OOoCon05 in Koper-Capodistria:

THE ADRIATIC EXPERIENCE

Slovenian OOo team

PLIO - Italian OOo team

Who are the organizers?

OOo in Slovenia and Italy

OOoCon05 locations

OOoCon05 program

OOoCon05 activities

Koper-Capodistria

Invitation

Contents

Organizers

Slovenian OOo team	http://sl.openoffice.org

lead: Robert Ludvik, co-lead: Urska Colner

OOo translations

awarded for the translation of 1.0.2 and for the best open-source application

marketing strategies for OOo

Italian OOo team:	http://it.openoffice.org

leads: Davide Dozza, Ricardo Losselli

OOo translation

marketing

implementation

OOoCon05 locations

in town center

rooms for presentations, lectures

workshop presentations

info points

restaurants, hotels, the beach nearby

Adriatic sea

Italy

Slovenia

Drawing by Daniel Carrera

Conference program

Wednesday, 28/9/05

community members get-together

sub-project meetings (native-lang, docs, marketing ...)

informal

preparation for the conference

not for outside public

Thursday, 29/9/05 - public topics

General

OpenOffice.org 2.0

Commercializing, integrating, and supporting OpenOffice.org, finding help

Migration methodology

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

Public Administration & Enterprises

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

Friday, 30/9/05 - public topics

General

XML

OASIS OpenDocument XML format

Introduction to XML

Examples of XML technology

XML: bridge between OpenOffice.org and other tools

Education

OpenOffice.org in schools and universities

Education programs-projects for evolving computer literacy

Case studies of students'/pupils' help in developing OpenOffice.org

Analysis of OOo in schools

Integrating OOo with existing tools/environments

Additional activities planned

Wine tasting
(the Primorska region is known for some of the best wines in the world)

Visits to the Postojna cave or other coastal towns (Portorose, Piran, Venice, Trieste)

Evening events

Other optional activities

OOo in Slovenia, Italy

Slovenia:

Award for the localization of OOo 1.0.2

Award (3rd place) for the best open-source application

Implementations by some of the largest Slovenian companies

Used in schools (together with Linux Pingo)

Info: website for sl.OOo support already has 700 registered users, their number increasing every day

Italy:

Some of the largest OOo implementations

Companies offer support and user education for OOo

OOo is used and backed by cca 150 companies

Contacts

OOoCon05 website:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/

Urska Colner, MarCon for Slovenia
email: ursacol02@openoffice.org

Robert Ludvik, sl.ooo team lead
email: bobe@openoffice.org
web: http://sl.openoffice.org

Davide Dozza, it.ooo team co-lead
email: ddozza@openoffice.org

Invitation

How you can participate:

send a paper and become a speaker at the conference

become a sponsor and support the conference and the project financially or materially

visit the conference in september

slide 3:

this is a good time to thank all of you who voted for koper.

the slovenian and italian OOo teams were honored to be trusted with this task and koper will be happy to host this kind of event.

slide 4: locations

for the location we chose immediate town center of Koper-Capodistria, because we wanted to give a different feel to the whole event.

usually, conferences are held in boring conference rooms and centers, so we decided to lighten the thing up by using rooms from the theater, a gallery and similar.

these rooms are still mostly presentation rooms, already used for conferences, except they have an ocean view. :)

slide 5: a map of slovenia, italy and koper

as you can see in this nice map (by Daniel C.), Koper is situated in the coastal region of Slovenia, next to the border with Italy. Trieste, Venice and other beautiful sights are just 0.5 to 1 hour away.

note: robert has warned me about the map missing corsica, sardinia and sicily. i hope noone will be offended by this. :)

slide 6: the program-wednesday

Now to the program: wednesday will be focused on the community and preparations for the next two days.

right now, the plan is to keep these events semi-closed, which means that only community members (those participating in the OOo project) would attend the afternoon and evening event.

so: wednesday is officially the start of the conference, but there will be no presentations and official conference program yet.

Slide 7: program for thursday

general topics will be covered on thursday and friday. this will include all of the topics mentioned, and others that will not fit into any other category but might be interesting.

thursday will also be focused on the development of OOo, since we expect many developers and OOo experts in Koper. we hope to have the privilage of having pavel janik as a guest speaker, since he has done much for the slovenian OOo builds (amongst others)

the public administration and enterprises topic will cover presentations of large implementations and uses of OOo in government establishments and enterprises. This will be of interest to those who are thinking of migrating but are not yet sure of how it works. this part will also include case-studies of using OOo in different production environments.

slide 8: friday's program

besides general topics, this day will also focus on XML technology on the one hand and integrating and using OOo in schools on the other.

we hope to get many on-hands presentations and workshops here, by people directly involved in the educational process. for one, ian lynch (the INGOTS lead) has already confirmed his involvement. :)

slide 9: additional activities

besides the official conference program, conference participants will also be able to do many other things. since this is one of the best wine regions in the world (ok, i'm really not being modest here :), we will try to arrange something like a wine-tasting party or a visit to a wine cellar.

koper is a tourist-focused town, so there are numerous things to do, especially in the summer. some will probably want to visit Trieste or Venice in Italy, or any other slovenian or italian tourist attractions.

before the conference, on wednesday, we are planning a community get-together in the evening. but let's keep details a surprise. :)

slide 10: OOo in Italy and Slovenia

as we've already mentioned in the application for the organization of the conference, great work has been done in slovenia and italy on the adoption of OOo.

in slovenia, the localized version of OOo has received some very appraised awards, and can boast with some large implementations of it in companies and schools.

davide would be able to give more info on what has been done in italy, but i warn you their track records are pretty impressive :)

slide 11: contacts

in case anyone is interested in anything regarding the conference, these are the important emails and websites to check. most of the questions regarding the conference, though, should be forwarded to the marketing.openoffice.org mailing lists.

ooocon_discuss@marketing.openoffice.org

slide 12: invitation

this slide says it all. if you wish to participate in any way, you are welcome to do so. we will be happy to simply have you as a visitor, but if you feel the need to dispose of some financial assets, too, we don't mind :)

OOoCon05: The Adriatic Experience

11/6/2005

Urška Colner

2005-06-04T08:49:38

Daniel Carrera