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2010 OpenOffice.org Conference in Budapest, Hungary

This year’s OOoCon annual conference has just been announced and it will be held in Budapest, Hungary between Aug 31st and Sept 3rd. This year the OpenOffice.org project celebrates it’s 10th year since it started revolutionizing the desktops world and especially the Linux desktop adoption world-wide.
Below is the original announcement from the OpenOffice.org project.
The OpenOffice.org […]

Written by cdriga on February 20th, 2010 with no comments.
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Come to Italy for the OpenOffice.org Annnual Conference

Registration officially opened for the OpenOffice.org annual
international conference 2009 (OOoCon), to be held in the beautiful and
historic city of Orvieto, Umbria, Italy. Following pre-conference meetings
on Nov.3rd, the main OOoCon events run from Nov 4th-6th. The Conference
will include presentations not only from OpenOffice.org individual
contributors, but also from the main commercial players in the
OpenOffice.org / OpenDocument Format […]

Written by cdriga on October 6th, 2009 with no comments.
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OpenOffice.org Annual Conference Call for Papers (OOoCon 2009)

The OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon 2009) will be held in
Orvieto, Italy from November 3, 2009 - November 6, 2009.
The OpenOffice.org Community invites potential speakers to submit
proposals for papers for OOoCon 2009. Whether you are a seasoned
presenter, or have never stood up in public before, if you have something
interesting to share about OpenOffice.org - we want […]

Written by cdriga on July 6th, 2009 with no comments.
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Manager’s choice: spend some time or spend money

All the software packages designed to do a certain task or job have differences in usage and looks. Buttons may be differently placed on the screen, workflow in some cases may differ from software to software, user interface will surely differ. But if they are mature applications they will certainly do the job they are […]

Written by cdriga on July 1st, 2009 with no comments.
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The Romanian government is about to spend millions of euro on proprietary software

In May 2009 the Romanian Government has announced its renewal of a framework software licence with Microsoft. The licence deal is worth 100 million euro for government agencies licenses for use between 2010 and 2012 as well as 58 million euro as the final payment for the 2004 - 2009 framework licence agreement.
They are also […]

Written by cdriga on June 30th, 2009 with no comments.
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eLiberatica Conference - Bucharest, Romania 2008

eLiberatica second edition,
30th - 31st May 2008 (Friday-Saturday), World Trade Center, Romania
Following the huge public success the first edition of eLiberatica gained in 2007, the second edition will continue in the same tradition: to gather community and business leaders around the world to talk about the hottest Open and Free Technologies topics.
eLiberatica has its unique […]

Written by cdriga on April 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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2008 OpenOffice.org Annual Conference - voting opens

The OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon) is the annual meeting of the
international OpenOffice.org Community. It is the premier event for anyone
interested in or working with OpenOffice.org. OOoCon is where
representatives of all the community projects meet to celebrate and learn
from the achievements of the past twelve months, and discuss how to meet
the challenges of the next twelve.
This year […]

Written by cdriga on February 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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Firefox took large share off Internet Explorer in 2007

ITwire brings up the latest figures from French based Internet traffic analyst XiTiMonitor showing that during 2007 Internet Explorer has lost a significant market share in favor of the open source browser Mozilla Firefox. This is great news and it completes the image of an Open Source 2007 year.
You can read the whole article which […]

Written by cdriga on January 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog

The last two weeks have seen two new communication channels opened by OpenOffice.org the project. First of them is the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project’s Blog, which aims at sharing news and stories related to OpenOffice.org software and community promotion, and the second one is the OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet, the page that aggregates posts from the […]

Written by cdriga on January 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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Blog-post of the week: Thank you OpenOffice.org

Two days ago I discovered an inspiring blog posting on OpenOffice.org which deserves mentioning as it seems to me genuinely true and sincere. This blog (The Kratzers) has a post dated January 27th 2008 titled: Thank You, OpenOffice.
The author - a satisfied Microsoft Office user - expresses his pleasant surprise about OpenOffice.org.
He outlines the fact […]

Written by cdriga on January 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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