OOoCon 2007

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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 attendees 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)
  • Miguel Galán, komputerman at gmail.com (UB student, OO.org user from 1.1, mid-level catalan and english speaker, interested on Bibliographic)

(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)

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.

Sponsors that have shown interest

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

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

14th March at University of Barcelona

Attendants: Jordi Matas (UB), Isabel Àlvarez (UB), Josep Figols (Sun), Critina Montserrat (Sun), Jesús Corrius (Softcatalà/Openoffice.org), Jordi Mas (Softcatalà) i Anna Grau (Softcatalà).

Ignasi Labastida (could not attend)

Issues discussed

  • Organisation team

The organisation team are UB, Sun, Openoffice.org and Softcatalà.

UB assigns Ignasi Labastida and Isabel Àlvarez to coordinate the efforts with the university.

Sun assigns Joan Carles Agusti (was not in the meeting) to coordinate the efforts with Sun Microystems.

Jesús Corrius will keep leading the effort from Softcatalà with help from Anna Grau and Jordi Mas.

  • Fix the dates for the conference

- Final dates are 19th, 20th and 21th of September - The 23rd of September is bank holiday in Barcelona. There is a very extensive program or cultural activities for the day. - 20th of September inauguration with local authorities

  • Classrooms requirements

The following classrooms have been requested:

- A classroom for the keynotes. Capacity: 180 people (Aula Magna) - Two smaller classrooms with capacity for 50 people - Also we have the classrom "Ramón y Cajal" (for 15/30 people) available.

All the classrooms must have Wifi Internet connection and a projector.

  • Meals and coffee

- Request budget to the local University Cafeteria for the conference. Basically Coffe and some pastry. Twice a day (breakfast and afternoon snack).

- What to do with meals? People can have lunch on their own and then we can have sponsored dinners (e.g. Novell is interested in sponsoring one).

- Define requirements for inauguration day (cava, pastry, etc). It is possible to celebrate it in the garden (nice weather and environment).

  • Posters

- We can have posters (DIN A3 size) during the conference days indicating who to get into the classrooms. Same posters can be used for promoting the days before the conference between students.

- We can have a large poster in the frontdoor of the building. 13 meters by 1.5. Its cost is around 800 euros.

Next steps

  • Softcatalà

- Get a name of an international coordinator of the Openoffice.org Conference and also is a Sun employee. (Jesús Corrius). - Get the exact number of people that attended to the conference last year and the number of people that required cheap lodging. - We all agree that having stands makes no much sense. Find out who is interested in the stands and if they were successful in previous conferences. May me make sense to change them for commercial presentations of the companies and their efforts regarding Openoffice.org or success cases. (Jesús Corrius) - Get the Wiki at Openoffcie.org linked in Softcatalà (Jordi) and also in Openoffice.org (Jesus Corrius). - Write the Drupal Conference folks and inform them of the final dates for the conference (Jesus Corrius) - Talk to Vilaweb and offer them to cover the event using a special bloc (Jordi). Also talk to la Malla ràdio if they want to do the program from the event one day (Jordi) - Make an initial budget for the event (Jordi) - Create a list of tasks to do and a assign a person to them (Anna) - Contact Ignasi Labastida (Anna) - Phone CSIC hall of residence to ask for accomodation (Anna) - Check the total cost of Kiberpipa (Jordi / Jesús) - Look after the budget and also sponsors (Jordi Mas). - Look after posters and the printed version of the program (Anna Grau).

  • Sun

- Give us the e-mail address of Joan Carles Agusti

  • UB (Isabel Àlvarez)

- List of nearby restaurants ordered by prices - Reserve rooms for those days (aula magna is already reserved). - Request budget to the local University Cafeteria for the conference. Basically Coffe and some pastry for threee days (twice a day). - Give us the name of their last manufacturer for the posters. - Ask if it is possible to lodge some people in its halls of residence. How many people? Where? - Ask prices and disponibility for their Audiovisual services

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.

Call for papers

There is a page with all the information for the call for papers for the Conference. The deadline for sending proposals is 1 June 2007.

Conference news

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