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OOoCon 2007 proposal of Beijing, China Key Question: Why is your location and the date you propose the best for OOoCon 2007? Location (country, city, conference center/university) Proposed Date(s) Main contact person Team Members (all members should be willing and able to commit at least 3 hours per day to planning the conference during the last two weeks before OOoCon 2007) Local events that are taking place in parallel (or right before/after) Keynotes list Special visa or entry requirements, e.g. vaccinations Development and use of local OOo technologies Potential sponsors Travel costs (e.g. flight costs from the following cities: London, Paris, Rome, Beijing, Sydney, New York, Hamburg, Dublin, San Francisco, Cape Town, Tokyo) Communications in Beijing Climate of Beijing Annotations Why 2007 OOo Conference shall be held in Beijing? China market has great influence on the promotion of OOo China boasts the broadest potential user market in the world. At present, the number of computer users has hit 137 million and users of broad band Internet access have amounted to over 100 million. OOo community, as a global open community and organization, has enjoyed a very high popularity and reputation while it has not been familiarized by China industry insiders; therefore, choosing Beijing to host OOo annual conference 2007 shall be the best and the most direct means to enhance OOo's popularity in China and allow OOo to play a more critical role throughout the world. OOo annual conference to be held in China will substantially increase loyal OOo users In China, there are 10 million sets of OpenOffice.org software pre-installed in the computer along with Linux or other channels every year while only less than 5% of end users will use OO , for which main reason is that China users have not much idea about OOo. Hence, OOo annual conference to be held in Beijing will showcase the power of the community and strengthen users' understanding of open source software; according to our estimation, OOo annual conference in Beijing will turn over 25% of China users with pre-installed OO's into loyal users. Beijing Municipality supports open source software campaign Since 2001, Beijing Municipality has actively propelled the application of open source software and in 2001 and 2002 a great deal of OO and Linux products were adopted for governmental procurement of Beijing; in the subsequently launched project of "Sailing", open source software was required to be comprehensively applied in office systems of the municipal government and all participating enterprises producing open source software are asked to contribute corresponding achievement to the community. As the first local government adopting OO in China, Beijing has been always promoting OOo products and now there are over 200 local governments using OOo products in China. OOo annual conference in Beijing may facilitate the combination of China standard UOF with ODF Since early 2002, Beijing Municipality, together with other relevant enterprises, has been practicing the promotion and formulation of open document format standard. Currently, the promotion of incorporation of document format standard UOF, formulated by China, and ODF, is a course the Beijing Municipality and relevant enterprises (such as SUN, Redflag CH2000 Co.,Ltd and IBM, etc) are propelling. The year of 2007 is a year that decides whether a critical step can be taken in incorporation of two standards. In this case, OOo annual conference in Beijing will allow Chinese senior leaders to really accept that open document format is an unavoidable trend of global information technology. With rapid development of China IT industry, China is becoming the software research and development center of the world. Since there are many quality software R&D professionals, OOo annual conference to be held in Beijing will allow more technicians to understand OOo and make more contribution to the community. Beijing welcomes all worldwide OOo elites Beijing is a city with ancient culture and modern civilization. Living costs for accommodation, transportation and catering are much lower than those of the European countries and there are many convenient direct flights to Beijing from all over the world. In 2006, Forum on China-Africa Cooperation had been held successfully in Beijing and subsequently the 29th Olympic Games will be also hosted in 2008. Therefore, Beijing has enough power to host OOo conference and she will try her best to ensure successful delivery of the conference. Preparatory committee of the conference will provide you with convenient service: Each participant is only requested to pay 200 Euro including all accommodation expenses during 3-day conference and they can also enjoy free travel two days after the conference. For more information on arrangement of conference, visit the website of preparatory organization: http://www.OOoCon2007.cn Site for the Annual Conference Beijing, China Beijing Conference Center (http://www.bj-bcc.com/Fore/index.htm ) The building of Beijing Conference Center was funded by Beijing Municipality and the Conference Center is in charge of holding all kinds of important conferences of the State and Beijing Municipality. Suggested time for the Conference Conference time: Sept. 19, 20 and 21, 2007 Tour time: Sept. 22 and 23, 2007 Key contacts of the Preparation Group of the Conference Zhang Peng 8610-58022080 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wang Ying 8610-58022828 ext. 637 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Junge 8610-58022828 ext.295 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Members of the Preparation Group Beijing RedFlag Chinese 2000 Software Technology Co., Ltd. (http://www.ch2000.com.cn/) Changfeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance http://www.bsw.gov.cn/english/en_index.jsp Software College of Peking University (http://www.ss.pku.edu.cn/en/ ) Relevant simultaneous activities with the Conference 1. Conference of OpenOffice.org Global Users (the typical users of OOo in the world are invited to probe into the problems and development direction of OOo together) 2. Seminar on Promoting Development of OpenOffice.org in Asia (the key personnel of OOo and the technicians of OOo in Asia are invited to emphatically probe into the development and promotion of OOo in Asia) Keynotes list Road for Combined Development of UOF and ODF Development and Trend of OpenOffice.org Technologies in China Latest Applications of Open Source Technologies in Enterprises Requirements for Applications to enter China The travel visa shall be applied at the Chinese embassy in your country (different countries have different conditions and requirements for the tour to China, please consult your local Chinese embassy) No Vaccination. http://www.chinese-embassy.org.uk/eng/ (UK) http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cede/det/ (Germany) http://www.amb-chine.fr/ (France) http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/ceat/det/ (Austria) http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/ceit/ita/ (Italy) http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/ (USA) Development and use of local OOo technologies Keeping in step with the development of OOo There is a technical team in China (Beijing RedFlag Chinese2000 Software Technology Co.,Ltd. ) who has been engaging in the study of OOo since 2001 and the team introduced a mature OOo product�DRedOffice in the same year, won the bidding for the purchase of Beijing Municipality after its introduction and owned its first users in China. In the following years, a lot of products based on OOo like RedOffice were consecutively introduced in China. More and more industry insiders in China have began to pay attention to OOo and they actively participated in the activities of OOo and vigorously promoted the development of OOo in China. For example, in August 2006, the relevant competent departments of Beijing Municipality invited Patrick J. Gannon, CEO of OASIS, to Beijing and to deeply probe into the standards of ODF document with the government departments, standard administration institutions and software enterprises. For another example, in September 2006, Beijing RedFlag Chinese2000 Software Technology Co.,Ltd., the first team of China engaging in the research and development of OO , participated in the 4th OpenOffice.org International Annual Conference Forum in Lyon, France and held a special lecture to introduce the conditions of OOo in China. Excellent language localization China has 56 nationalities with Han having the largest population, the major language of China is Chinese and Chinese characters are used in China, in 2001, China has completed the localization of OOo language based on Chinese and had many mature OOo products. But as many nationalities in China still use their own languages and characters, Chinese government specially set up a state project to be specially responsible for the research and development of the office software in different national languages and finally decided that Beijing RedFlag Chinese2000 Software Technology Co.,Ltd., who has been engaging in the research and development of OO all the time, shall undertake the project, so OpenOffice.org has become the only office software used in the localization of multiple national languages, and the different editions of OOo products in multiple national languages �D RedOffice in Mongol language, RedOffice in Tibetan language and RedOffice in Uygur language, such products are brilliant contributions to the language localization of OO and have been applied in areas with multiple nationalities. OOo technical power being continuously strengthened There are many products in China based on the research and development of OO, such as RedOffice, Co-Create Office and China Standard-Puhua Office etc., the technical teams who researched and development these products have grasped the core technologies for the Chinese operation of OO, they not only have high quality OOo consultants, trainers, research and development personnel, but only actively carry out the market promotion of OOo. China also has many organizations and institutions who support open source, such as Changfeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance, China Software & Integrated Circuit Promotion Center and China Open Source Software Promotion Union, they have been actively providing fund and technology support to OO all the time and have made great contributions to the development of OOo. OO has a lot users in China OO is one of the open source softwares achieved the greatest success in China in commercialization and promotion, it is broadly used in all regions and industries and has a lot users. Let's take RedOffice, the most popular OpenOffice.org product in Chinese market, for an example, RedOffice is the first product in China researched and development basing on OO, it was introduced in 2001 with the People's Government of Beijing Municipality as the first user, till now it has been applied in nearly two hundred local governments of different provinces and cities, such as Beijing and Guangdong, and more than a thousand enterprises and public institutions due to its excellent functions and ease of use, its users cover a lot industries such as government, education, water resources, electric power, tobacco, medicine, iron & steel and coal mining. Till present, the amount of the relevant OOo products pre-installed in China has exceeded 10 million seats, the actual used amount of OOo products has exceeded 1 million seats, and the numbers are increasing all the time. Potential sponsors Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/ Co-Create Software Branch of Chinese Software Industry Association http://cosoft.org.cn/html/ev/index.php ChinaSoftware & Integrated Circuit Promotion Center http://www.csip.org.cn/index.jsp China Open Source Software Promotion Union http://www.oss.org.cn/en/ Sun IBM Google Intel LENOVO Travel expenses (in Euro) from European countries to Beijing Vancouver-Beijing, Single:283 Return:472 Los Angeles-Beijing, Single:274 Return:409 New York-Beijing, Single:314 Return:526 Chicago-Beijing, Single:498 Return:530 Sidney-Beijing, Single:413 Return:535 Frankfurt-Beijing, Single:336 Return:476 London-Beijing, Single:314 Return:584 Paris-Beijing, Single:287 Return:494 Vienna-Beijing Single:342 Return:504 Barcelona-Beijing single:351 Return:549 Note: the quotations above could be a reference only Fare of Beijing taxies Flag-fall price 10 Chinese Yuan (about 1 Euro) incl. 5 Kilometers + 2.00 Chinese Yuan (about 0.2 Euro) per further Kilometers Climate of Beijing The daytime temperature of Beijing in September and October is 25~30℃ and the temperature at night is 15~20℃. Annotations Other relevant information about Beijing may be found at the official website of Beijing Municipality http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/ For more information on arrangement of conference, visit the website of preparatory organization: http://www.OOoCon2007.cn zhangp 2007-01-31 -- Jesús Corrius http://www.corrius.org/bloc/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Podeu consultar els arxius d'aquesta llista o canviar la vostra subscripci� a http://www.softcatala.org/llistes/ ----------------------------------------------------------------
