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September 2007

Good Bye, Barcelona!

So the conference is now in its last day and slowly drawing to an end. More interesting conferences to attend. I’m now at a conference showing the famous « Symphony » from IBM. It has a really nice interface is based on OpenOffice.org but works through the Eclipse framework (Eclipse …

Live from the OOoCON in Barcelona

Today was the first « real » day of the conference. I’m just done with my own presentation whose slides are available on the conference web site. Live coverage is done by Kiberpipa, a great team from Slovenia who’s been working with us ever since three years. Kudos to them! Now Rob …

Native-Language Party in Barcelona

This year I feel we’re going to have a great OpenOffice.org Conference, and that’s not just because I love Barcelona. I would like to invite the conference attendants to what has now become a tradition in the OOoCons, the Native-Language Party. Those parties are interesting opportunities to socialize and meet …

On Merging

One much advertised part of the answer made by the Afnorwas the proposal to merge OOXML and ODF. I always thought that it was a great idea, because it sounds to me as a realistic way out to settle the dual standards conundrum. This concrete solution is also workable in …