Key Question
Why is your location and the date you propose the best for OOoCon 2006?

Locating OooCon 2006 in France will give several advantages to the worldwide community, and Lyon is a particularly attractive town situated in the middle of our country (well approximately ;)

Our group has a large community of users and contributors, and is a strong member of the Native-Language Confederation. More than seven government ministries have now started their migration to Openoffice.org, or plan to adopt it. Major departments such as the Direction Générale des Impôts (taxation), the National Gendarmerie, and the Ministry of Culture are using OOo and contributing to the community with documentation and tools. Many hospitals, schools and universities, and city councils are using OOo on a day to day basis!

While our community includes a large base of professionals, it also involves OOo specialists such as consultancies, developers or trainers who participate actively in the project. Outside the community, several organizations such as April, Aful, Adullact, and Mutualibre are strong open-source software supporters, and promote our project through their activities. This creates opportunities for dialogue between different types of communities with different perspectives.

As for Lyon, it's a delightful town, a listed UNESCO World Heritage City, very modern and well equipped with all the necessary infrastructure for this kind of event (several universities, conference centres, special passes for transportation...). Lyon is not very far from Germany, so our Hamburg team will find it easy to attend, and also quite central in Europe for several countries. Please have an overview of Lyon by visiting this site or the city site, where you'll find information about Lyon's history, culture, and current events.

Lyon is also a well known place for gastronomy, what about spending an evening all together in a famous "Bouchon" ?

The conference will be organized in INSA, one of the top French engineering universities. INSA Lyon (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon), multidisciplinary and international, is at the heart of the European Higher Education Area. Accomodation (in rooms for 2 people) is available five minute's walk away.

Location (country, city, conference center/university)

France, Lyon, INSA de Lyon  (site available in several languages)

Proposed Date(s)

11/12/13 September 2006

Team Lead (main contact person)

Sophie Gautier

Tony Galmiche

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 2005)

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

Special visa or entry requirements, e.g. vaccinations

Visa for people outside the Schengen area (but not for all), no vaccinations.

Large local OpenOffice.org deployments (for user keynotes and success stories)

Ministry of Finance and Direction Générale des Impôts, Ministry of Equipement, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of National Education, representing more than 200 000 seats.

Hospitals :
Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace (300 seats/postes)
Centre Hospitalier de Roubaix (1000 seats/postes)
Centre Hospitalier de Bourg En Bresse (100 seats/postes)
Centre Hospitalier Charles Perrens (450 seats/postes)
Centre Hospitalier de Pontoise (20 seats (1000 postes pending))
Centre Hospitalier Philippe Pinel (400 seats/postes)
Centre Hospitalier Avranches/Granville (400 seats/postes)
CHU de Besanḉon (450 seats/postes)
Centre Hospitalier Henry Ey (300 seats/postes)

Plus many schools, city halls and companies are too numerous to be cited, please see some lists here :
http://fr.openoffice.org/Marketing/Listes/scolaire.htm
http://fr.openoffice.org/Marketing/Listes/Entreprises.htm

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

Eric Bachard, Laurent Godard, Bernard Marcelly, Alain Novak, Pierre-André Galmes, Cédric Bosdonnat, Eric Bishoff, Héléne Petit, Florent Mannens, Isabelle Hurbain.
We may also invite several developers from other communities like Mandriva, Mozilla, Debian...

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

Travel costs (e.g. flight costs from the following cities: London, Paris, Rome, Beijing, Sydney, New York, Hamburg, Dublin, San Francisco, South Africa, Tokyo)

• Lyon - London/Heathrow 70 to 190 euro A/R, Easyjet or British Airways
• Lyon - Rome 240 to 540 euro A/R
• Lyon - Hamburg 270 euro A/R
• Lyon - Dublin 250 440 euro A/R
• Lyon - Prague 280 euro A/R
• Paris - Lyon by TGV (High speed train 1h55) or flight is about 100 to 150 euro

Accommodation costs (youth hostel, hotel)

• International journey center
• Youth hostel
• Hostels

Average meal costs

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