Beijing to host 2008 International OpenOffice.org Conference

Thanks to everybody, who followed my appeal to cast votes for hosting the 2008 International OpenOffice.org Conference in Beijing.
I am very happy to tell you now, that we really did it. Please review the result, it's a real landslide victory and another indicator for China's growing impact on the International FOSS community.

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Peter Cheng

Peter Cheng is a community strategist and open source evangelist, who is based in Beijing, China. In 2003, he initiated the Open Source University program to gather industry experts and help spread open source technology and culture to over 100 universities. In 2007, he organized the Open Source Camp in five Chinese cities, with the aim to enable the open source community to share and exchange ideas and to promote the technology in China. Peter currently runs TargetSource Tech, a company he founded to provide consulting services on enterprise open source software.