(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

OOoCon 2008 - where should we hold it ?

Last year we gathered in Barcelona, Spain. Where should the conference be held this year ? Six proposals is up for a vote:

• Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Beijing, China
• Bratislava, Slovakia
• Budapest, Hungary
• Dundalk, Ireland
• Orvieto, Italy

Read more about the conference and the election here: http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/cfl/

I think China sounds very nice, but i'm afraid that I wouldn't be able to find sponsors for the travel. My vote will probably fall at one of the European locations. Sorry China, I would love to visit you in Beijing.

OpenSourceDays

For the last ten years, the LinuxForum has been the annual event for all Danish (and other Scandinavian) people with interest in open source. The conference has been growing over the years and the team behind it has decided to change the name and scope. This is what they explain:

The highly successful open source conference "Linuxforum", which has already celebrated it's 10th anniversary is now changing name to Open Source Days in order to better reflect that Linux by no means is the only topic of the conference.
The name Open Source Days indicates that during the confererence a vast selection of technical and business open source topics will be covered by the best selection of speakers in a mix between Danish and English.
Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris and other open operating systems - and all of the applications running of these operating systems will be in focus during Open Source Days 2008.

Read more here: http://www.opensourcedays.org/2008/

The conference will be held October 3th. and 4th. http://www.opensourcedays.org/2008/about/

To better support the continuously growing event, the coordinators has decided to establish a foundation. The formal establishment meeting will take place on January 8th. at Niels Bohr Institutet in Copenhagen. Read more about the meeting here: http://friends.opensourcedays.org/

Show up and join.