The 2007 OpenOffice.org International Conference will be
held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on 19th-21st September.
See the Conference website:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007
The OpenOffice.org Community invites potential speakers to
submit proposals for papers. Whether you are a seasoned
presenter, or have never stood up in public before, if you
have something interesting to share about OpenOffice.org -
we want to hear from you.
Your proposal should be submitted before 1 June 2007 in
order to guarantee that it will be considered for inclusion
in the Conference.
We are soliciting papers from the broad OpenOffice.org
community on topics ranging from developing OpenOffice.org
to marketing it; from the global politics of the free and
open-source software (FOSS) movement to the technical
challenges of localization. This conference is meant to be
a forum for technical as well as general examinations of
OpenOffice.org's place in the expanding world of FOSS.
Covered topics
The conference will be organized into the following
streams:
General
* OpenOffice.org 3.0
* Commercializing, integrating, and supporting
OpenOffice.org
* Migration methodology
* Marketing
* Branding and artwork
* Funding the project, defining the product, and extending
it
* Attracting people (programmers, documentation writers,
linguists, support, marketing...)
* The OpenOffice.org Community: Past, Present and Future
Native-Languages
* More than translation: building local language
communities
* Tools and techniques for localisations
* The OpenOffice.org Release Process
Public Administration
* Case studies of OpenOffice.org in Government, Local,
National, supra-national...
* Government support of OpenOffice.org (and FOSS in general)
* Collaboration of PA in developing, deploying and using
OpenOffice.org
Enterprises
* Case studies of OpenOffice.org in private sector
(SME - Small to Medium-sized Enterprise)
* Building a successful business around OpenOffice.org
(training, migration, support, development of extensions,
technical authors...)
* System integration with OpenOffice.org (ODF, UNO, API,
extensions)
Development
* The source and how to work with it
* The Roadmap
* Tools for development
* Integration and localization
* UNO and what it can do
* QA, user interface, and development processes
* Macros and installers
* Extensions
* Filters and other topics....
XML & OASIS OpenDocument Format
* OASIS OpenDocument XML format
* Introduction to XML
* Examples of XML technology
* XML: bridge between OpenOffice.org and other tools
How to submit a Proposal
Note. As the OpenOffice.org community consists of members
from countries all over the world the talk must be in
English.
Please limit your presentation to 50 minutes, including
questions.
Submissions must be made via the link on the Conference
website. The link will be available on Monday 2nd April
and your proposal (abstract) must be submitted before 1st
June in order to be considered for inclusion in the
Conference.
Types of Session
A presentation is a general discussion of some topic,
including (but not limited to) the software, the
community, relationships with other software or
communities, and political or philosophical issues.
A case study is a specific type of presentation that
tells what you did to achieve some result; this is
usually a success story, but could include a discussion
of what mistakes you made and how you overcame them.
A workshop is a "how-to" session, in which the presenter
gives step-by-step instructions for doing some task such
as writing macros, setting up a database, or developing a
complex spreadsheet. Workshops usually include some
audience activities.
A BoF (Birds of a Feather meeting) is an informal
gathering of people in a particular group, or interested
in a specific topic. Examples include the members of a
native-language group, the marketing project,
documentation writers, or Macintosh coders.
A panel discussion involves a group of people (usually 3
or 4) led by a moderator. The participants make opening
and closing statements on the topic, may discuss the
topic among themselves, and may answer questions from
the audience (usually submitted in advance).
A lightning talk is a brief presentation on any topic
relevant to the conference. It could be an interesting
format to give many people the chance to make their point
in a series of exactly 5 minute slots.
Travel Subsidy
The template for paper submission includes a section for
requesting a travel subsidy. At this point we are not in a
position to offer funding for all speakers, and those
speakers who do get a subsidy are unlikely to have their
full expenses covered. Each request will be considered on
the basis of both merit and need, so if you are requesting
a subsidy, please give as much information as possible to
help us evaluate your request. Please note that someone
presenting only a lightning talk is unlikely to receive
assistance.
Presentation Materials
An OpenOffice.org Impress template recommended for use for
the conference presentations will be published around 1
June 2007. All speakers are required to file a copy of
their presentations with the Conference organisers. These
presentations will be filed on the Conference website.
Please note that your session may be streamed as a live
broadcast and may be recorded and made available for
download from the Conference website.
... and keep a watch on
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/
for more information ...
We look forward to receiving your proposals.
