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 Weir is talking about interoperability (much better than I’ve been doing) an d the room is packed. Eduardo Gutentag was also here for the conference, and other people from the OASIS; RedFlag and Sursen people are present in the room as well.

Now that my narcissic part is done, I’d like to say some words about the great announcements from OpenOffice.org this year.

Louis’ s keynote was extremely clear, and this is something I’ve been discussing in my blog for quite some time. OpenOffice.org goes social. Or more exactly, we’re going web 2.0. Soon we’ll have a full replacement for MS Outlook (based on Thunderbird and Lightning). We want Openoffice.org to become a fully collaborative suite, and a web ready application. All this will happen progressively of course, but the big thing for 2007 and 2008 will be extensions, extensions, extensions, and extensions.

In any way, the future looks exciting. And as a reminder, ODF is the only ISO standard for office file formats.

Enjoy your day!