Revision as of 16:30, 26 February 2007

OOoCon 2007 Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)

Proposed Date(s)

3rd week of September 2007

19/20/21 of September 2007 could be a good date. The attendants could spend the following weekend visiting the city.

NOTE: 11th September is the National Day of Catalonia and the University, as well as most places in the city, is closed.

Team Lead (main contact person)

• Jesús Corrius (Catalan Native Lang Project Leader / L10N), jesus at softcatala.org

Team Members (all 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

(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.

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

• 11th of September is the National Day of Catalonia
• 19th - 22nd September: Drupalcon Barcelona 2007

Names of local OpenOffice.org developers (for developer sessions)

• OPS Consulting
• Jesús Corrius, Softcatalà (Catalan L10N)
• Iñaki Larrañaga (Basque L10N)
• Ruben Da Silva (Galician L10N)

Names of local OpenOffice.org vendors/partners (potential sponsors)

• T-Systems
• Novell Barcelona
• Generalitat de Catalunya
• Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• Rinho Sistemas
• OPENTIA
• EstándaresAbiertos.org (open standards promotion project).
• Ajuntament de Barcelona
• Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade

Sponsors that have show interest

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

• Ministerio de Industria Turismo y Comercio. Contact Roberto Santos

How can you help

Help us indentifying:

• People in the area of Barcelona can help as voluntaries in the proposed dates
• Large local OpenOffice.org deployments (for user keynotes and success stories) in Spain
• Names of local OpenOffice.org developers (for developer sessions) in Spain
• Names of local OpenOffice.org vendors/partners (potential sponsors) in Spain

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

Contact

You can contact the organisation at the ooocon2007_discuss@marketing.openoffice.org by sending an empty message to ooocon2007_discuss-subscribe@marketing.openoffice.org.