| Lyon chosen as site for OOoCon 2006 |
Mar. 08, 2006
OpenOffice.org members last week selected Lyon, France, as the location of the next OpenOffice.org Conference, or OOoCon. In previous years, OOoCon has been held in Koper, Slovenia (2005), Berlin, Germany (2004), and Hamburg, Germany (2003). This year's conference is tentatively scheduled for mid-September.
"The conference is an important event; it allows developers and other contributors to meet each other, business and government representatives to learn about OpenOffice.org, and the community to exchange ideas. It's also a lot of fun," an OpenOffice.org spokesman said.
A call for papers will be going out shortly, he added. DesktopLinux.com will have details at that time.
In another news note, OpenOffice.org is now revving up its first Developer Contest. The event started Feb. 1. The next deadline for entries is March 30, and there will be deadlines at the end of each subsequent month. The goal of the contest is to generate more developer documentation -- such as articles on porting, add-on and filter development, bug fixing, and so on.
"Whatever is of interest to you and helpful to other developers [is needed]," the team spokesman said.
Each month, a committee will pick the best article from the pool of submitted articles. Articles that did not initially win will stay in the pool, so that they can still be eligible to win later, the team added.
Go here for a listing of contest rules.
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