Revision as of 11:35, 15 March 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

Person that is leading the conference.

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

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)

(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

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

• 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.

• T-Systems
• Novell Barcelona
• Generalitat de Catalunya
• Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• Rinho Sistemas
• OPENTIA
• EstándaresAbiertos.org (open standards promotion project).
• 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.

• Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade. Contact Roberto Santos <roberto.santos at hispalinux.es>

Video coverage

Kiberpipa media team is again offering to cover the conference 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.

The fist meeting is scheduled for next 14th of March, 17.30h at University of Barcelona.

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.

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.