Danish OpenOffice.org newsletter

Danish OpenOffice.org newsletter is out: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2009Marts.pdf

(Domestic) OpenOffice.org conference in Denmark

The organization OSL (http://www.osl.dk) is arranging this conference together with the Danish OpenOffice.org community.

The conference will be on April 30th. at University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.

We will try to cover the story with two tracks, Business and Technical.

Open Office - a real alternative
Conference in Odense 30/4-09:

Track 1: Business
9.00 - 10.00 Arrival, registration
10.00 - 10.05 Welcome v. Kurt Gammelgaard Nielsen, SDU (University of Southern Denmark)
10:05 - 10:45 Open Source in government - Barriers to implementation and use of Open Source in government v. Jens Kjellerup, IT manager, Århus Kommune (Municipality of Aarhus)
10.45 - 11.15 Business Case: - Implementation of OpenOffice in industrial v. Ørnbøl Bent Larsen, PKF-IT
11:15 - 11:25 Break
11:25 to 12:00 in 2500 even better users - Training of employees in connection with the switch to OpenOffice v. Jens Christian Damgaard, IT consultant Aarhus University Hospital Risskov
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 13.35 An alternative office - what is required? - Consideration to make before a switch to OpenOffice
v. Leif Lohdahl, language coordinator, OpenOffice.org, Denmark
13.35 - 14.10 Open Office in Gribskov Kommune (Municipality of Gribskov) - A pragmatic solution based on economy and practicality v. Michel van der Linden, IT manager, Gribskov Kommune
14.10 - 14.30 Break
14.30 - 15.05 Virtual desktop in Open Office - Experience with virtual desktops in a VDI environment v. Kurt Gammelgaard Nielsen, konst. IT Director at University of Southern Denmark
15.05 - 15.15 Break
15.15 - 15.50 Keynote: Open Office - a real alternative v. Kim Østrup, Vice President, IBM

Track 2: Technical
9.00 - 10.00 Arrival, registration
10.00 - 10.05 Welcome
10:05 - 10:45 Open Source in government - Barriers to implementation and use of Open Source in government v. Jens Kjellerup, IT manager Århus Kommune
10:45 - 11:20 Standards Project in KL (association of Local Government in Denmark) and KMD (KMD is owned by Kommune Holding A/S which in turn is owned by KL) - Results and prospects v. Rolf Sorensen, Director, KMD, and Peter Thrane, Senior, KL
11:20 - 11:25 Break
11.25 - 12.00 IBM Lotus Symphony - IBM's version of Open Office, Speakers - t.b.c. (Symfoni Software )
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 13.30 Writing Support in Open Office v. Speakers - t.b.c.
13.30 - 14.00 Migration from MS Office to Open Office in primary schools in Tønder v. Bo Ramsing, IT mentoring and Erik S. Kristensen, IT Adviser, Deputy & school, Tønder Municipality
14.00 - 14.05 Break
14.05 - 15.05 Open Office extensibility v. Jürgen Schmidt, lead developer, Sun Microsystems
15.05 - 15.15 Break
15.15 - 15.50 Keynote: Open Office - a real alternative v. Kim Ostrup, Vice President IBM

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