| OpenOffice confab selects Barcelona |
Mar. 10, 2007
Organizers of OpenOffice.org's annual conference, "OOoCon," have voted to stage this year's event in Barcelona, Spain, in September. Exact dates are expected to be announced soon. Barcelona won out with 297 votes over Dehradun, India (224), and Beijing, China (82).
More than 100 local companies based in the Barcelona area are currently working on free software services and products, an OpenOffice.org spokesperson said. In addition, OpenOffice.org members of the Catalan, Spanish, Basque, and Galician communities have worked in the past on translations of the open-source office suite.
"The Catalan Native Lang Project is one of the historic projects inside the OpenOffice.org Community. Although small and humble, it's been here since the very beginning of the OpenOffice.org project, much before the existence of the Native Lang Community," Barcelona bid leader Jesus Corrius said on the project website.
Last year's event was held in Lyon, France. Previous conferences have been held in Slovenia and Germany, and they have been noted for the quality of the conference sessions and the warmth of the social gatherings, according to OpenOffice.org member John McCreesh.
Go here for details on the conference, or visit this new OOoCON blog, set up by Corrius.
Those interested in attending can subscribe to the attendees' mailing list here by sending an empty message to this address.
You can download your own copy of the free office suite here.
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