On 9/22/07, Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't 100% about openSUSE... but thoguht it was interesting > enough to share with the group here. I just spent a very busy and > interesting weel in Barcelona at OOoCon 2007. Novell/SUSE was quite > visible... and the only Linux vendor in sight. Maybe that is due to > the massive amount of work that Novell contributes to the OOo project. > There were loads on openSUSE10.2 DVDs floating around, and I know of > a few people who are now very interested in openSUSE as a result of > tinkering with the DVD that was handed out. > > Something I observed... A few of the presenters (outside of the Novell > guys) were running some variation of SUSE. All the SUSE guys had > (generally) no problems at all when they connected their laptops to > the projectors. It just worked. The guys who were running Ubuntu had > resolution issues... switching to the projector was... very > problematic for them. It was nice to see SUSE just working.. and a > few people noticed and started asking a lot of questions (to me > anyway) > > Hubert Fuguiere's presentation on OfficeOpenXML and Novell's work on > it with OOo was quite interesting as was Noel Power's presentation on > VBA and OOo. The video of the presentations aren't all up just yet, > but once the KiberPiper guys get home and process the hours of video > they made it will be here: > http://ooocon-kiberpipa.kiberpipa.org/media/index-2007.html > > Probably the most fascinating (and also the hardest to understand) was > the stuff from Red Office 2000 (the Chinese presenters). If you get a > chance, take a look at what they did to make the Chinese version of > OOo. They totally reworked the UI, and the first question that was > asked was... "Is there an English version?" I wonder of some of the > concepts they came up with could be applied to Linux in general? > > Anyway... it was an amazing conference... and it was nice to see > openSUSE so visible.
Great to hear! Thanks for sharing :-) Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros http://francis.giannaros.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
