OpenOffice.org Online Talk Sessions
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Objective
Create an online conference full of marketing, technical and users talks. This is with the objective to accelrate the communicationa and community exchange of information in multiple ways. Also to keep the community updated on the projects evolutions and foster new contributors.
Structure
The online conference would be announced on the OpenOffice.org site and program will be maintained on the Wiki. Organizers will be able to request, process and develop a program that can be announced to the external media through the marketing project.
The conference rooms will be handled by the WizIQ service which enable presentations live with very few requirements for the assitants. Video and audio broadcast information should be requested through the call for paper talk.
The topics will focus on developers, marketers, locales and users. The users track has been one of the most requested track on past OOoCon and we could use online conferences as a testbed for end user tracks.
Timeline
Depending on the evaluation process and acceptance the timeline will be shorter than a physical conference. We could generate enough buzz within 1 month of preparing the conference. Also the conference could take longer since we are not restricted of making this talks. I propose a space of 3 weeks. Most of the schedule would be Europe based since the developers and most of the community revolve around these timezones.
1 week
- Start the call for papers
- Put a site in marketing explaining the concept
- Start the request for logo on the ART project
- Request sponsors
2 week
- Website team can generate a custom min-site for our project
- Marketing start pushing the news out to sites like slashdot, digg, zdnet, etc.
- Call for papers would be evaluated
3 week
- Tracks start showing up proposals
- WizIQ/Dimdim tool is tested and have some trials
- Mini-site goes live with the artwork
- Call for papers last call
- Settle with sponsors
4 week
- Finalize the call for papers
- Structure the programme
- Put the sponsors on the mini-site
- Put a registrar app in place
