Sun Documentation Team at OpenOffice.org Conference in Lyon
The OpenOffice.org Conference in Lyon took place from Sep 11 to Sep 13, 2006. (See the Web page at http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/ )
The StarOffice Team from Sun in Hamburg was very present, with about 24 developers, wearing t-shirts with the logo "Sun OpenOffice.org Team". Frank and Uwe from the Technical Documentation team gave a short presentation with the title "OOo documentation - Online help and Beyond".
All presentations were recorded and streamed live to the Internet, by http://ooocon-arnes.kiberpipa.org/articles/media.html
Unfortunately, we had only less than 40 minutes for our presentation. 45 minutes were scheduled, but they always start later, and at the end the buses already waited with running engines to take us all to the townhall meeting with the mayor of Lyon. So we had no time for Q&A following the presentation, but we asked and answered questions all the remaining time of the three days.
We tried as much as possible to be nice ambassadors of documentation.openoffice.org.
Presentations were a good mix of technical lessons and marketing overviews. But most important in my opinion was the chance to meet all those community members and to speak to the persons of which you only had read the names before.
My personal highlights:
- so many nice people at the conference to talk with, so many new ideas
- the townhall evening party!
- very scenic city of Lyon, this city is really worth a holiday trip http://www.lyon.fr/vdl/sections/en/tourisme/copy_of_patrimoine/
My personal warning:
- beware of the Lyon food specialties unless you are really brave
Florian Effenberger of the german marketing project made the following photo of Frank (left) and Uwe (right)
Photo of Frank and Uwe at OOo Conf
See more photos and links to even more photos in Erwin's recommended Blog.
So at the end we are sure that this conference was not a one time event. It was much more than that: a highlight to celebrate the ongoing collaboration of Sun (and the other companies that attended the conference) with the OpenOffice.org community. This collaboration is already working very good, and will get better every day.
The StarOffice Team from Sun in Hamburg was very present, with about 24 developers, wearing t-shirts with the logo "Sun OpenOffice.org Team". Frank and Uwe from the Technical Documentation team gave a short presentation with the title "OOo documentation - Online help and Beyond".
All presentations were recorded and streamed live to the Internet, by http://ooocon-arnes.kiberpipa.org/articles/media.html
Unfortunately, we had only less than 40 minutes for our presentation. 45 minutes were scheduled, but they always start later, and at the end the buses already waited with running engines to take us all to the townhall meeting with the mayor of Lyon. So we had no time for Q&A following the presentation, but we asked and answered questions all the remaining time of the three days.
We tried as much as possible to be nice ambassadors of documentation.openoffice.org.
Presentations were a good mix of technical lessons and marketing overviews. But most important in my opinion was the chance to meet all those community members and to speak to the persons of which you only had read the names before.
My personal highlights:
- so many nice people at the conference to talk with, so many new ideas
- the townhall evening party!
- very scenic city of Lyon, this city is really worth a holiday trip http://www.lyon.fr/vdl/sections/en/tourisme/copy_of_patrimoine/
My personal warning:
- beware of the Lyon food specialties unless you are really brave
Florian Effenberger of the german marketing project made the following photo of Frank (left) and Uwe (right)
Photo of Frank and Uwe at OOo Conf
See more photos and links to even more photos in Erwin's recommended Blog.
So at the end we are sure that this conference was not a one time event. It was much more than that: a highlight to celebrate the ongoing collaboration of Sun (and the other companies that attended the conference) with the OpenOffice.org community. This collaboration is already working very good, and will get better every day.