Graham Lauder wrote:
Hi Jonathon,
Define the value. I must admit I'm a little concerned myself. Right now I'm a poor student trying to wrangle cash to get to the conference. Not having a OOo/INGOTs focus point would be a bit of a problem.
Would you say then that this is pretty much a developers only conference.
The programme is general, enterprise and integration of OOo in the morning tending to development in the afternoon, on both days.
http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/miniconf/programme.html
There are very few conferences that we can attend where we have the opportunity, particularly for OOo developers, to attract and mentor other potential developers and contributors. Fortunately, in Australia (and surrounds) we have quite a few OOo developers that are not employees of Sun. So their experience will be similar to most other developers starting out on the OOo codebase.
As I said in a previous message, if INGOTs assessors and people interested in the INGOTs programme wish to get together, you may wish to propose and organise a BOF for the Wednesday evening.
You may also wish to check out the EduLinux miniconf schedule and see if there are presentations that you would prefer to attend. It is called EduLinux, but it really covers OSS in Education.
The inaugural EducationaLinux was in Perth, see: http://members.plug.org.au/~leonb/lca2003/, and for last year in Adelaide see: http://educationalinux.adam.com.au/programme.html
At this stage you will need to contact the EduLinux organiser, as I don't appear to be able to locate the schedule for EduLinux miniconf http://220.244.126.94/lca/
Regards Jacqueline
