LWN.net: OpenOffice.org Conference 2003

“Meet the community, users, and OpenOffice.org sponsors at the
first OpenOffice.org Conference. The conference will convene
immediately after CeBIT, which ends on 19th of March. Hamburg is
only 100 miles (160 Kilometers) from Hannover. The conference will
attract some high-profile keynote speakers from the developer
community, European politics, the open-source movement, and our
main sponsor, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Confirmed keynote speakers are
amongst others the Open Source Advocate Bruce Perens as well as the
VP of Engineering of the Desktop Solutions Group at Sun
Microsystems Curtis Sasaki. The conference will include some
limited exhibition space.

“Miguel de Icaza and Bruce Perens both say that OpenOffice.org
is THE most important Open Source project because people can try it
without switching from Windows and if they do they’ll discover that
Open Source can work for them. They no longer have to pay big bucks
for office productivity…”

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