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20060919 Tuesday September 19, 2006

OpenOffice.org Conference presentation videos available

The OpenOffice.org community hosts a OpenOffice.org yearly conference. This year it was in Lyon, France from September 11-13. Videos of the presentations are now available - and can be viewed within your browser or downloaded (in of course the open standard Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis formats).

I would particularly recommend the following presentations for those interested in accessibility and Open Document Format (alas none of them are close captioned):

  1. Panel session with Eduardo Gutentag, Bob Sutor, Rob Weir, Charles-H. Schulz: "OpenDocument, Open Revolution" in video in your browser or downlodable video or downloadable audio

  2. Robert Weir: "A Technical Comparison> ISO/IEC 26300 vs. Microsoft Office Open XML (Ecma International TC45 OOXML WD 1.3)" in video in your browser or downlodable video or downloadable audio

  3. Michael Bemmer: "OpenOffice.org 2.x and beyond" in video in your browser or downlodable video or downloadable audio

  4. Malte Timmermann: "OpenOffice.org and ODF Accessibility" in video in your browser or downlodable video or downloadable audio

There are many other talks you might find interesting; things like using OpenOffice.org in high schools in Slovenia, the "re-computerisation of Cambodia" based on OpenOffice.org 2.0, Novell Corporation's migration to OpenOffice.org, and OpenOffice.org in Vienna City's Administration. The OpenOffice.org conference is not a high budget affair, and the videos don't have broadcast television production values. But the information is very educational, timely, and wonderfully available to all. (2006-09-19 13:31:34.0) Permalink

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