blogspot.com/ Weblog from the Spanish community about the Conference]

OOoCon 2007

2007-07-16T18:37:44Z

Tigerfire:

{{Marketing}}

[[Category:OOoCon]]
[[:Category:OOoCon]]

= OOoCon 2007 Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) =

== Dates ==

18th to 21st of September 2007.

(the 18th of September will be the "Community Day")

== Team Lead ==

Person that is leading the conference.

* Jesús Corrius (Catalan Native Lang Project Leader / L10N), jesus at softcatala.org
* Jordi Mas, Anna Grau (sponsors and local organisation)

== Team Members ==

Members should be willing and able to commit at least 3 hours per day to planning the conference during the last two weeks before OOoCon 2007.

* Jesús Corrius, jesus at softcatala.org
* Ignasi Labastida, University of Barcelona
* Jordi Mas, jmas at softcatala.org
* Ismael Fanlo, ifanlo at superalumnos.net
* Josep Gallart, josepgallart gmail.com
* Tania De la Paz
* Toni Hermoso, tonirher at softcatala.org
* David Poblador, david at nirvanis.org
* Alberto Barrionuevo, abarrio at EstandaresAbiertos.org (for ODF promotion stuff -active in FFII, ODF Alliance and OpenDocument Fellowship-)
* Quim Perez i Noguer, noguer at gmail.com
* Quim Perelló i Miro, quim at gracianet.cat
* Mac Kull, seclib at netscape.net (MT English speaker willing to help proof English language text prior to distribution or posting, experienced international conference coordinator, live in Cadiz)
* Miguel Galán, komputerman at gmail.com (UB student, OO.org user from 1.1, mid-level catalan and english speaker, interested on Bibliographic)
* José G. Alvarado, jsgrd30 at aol.com
* Jordi Vilanova, jordi.vilanova at fksl.com (FLOSS consultant to SMBs in Barcelona area - trilingual Catalan, Spanish and English to native standards. Regular user, fully OOo literate)

(Please, add your e-mail address also. We need it to contact you)

Softcatalà (about 10 people, more if needed), Core team of the CA project (about 5 people), staff of the University of Barcelona.

== Organization ==

We now have an [[OOoCon_2007_Organization|organization wiki page]] to discuss issues related to the organization.

== Local events taking place in parallel (or right before/after) ==

* 11th of September is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Catalonia National Day of Catalonia]
* 19th - 22nd September: Drupalcon Barcelona 2007

== Names of local OpenOffice.org developers ==

Names of potentials developers for doing panels at the conference in the developer's sessions.

* [http://www.opscons.com/ OPS Consulting]
* Jesús Corrius, Softcatalà (Catalan L10N)
* Iñaki Larrañaga (Basque L10N)
* Ruben Da Silva (Galician L10N)

== Names of local OpenOffice.org companies and institutions ==

Names of companies and institutions that are potential sponsors or have potential success stories but have not been contacted yet.

* [http://www.t-systems.es T-Systems]
* [http://www.novell.com Novell Barcelona]
* [http://www.uoc.es Universitat Oberta de Catalunya]
* [http://www.rinho.com Rinho Sistemas]
* [http://www.opentia.com/ OPENTIA]
* [http://www.EstandaresAbiertos.org EstándaresAbiertos.org] (open standards promotion project).
* [http://www.bcn.es Ajuntament de Barcelona]

== Sponsors that have shown interest ==

This is a list of sponsors that have been contacted and have shown an interest in helping the event.

* [http://www.mityc.es/en-US/ Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade]. Contact Roberto Santos <roberto.santos at hispalinux.es>
* [http://www.cenatic.es CENATIC Public Foundation for promoting open technology in Spain]. Contact Alberto Abella <alberto.abella at cenatic.es>
* [http://www.gencat.cat Generalitat de Catalunya]

== Video coverage ==
[http://www.kiberpipa.org Kiberpipa media team] is again offering to cover the conference [http://ooocon.kiberpipa.org/articles/media.html as it did in 2005 and 2006]. This means putting all videos of presentations on the web promptly, doing video interviews, providing live streams, gallery, planet, etc. Whole workflow done with free software exclusively.

== Proposals for talks or keynotes ==

Proposals for talks, keynotes and success stories.

== Minutes from the meetings ==

Minutes from the different meetings that have taken place.

* [[OOoCon_2007_Minutes_140307|14th March at University of Barcelona]]

The next meeting is scheduled for the next 22nd March, 19.30 h at The Shamrock (Barcelona, Carrer Tallers, 72)

== How can you help ==

You can help in many different ways. Help us identifying:

* People in the Barcelona area that can help as volunteers on the proposed dates. Please, write your name in the ''Team Members'' section of this page with your e-mail address. You can also include a short description of your skills and the kind of help that you could provide.

* Large local OpenOffice.org deployments (for user keynotes and success stories) or potential keynotes relevant to OpenOffice.org. Please, add them to ''Proposals for talks or keynotes'' section of this page.

* Names of local OpenOffice.org developers (for developer sessions). If you are an individual, organization or company doing a development based on Openoffice.org add yourself to the ''Names of local OpenOffice.org developers'' section of this page.

* Names of local OpenOffice.org companies or institutions (potential sponsors) in Spain. Are you a company or institution and you want to help sponsoring the conference Please, subscribe to the ooocon2007_discuss list (see the contact section for details) and explain what your company or institution does and how it can contribute to the conference.

Please try to avoid contacting the organisers directly and try to share your projects and ideas with everyone else using the mailing list.

If you are an institution or a company please consider sponsoring the effort.

== Cheap rooms ==

If you are interested in a cheap room in Barcelona, please add yourself to the list.

* Jesús Corrius i Llavina, jesus at softcatala.org (2 individual rooms, b&b)
* Charles-H. Schulz & Melissa charles-h.schulz@arsaperta.com (1 twin room or two single rooms b&b)
* Eric Bachard, ericb@openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b)
* Jerome Dumonteil jerome.dumonteil@arsaperta.com (1 individual room, b&b)
* Mahay Alam Khan (mak); mahayalamkhan at gmail.com (1 '''twin''' room, b&b)
* Shaun McDonald, smsm1@openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Italo Vignoli, italo at italovignoli.com (1 individual room, b&b)
* <s>Stefan Weigel, sweigel at openoffice.org (1 b&b, arrival 18th, departure 23rd, anybody willing to share a twin?)</s>
* Alexandro Colorado (jza), jza at openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Andrew Whittaker, amwhitta at gmail.com (2 individual rooms, b&b)
* Andrea Pescetti, pescetti at openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Andras Timar, timar at openoffice.org and Laszlo Nemeth (1 '''twin''' room, b&b)
* Sophie Gautier, sgauti at openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b)
* Aiet Kolkhi, aietkolkhi at openoffice.org (1 twin room or two single rooms b&b)
* Shane Mathews, shane.m.mathews at gmail.com (1 individual room, b&b)
* Paolo Mantovani, paolomantovani at openoffice.org (1 individual room, b&b)
* Michel Loiseleur, mloiseleur at openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b)
* Andreas Mantke, andreasma at openoffice.org (1 individual room b&b, arrival 18th, departure 22rd)
* Alan de Leeuw and Lara Russell, alan at ccnsweb.com (1 twin room b&b, arrival 18, departure 23rd

== Contact ==

Please try to avoid contacting the organisers directly and try to share your projects and ideas with everyone else using the mailing list. You can contact the organisation at the ooocon2007_discuss@marketing.openoffice.org by sending an empty message to ooocon2007_discuss-subscribe@marketing.openoffice.org.

== Call for papers ==

There is a page with all the information for the [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoCon_Call_For_Papers call for papers] for the Conference. The deadline for sending proposals is 1 June 2007.

== Conference news ==

* [http://ooocon2007.blogspot.com/index.html Weblog in English about the Conference]
* [http://barcelona-ooo.blogspot.com/ Weblog from the Spanish community about the Conference]

Documentation/Dashboard/DocOOo Structure

2007-05-04T17:06:11Z

Tigerfire:

==Organize By the Most Transparent Way of Approaching a Program==

It is tempting to organize the same way Microsoft Office does because people are very familiar with Microsoft Office. The advantage is people will understand and use features more quickly if they are already familiar with concept and location. The disadvantage is there may be a completely new way to doing something which is far more efficient and intuitive then the way Microsoft Office handles a feature.

All of your various ways of learning (multimedia, etc.) can be incorporated into the following wiki structure.

===Collaborative Wikis===

*Wikis are great for collaborative development. Perhaps restrict access somewhat in order to develop good quality information? Or leave open to everyone, but do not allow changes to become permanent until they've been approved by someone who is able to determine if the information improves the wiki or not. Using the wiki as primary source for all information which can be downloaded locally and even printed as a manual is a good idea.

*Perhaps save OpenOffice.org wiki by version. Primary versions only. Updates can be incorporated as updates to the primary version. When a new primary version comes out users should be recommended to upgrade and the previous wiki should be closed. This will encourage users and developers to put their efforts into maintaining and updating information in the current wiki while still leaving the previous wiki available. Previous wikis can be maintained as an historical record.

===Structured Learning===

Most users approach a program by looking at what they can see first. If they can make sense of what they see, they will gradually learn more advanced concepts from this starting point.

So the best way to teach a program is to start with what the user sees and explain it in every way possible (text, spoken, multimedia, etc.). If you want to reinforce concepts even more, then include exercises so the user gets hands-on experience.

Do a review of each concept covered as a way of adding repetition - a summary of the material.

After you've covered what a learner sees, then begin to take them into what they don't see (the menu items and what they mean and do).

This is a thorough approach for non-emergency users and will result in a thorough understanding of OpenOffice. As a training mechanism for a company or educational institution, organizing information this way would be ideal. In addition because the information is organized in line with actual program components, updating information and placing it correctly will become much easier.

Your other common type of user will be the emergency user who just has to get something done right away and needs to know how to do it. To my mind, this information can be incorporated into the wiki structure discussed above and made searchable.

===Outline of Wiki Concept for OpenOffice===

'''OpenOffice'''

Base/Calc/Draw/Impress/Math/Writer

*'''Users'''

**First deal with what a user sees when they first start the program
***Layout
***Default Toolbars

**Then deal with every option in detail
***Menu Bar

*'''Developers'''

**List the requirements to work on software development.
**Perhaps a "wizard" to assess background and help determine where a person's skills may be most useful.
**Provide in depth resources and tutorials and contacts for those who want to train themselves to help develop the software. The strength of open source development is the community. Provide tools and know-how to the community and you rapidly increase the pace of your development cycle. I would suggest this is probably one of the most important if not THE most important aspect of open source development. Make it easy for people to learn how to help. Provide tutorials on every aspect of development and watch your development cycle soar.
**Procedure to develop software. People to contact to get involved – depends on results of "wizard"?
**Suggestions for development of software
**Projects currently under development – Lists of people who are currently working on specific projects. Contact information for project leader.
**Completed Projects – Recorded changes by date and how they will change the wiki help file. These should be linked directly into the wiki for someone to update easily and quickly.

==Adding Value to OpenOffice.org==

There are other people who are working on projects which will add value to OpenOffice. Clipart and templates are two of these areas. I would suggest perhaps someone be asked to collect all of these together onto a page of links. Put a link in OpenOffice that connects to these pages, so a user can rapidly find new resources instead of hunting for them on the OpenOffice.org website. This will have the added utility of simplifying the website as well. Maybe put a template link and a clipart link under the “Help” Menu?

As a user, one of the first things I looked for was templates and clipart. It took some digging to find the following:

*http://openclipart.org/media/downloads
*http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates
*http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm

Unfortunately the clipart is not easy to get at as the low quality images are png thumbnails and the good quality images are svg which do not automatically open up in OpenOffice. It would actually be a very nice feature to add svg support to OpenOffice with basic editing ability such as resize/rotate/placement, etc. I have no idea how hard this would be. I believe computer art will tend more and more towards vector graphics as time goes on however, because of resize flexibility, quality of image, and better storage. Also computers will be able to handle the calculations involved with greater ease as time goes on.

I'm helping a lot of people with OpenOffice right now. I've set up several businesses with it and I also install it by default for everyone who is not interested in buying Microsoft Office. There are a couple of things which I think could be changed to give more visibility to OpenOffice.

Automatically delete installation files from desktop after installation

Place folder with shortcuts in it on desktop as well as in Program Folder Menu. This will make OpenOffice far more visible and easier to access for new users. If they want to delete the folder containing the shortcuts from their desktop they can. In the meantime it makes OpenOffice.org far more visible.

Question: Firefox is making money for Mozilla by starting with a Firefox Google search page. I'm not sure what kind of mandate OpenOffice has in this area, but what if there was an additional link under the help menu to “Search for Resources” for OpenOffice which takes the user to an OpenOffice Google search page? This would generate additional income for the project without being obnoxious or useless.

Documentation/Dashboard/DocOOo Structure

2007-05-04T17:04:07Z

Tigerfire:

Documentation/Dashboard/DocOOo Structure

2007-05-04T17:01:11Z

Tigerfire:

Documentation/Dashboard/DocOOo Structure

2007-05-03T18:31:08Z

Tigerfire: Organizing OpenOffice Wiki to maximize learning and update curve

==Organize By the Most Transparent Way of Approaching a Program==

It is tempting to organize the same way Microsoft Office does because people are very familiar with Microsoft Office. The advantage is people will understand and use features more quickly if they are already familiar with concept and location. The disadvantage is there may be a completely new way to doing something which is far more efficient and intuitive then the way Microsoft Office handles a feature.

All of your various ways of learning (multimedia, etc.) can be incorporated into the following wiki structure.

===Collaborative Wikis===

*Wikis are great for collaborative development. Perhaps restrict access somewhat in order to develop good quality information? Or leave open to everyone, but do not allow changes to become permanent until they've been approved by someone who is able to determine if the information improves the wiki or not. Using the wiki as primary source for all information which can be downloaded locally and even printed as a manual is a good idea.

*Perhaps Save Wiki by version. Primary versions only. Updates can be incorporated as Updates to the Primary version. When a new primary version comes out users should be recommended to upgrade and the previous wiki should be closed. This will encourage users and developers to put their efforts into maintaining and updating information in current wiki while still leaving the previous wiki available. Previous wikis can be maintained as an historical record.

===Structured Learning===

Most users approach a program by looking at what they can see first. If they can make sense of what they see, they will gradually learn more advanced concepts from this starting point.

So the best way to teach a program is to start with what the user sees and explain it in every way possible (text, spoken, multimedia, etc.). If you want to reinforce concepts even more, then include exercises so the user gets hands-on experience.

Do a review of each concept covered as a way of adding repetition. A summary of the material.

After you've covered what a learner sees, then begin to take them into what they don't see (the menu items and what they mean and do.

This is a thorough approach for non-emergency users and will result in a thorough understanding of OpenOffice.org. As a training mechanism for a company or educational institution, organizing information this way would be ideal. In addition because the information is organized in line with actual program components, updating information and placing it correctly will become much easier.

Your other common type of user will be the emergency user who just has to get something done right away and needs to know how to do it. To my mind, this information can be incorporated into the wiki structure discussed above and made searchable.

===Outline of Wiki concept for OpenOffice===

'''OpenOffice.org'''

Base/Calc/Draw/Impress/Math/Writer

*'''Users'''

**First deal with what a user sees when they first start the program
***Layout
***Default Toolbars

**Then deal with every option in detail
***Menu Bar

*'''Developers'''

**List the Requirements to work on software development.
**Perhaps a "Wizard" to assess background and help determine where a person's skills may be most useful.
**Provide in depth resources and tutorials and contacts for those who want to train themselves to help develop the software. The strength of open source development is the community. Provide tools and know-how to the community and you rapidly increase the pace of your development cycle. I would suggest this is probably one of the most important if not THE most important aspect of open source development. Make it easy for people to learn how to help. Provide tutorials on every aspect of development and watch your development cycle soar.
**Procedure to develop software. People to contact to get involved – depends on results of "Wizard"?
**Suggestions for Development of software
**Projects currently under development – Lists of people who are currently working on specific projects. Contact information for project leader.
**Completed Projects – Recorded changes by date and how they will change the wiki help file. These should be linked directly into the wiki for someone to update easily and quickly.

==Adding Value to OpenOffice.org==

There are other people who are working on projects which will add value to OpenOffice. Clipart and templates are two of these areas. I would suggest perhaps someone be asked to collect all of these together onto a page of links. Put a link in OpenOffice that connects to these pages, so a user can rapidly find new resources instead of hunting for them on the OpenOffice.org website. This will have the added utility of simplifying the website as well. Maybe put a template link and a clipart link under the “Help” Menu?

As a user, one of the first things I looked for was templates and clipart. It took some digging to find the following:

*http://openclipart.org/media/downloads
*http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates
*http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm

Unfortunately the clipart is not easy to get at as the low quality images are png thumbnails and the good quality images are svg which do not automatically open up in OpenOffice. It would actually be a very nice feature to add svg support to OpenOffice with basic editing ability such as resize/rotate/placement, etc. I have no idea how hard this would be. I believe computer art will tend more and more towards vector graphics as time goes on however, because of resize flexibility, quality of image, and better storage. Also computers will be able to handle the calculations involved with greater ease as time goes on.

I'm helping a lot of people with OpenOffice right now. I've set up several business with it and I also install it by default for everyone who is not interested in buying Microsoft Office. There are a couple of things which I think could be changed to give more visibility to OpenOffice.

Automatically delete installation files from desktop after installation

Place folder with shortcuts in it on desktop as well as in Program Folder Menu. This will make OpenOffice far more visible and easier to access for new users. If they want to delete the folder containing the shortcuts from their desktop they can. In the meantime it makes OpenOffice.org far more visible.

Question: Firefox is making money for Mozilla by starting with a Firefox Google search page. I'm not sure what kind of mandate OpenOffice has in this area, but what if there was an addional link under the help menu to “Search for Resources” for OpenOffice which takes the user to an OpenOffice Google search page? This would generate additional income for the project without being obnoxious or useless.