All,
LinuxWorld Expo Boston ended yesterday night and it was from our
perspective quite a success. We owe that to the very generous
contributions of the community, in particular, David Byron, of
PlataSoft, who, along with Allen Pulsifer of OpenOfficeTechnology,
staffed the booth and gave brilliant spiels of what OpenOffice.org
is, both as a project and product. Allen further coordinated with
Bernhard Dippold to create a smashing (and by far most beautiful)
banner for OpenOffice.org, all in a matter of days. My personal
thanks to Allen and Bernhard and to the entire Art project, who came
through with great ideas, lovely art, and calm competence--and all at
the last minute. Crispian Thorne, up to Boston to sightsee, donated
1,000 brochures. These were invaluable. Sadly, though Kyle Korleski
arranged to send over an equal number of cds, they never arrived;
regrettable mixups. Jacqueline Rahemipour sent over OOo pins from
Germany, which we handed out to the deserving. Several books
illustrating how to use OOo, as well as one on the ODF, were
displayed; all these added to the completeness of the booth and made
it easily the best and one of the most popular .org booths there.
Stefan Taxhet, of Sun, who flew in from Germany to help out, was at
the booth much of the time, answering detailed questions on OOo;
thanks. We didn't expect to encounter many (or any) developers, but
we were a little pleasantly surprised: Liaisons were made between us
and the many who went there, and in the next few weeks, as we follow
up on these and other contacts, I expect to see some positive
results. (I will send a more complete report to the appropriate list
later.)
I'd also like to thank Leon Shiman, of X.org. He arranged the full-
day Government Day event, at which I spoke, and was a driver for
making sure that OpenOffice.org was fully represented at the conference.
And, I'd like to thank Jim McQuillan and the Linux Terminal Server
Project (LTSP) for their generosity: we used one of their terminals
to show OOo on Linux; they were located way at the other end of the
aisle, and this geographical difference impressed people. Intel lent
us three boxes and flatscreened monitors, Sun one huge LCD monitor
(which we used with the LTSP set up) and two other smaller
flatscreened monitors. My thanks to them and my hope that we can
work together like this again.
Finally, Team OpenOffice.org made this event possible by (I hope)
covering much of the costs of the event; my thanks. Others, such as
Fantini Bakery, James of 8daysaweek, and Ann Pace, contributed much-
needed cash; my enduring thanks: this event was expensive. And of
course my thanks to everyone else I have not named but who helped
out! LinuxWorld gave us the boothspace (thanks!) but everything else
came from the community: you.
Thanks
Louis
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Louis Suarez-Potts
Community Manager
OpenOffice.org
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