[Fwd: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org selects Barcelona for theOpenOffice.org Conference 2007]

[Erwin Tenhumberg <Erwin.Tenhumberg@Sun.COM>]

FYI

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• From: John McCreesh <jpmcc@openoffice.org>
• To: announce@openoffice.org
• Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:19:14 +0000 (GMT)

Members of the OpenOffice.org Community have selected Barcelona, Spain as
the venue for their 2007 Annual Conference in September.  The result of
the on-line ballot of Community members was as follows:

Barcelona, Spain      297
Dehradun, India       224
Beijing, China         82

The figures show the continuing growth of the OpenOffice.org community,
with the number of votes cast over 40% up on last year.  In particular,
the presence of two very strong proposals from the Asia-Pacific region
reflects the huge success and potential for OpenOffice.org in this part of
the world.

Jesús Corrius, leader of the successful bid, was delighted with the
result: "We are very happy. The Catalan, Spanish, Basque and Galician
communities with the help of the University of Barcelona, and the
support of the Catalan and Spanish Government, will work hard to make
Barcelona the best place to hold an OpenOffice.org Conference."

Previous Conferences have been held in France, Slovenia, and Germany, and
have been noted for the quality of the conference sessions and the warmth
of the social gatherings.

The Conference website is here:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007
People interested in attending are invited to subscribe to the
Conference mailing list by sending a blank email to
mailto:ooocon2007_discuss-subscribe@marketing.openoffice.org

About OpenOffice.org

The OpenOffice.org Community is an international team of volunteer and
sponsored contributors who develop, support, and promote the leading
open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org®. OpenOffice.org's
leading edge software technology (UNO) is also available for developers,
systems integrators, etc to use in OpenOffice.org extensions or in their
own applications.

OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office Applications
(OpenDocument) OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) as well as legacy industry
file formats and is available on major computing platforms in over 70
languages. OpenOffice.org software is provided under the GNU Lesser
General Public Licence (LGPL) and may be used free of charge for any
purpose, private or commercial.

The OpenOffice.org Community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a
number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founding sponsor and
primary contributor.

Links

OpenOffice.org 2.2 may be downloaded free of charge from
http://download.openoffice.org/

The OpenOffice.org Community can be found at http://www.openoffice.org/ To
learn more about the Community see http://about.openoffice.org/ The Native
Language Project is at
http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html

Further information about OpenOffice.org products:

      * the OpenOffice.org office suite for users:
        http://www.openoffice.org/product/
      * OpenOffice.org Universal Network Objects (UNO) for developers:
        http://udk.openoffice.org/
      * OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers:
        http://api.openoffice.org/


Press Contacts
Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -05h00)
OpenOffice.org Community Manager
louis@openoffice.org
+1 (416) 625 3843

John McCreesh (UTC +0h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead
jpmcc@openoffice.org
+44 (0)7 810 278 540

Cristian Driga (UTC +0200)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead
cdriga@openoffice.org
+40 7887 000 60

Worldwide Marketing Contacts
http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html





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