OpenOffice.org Conference 2005
We are soliciting for papers from the broad OpenOffice.org community in the areas of European software politics, the Open Source movement, and corporate involvement in OpenOffice.org, as well as papers on Development, Localization and Marketing of OpenOffice.org. The conference will also include an exhibition space.
The conference will cover the following OpenOffice.org topics organized in five tracks:
1. General
OpenOffice.org 2.0
Commercializing, integrating, and supporting OpenOffice.org
Migration methodology
Funding the project, defining the product, and extending it
Attracting people (programmers, documentation writers, linguists, support, marketing...)
2. Education
OpenOffice.org in schools and universities
Case studies of student's/pupil's help in developing OpenOffice.org
Skill recognition
3. 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
4. Public Administration & Small Business
Case studies of OpenOffice.org in government and business (SME)
Government support of OpenOffice.org (and FOSS in general)
Collaboration of PA and SME in developing, deploying and using OpenOffice.org
5. XML
OASIS OpenDocument XML format
Introduction to XML
Examples of XML technology
XML: bridge between OpenOffice.org and other tools
Please submit an abstract by fullfilling the template and sending it to the email:
callforpapers@openoffice.org
Template for paper submission
As the OpenOffice.org Community consists of members from countries all over the world the talk should be in English.
Your proposal must be sent before 4 July 2005 in order to be considered for inclusion in the Conference.
We recommend to use the OpenOffice.org Impress template for your presentation.
... and stay tuned for further information ...
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