OOops darn forgive any repeats, I sent the first one with the wrong ID On Tuesday 23 January 2007 02:45, Juergen Schmidt wrote: > Hi Jonathon, > > thanks for this interesting summary of the event. I would be happy to > participate next year to present on programmability features of > OpenOffice.org in general and in detail. Maybe it is also possible to > organize a workshop or some kind of hands on lab. > > Feel free to contact me directly, i have plans to evangelize the > programmability features of OO.org more and more in the future. Any > pointer,invitation to big events where we can reach a huge audience is > appreciated and helpful. > > Juergen
That would be brilliant, I suggested such a course to Kay Ramme late last year when we were discussing promoting UNO, but there was obviously not enough time to sort it. May I suggest that as well as the MiniConf that you consider submitting an abstract for the main conference as well. LCA is one of the largest FOSS developer conferences and has considerable influence. Linus Torvalds is a regular attendee as are a lot of the "RockStars" of FOSS. Last year this included Maddog Hall of Linux and Mark Shuttleworth founder of Ubuntu. This year, Andrew Tannenbaum creator of Minix and Chris Brizzard (of OLPC showing off some prototypes of the $100 laptop.) to name some. The OOo "Rockstar" this year was Mike Carden, Preservation Software Manager at the Australia National Archives talking about his baby; a cute piece of software called XENA that uses OOo as a plugin (XENA is an acronym for something which I can't remember... except that the X stands for XML :) ) XENA converts electronic documents in proprietary formats to Open Document Format for archiving. It's a little more complex than that because it adds metadata both to the converted file and the original before storing but you get the idea. Mike did presentations both at the Miniconf and in the main conference. Is there perhaps an argument to be made for holding a Full OOo conf in Melbourne that meshes in with the LCA MiniConf and the main Conf itself? Cheers GL -- "GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG" http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer Moderator New Zealand (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz GET DRESSED GET OOOGEAR http://ooogear.co.nz
