| Ing. Brigitte Lutz & Ing. Patrick Amcha - City of Vienna / Municipal Department 14 - Automated Data Processing, Information and Communications Technology |
OpenOffice.org
will
be installed on 18.000 PC-Workstations of Vienna's City Administration.
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| Biographies: Brigitte Lutz is engineer for organization and project management and responsible for the introduction of Open Source Software on the PC Workstations of Vienna's City Administration Patrick Amcha is engineer for electronic systems and responsible for the product management of OpenOffice.org in the Municipal Department for IT |
What is new in OpenOffice.org 2.0 and StarOffice 8?
| Erwin Tenhumberg - Product Marketing Manager, Sun Microsystems |
The presentation will
mostly be a live demo of all the new
features in
OpenOffice.org 2.0 and StarOffice 8. The talk will given an overview
about what the new version of the office suite is capable of. Among the
features to be shown are:
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| Biography: Erwin Tenhumberg is the Product Marketing Manager for OpenOffice.org within the Client Systems Group at Sun Microsystems. Erwin started working for Sun as a Systems Engineer doing pre-sales for various software and desktop products including the StarOffice office suite and the Sun Ray ultra-thin client. Before Erwin joined Sun he worked for various companies doing Java consulting, software development, desktop application administration, and end user support. |
Commercial Solutions based on OpenOffice.org
| Erwin Tenhumberg - Product Marketing Manager, Sun Microsystems |
This session will give
an overview about solutions based on
OpenOffice.org. Topics that will be covered are:
Target audience: OpenOffice.org Users and Developers |
| Biography: Erwin Tenhumberg is the Product Marketing Manager for OpenOffice.org within the Client Systems Group at Sun Microsystems. Erwin started working for Sun as a Systems Engineer doing pre-sales for various software and desktop products including the StarOffice office suite and the Sun Ray ultra-thin client. Before Erwin joined Sun he worked for various companies doing Java consulting, software development, desktop application administration, and end user support. |
Organizational and psychological determinants of OpenOffice.org suite adoption
| Salvatore
Zappalà -
Professor, Università di Bologna - Facoltà di
Psicologia Maurizio Berti - Yacme Srl - Bologna |
| The adoption of new
technologies is a process related to
economical and
technical reasons as well as organizational and psycho-social factors. At the end of 2004, Ospedali Galliera of Genova (a large hospital, over 600 pc's and 1200 employees) decided to turn to Open Formats by replacing Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org. The migration is still in progress and is expected to get to completion within July 2005. The process needed proper migration planning, targeted communication (which was given remarkable importance so that everybody could share the reasons of that change), employees' training and post-migration support. In this scenario, organizational and individual variables, developed in the organizational psychology field, were measured through questionnaires, as it was expected that more positive attitudes towards OpenOffice.org could influence its acceptance and adoption. The dependent variables of the research were:
During the presentation:
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| Biographies: Salvatore
Zappalà, professor in the Faculty of Psychology of
Bologna
University, focuses on “Psychology of work and
organizations”. He currently teaches “Psychology
of
economical behaviour” in the“Psychology of
organizations
and services” graduation program. Maurizio Berti has been a partner of Yacme company of Bologna since September 2000. He's the supervisor of Yacme's OpenOffice.org division and is mainly involved in migration process management and training. |
Cambodia: Re-computerization of the Country based on localized OpenOffice.org 2.0
| Javier Solá - Coordinator – Khmer Software Initiative, Open Forum of Cambodia NGO |
| The Cambodian
Government’s Master Plan for the
Deployment of FOSS,
whose center-piece is Khmer language OpenOffice 2.0, plans full
migration of Government offices within the next year. All government
teacher training centers will only teach OpenOffice, following the
training materials and the certification program developed by the Open
Forum of Cambodia NGO. Fully translated and operational versions of OOo 2.0 (including help) are already being used for training of trainers in the training center of NiDA (National Information Communications Technology Development Authority), producing 30 new prepared teachers every week. For this program, Open Forum has already developed 45 hours worth of OOo 2.0 training materials (including teacher instructions), student handouts, exercises, evaluation materials and 20 hours of training-for-trainers materials. All this is supported by a certification program that will help standardization of computer education in the country The strength of the program is based on the fact that there are no proprietary computer tools translated to Khmer language, turning users into demanders of local-language software, and showing that language is strongest added value to FOSS adoption. The strategy is to distribute first OpenOffice (and other localized FOSS applications) on Windows, in order to enlist the support of computer vendors and the training industry (not trying to make them change to Linux immediately), and then change to KDE on Windows and then on Linux, a small change for users that will already be spending 95% of their computer work time working on FOSS Khmer language applications. Thanks to OpenOffice 2.0 Cambodia is on the way of becoming the first country in the world in which s FOSS productivity suite will be more used than proprietary software. Target audience: Marketing - localisers |
| Biography: Javier
Solá is the coordinator of the Khmer OS Initiative, a
NGO-based
project aimed at producing free software in Khmer language. He is also
directing a project to develop an "Open Source Localization Toolkit"
addressed to small economies that wish to start localization projects.
He participates in some specific Open Source projects that attempt to
facilitate localization processes. His interest on Open Source derives
from the believe that it can be used to reduce the digital divide
through localization. He is interested on finding working strategies
for wide distribution of Open Source software in poor countries. He is
the author of the localization documentation for OpenOffice 2.0 |
Introduction
to OpenOffice.org macro development
| Ian Craig Laurenson |
| An overview of
OpenOffice.org's underlying object model,
using
xray.xray to find the properties and methods of objects and how to
interpret the documentation in the Development Guide for writing macros
in BASIC. Some suggested conventions in coding and distributing the
code. Brief look at coding in other languages such as Python. Some code
snippets, and some of Iannz macros that solve particular problems.
Finishing with participants' problem solving session. Target audience: Competent OpenOffice.org users who would like to be extend their skill set into writing macros for OpenOffice.org. |
| Biography: Ian is part of
the OpenOffice.org community, currently
writing macros and documentation. In the past, amongst other things, he
has been in charge of computing at two tertiary technical institutes
and lectured on several short-term contracts at a university in New
Zealand, and been computer manager of a research organisation for a
number of years. |
Imagining
An OpenOffice.org Foundation
| Louis Suarez-Potts - Community Manager, OpenOffice.org/CollabNet |
| This talk examines the
pros and cons of an OpenOffice.org
Foundation.
That is, one that would hold not just funds for marketing and
development but the source's IP. There has long been
discussion
on the
issue, but for various usually good reasons little action, unless
strategic inaction counts. I briefly discuss the history of
that
inaction, the various calls for a foundation and their usually tacit
rebutalls. I then examine the current situation and how an
OpenOffice.org might look and work, what model it should follow and how
it should be set up. |
| Biography: Louis
Suarez-Potts has been the community manager of
OpenOffice.org since close to its beginning. He is also the
chari
of
the Community Council and the lead of several projects on
OpenOffice.org. He lives in Toronto. |
