Beijing eyes International OpenOffice.org Conference

I am glad to tell you that the Beijing OpenOffice.org community will be looking to bring the 2008 International OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2008) to the Chinese city.

This is really a logical step because in 2007, REDFLAG 2000 and IBM announced that its OOo engineering teams will be re-contributing their technologies to OpenOffice.org.

Besides these key drivers, the Beijing open source community has also gathered to support this great campaign, including:

• China OSS Promotion Union;


• Chang Feng Open Standards Software Alliance;


• Co-Create Software League;


• Beijing Linux User Group;


• Beijing OpenSolaris User Group;


• Huihoo-–The Open Enterprise Foundation; and


• LUPA (Leadership Of Open Source University Promotion Alliance).

Beijing representatives of Sun Microsystems, Red Hat and Ubuntu recently also pledged their commitment and support, in the event that Beijing is successful in winning the bid to host OOoCon 2008.

Last but not least, I'd like to ask the Asian OOo and open source community to support this great effort and vote for Beijing when polls start, probably at the beginning of February.

I have compiled some information at this page at the Beijing LUG wiki. However, the URL for casting votes isn't available yet. I will provide this information as soon as the procedure has started.

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Peter Junge

Peter Junge is a long-time user and fan of open source software (OSS), especially Linux. For over eight years now, he's been an OSS IT professional, filling different roles in the OpenOffice.org project. Peter currently lives in Beijing, China, where he pays his bills working as program manager and senior engineer for a local company that develops products based on OpenOffice.org. He is also an active member of the Beijing Linux User Group.