OpenOffice.org, now used by millions throughout the world, has a conference of its own, OOoCon 2004, where you can meet the community of developers, users, and businesses that are contributing to this invaluable open source solution.

Organizers are soliciting papers from the broad OpenOffice.org community in the areas of 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 two tracks:

General:

• General Usage and Features
• Business and Government
• Marketing
• The Community
• Open Source

Development:

• Software Development Kit
• Standards (especially XML)
• Localization
• Porting
• QA

The general sessions will talk about lessons learned during migration and deployment, the OpenOffice.org roadmap and Open Source philosophy. Topics for developers cover the overall process, QA, porting and localization, as well as the Software Development Kit.

The conference is set for September 22-24, 2004 at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. [...read more...]

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