OOoCon 2006 announced

All,

You are invited to one of the most important open source conference  
of the year: OOoCon 2006. To be held in Lyon, France, from 11-13  
September, the conference will surely be the most enjoyable!

This, our fourth conference, celebrates a year of triumphs.  
Governments, led by France, have adopted OpenOffice.org, replacing  
the proprietary Microsoft Office. Corporations such as Novell have  
switched entirely; and we have tracked over 67.5 million downloads to  
date. All want a suite that uses an open standard for the file  
format, that is flexible, that is easy to learn, and that is free.

And the technology is getting better. With OpenOffice.org, developers  
can create extensions that add features and functionality. They can  
localize it for new languages faster than before. At the moment, we  
count over 75 languages, most supported. And users can install  
OpenOffice.org on both PPC and Intel Macs.

All this has made OpenOffice.org, both the project and product, one  
of the most important forces in software history. Come to the  
conference to learn what governments, businesses, and developers are  
planning for the future. Come to hear keynotes by chief  
representatives of Novell, IBM, Sun, Google, and Ars Aperta speak on  
OpenOffice.org and its democratic file format, the OpenDocument  
Format. Come to see the new technologies, services, and information  
being exhibited by our sponsors, including Insa, CUsoon, IBM, Sun,  
Intel, NeoOffice, GrandLyon, Ville de Lyon, O3 Spaces, Google, and SCAI.

Or just come for the fun. OOoCon is known for its conviviality and  
for the interesting people it brings together.  There is no other  
event like it.  We hope to see you there!



-The OpenOffice.org Team



About OpenOffice.org

The OpenOffice.org Community is an international team of volunteer and
sponsored contributors who develop, support, and promote the leading
open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org®.

OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office
Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) as well as  
legacy industry
file formats and is available on major computing platforms in over 65
languages. OpenOffice.org is provided under the GNU Lesser General
Public Licence (LGPL).

The OpenOffice.org Community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a
number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founding sponsor  
and
primary contributor.


Links

The OpenOffice.org Community can be found at http://www.openoffice.org
The OpenOffice.org office productivity suite may be downloaded free of
charge from http://download.openoffice.org
Further information about the suite may be found at
http://www.openoffice.org/product

Press Contacts

John McCreesh (UTC +01h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead
jpmcc@openoffice.org
+44 (0)7 810 278 540

Cristian Driga (UTC +0200)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead
cdriga@openoffice.org
+40 7887 000 60

Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00)
OpenOffice.org Community Manager
louis@openoffice.org
+1 (416) 625 3843

Worldwide Marketing Contacts

http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html