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Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 07:00 AM EST
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The Southern California Linux Expo 2006 is holding a conference, with a lead-in workshop, on ODF and document accessibility standards in state and local government. February 11-12. The ODF workshop is on the 10th. The conference is on February 11-12. It has just been confirmed that Peter Quinn will be a keynote speaker for the ODF workshop. *Now* you want to go, huh? The press release says he will "discuss the reasoning behind the decision to set ODF as a statewide standard. He will provide an overview of his experience during this transition, including the technical and political pitfalls he encountered." Actually, if you look at all the other speakers and their topics for the SCALE conference, you'll probably want to be there all three days.
Some details from the press release on what will be covered at the ODF conference, which will also have Gary Edwards and David Eisenberg as speakers: Topics to be covered at this workshop include:
* Benefits of open standards versus their proprietary counterparts.
* Technical merits of OpenDocument and XML-based file formats.
* Avoiding vendor lock-in: The importance of choice in software for gorvenment organizations and their constituents.
* The security benefits of heterogeneous software environments.
If you've yet to try GNU/Linux or are new, note that both days of the following conference there will be what they call a "Beginners Tutorial Track," where you can learn how to do things in this operating system, like email, spam filtering, VoIP with Asterisk, secure a network, and use Wine, which makes it possible to use Windows applications from within Linux, for those who aren't yet totally turned off by Windows vulnerabilities and wish to keep a Windows application or have to at work. Also, there is a tutorial on Eclipse on Linux and one on Open Source business applications. For those who aren't new to this, Hans Reiser speaks on the Reiser4 Filesystem, Steve Friedl on "So you want to be a consultant," Andrew Farley on "Massive storage at low cost coming to a server near you," John Terpstra on the intriguiging topic, "Open Source and the Kid Next Door," Dan Kegel on overcoming desktop obstacles, Jono Bacon on "Building the next generation Linux desktop", and Ted Haeger on "Desktop Innovation on Linux at Novell." Chris Dibona of Google will speak too, as well as Matt Asay on "The next decade of software," exhibitions of KDE4 and the Plasma desktop by Aaron Seigo, David Mandelstam on "Open Source at the PBX," and Andi Gutmans on PHP. Of course, they're on program tracks so you can't go to all of them, but I would if I could. There isn't one thing listed that doesn't interest me, including the Beginner's Track subjects.
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| Authored by: FrnchFrgg on Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 07:07 AM EST |
And I have one : To my mind, Wine isn't used to lauch Linux from Windows, but to
use Win apps into Linux...
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| Authored by: Wol on Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 07:09 AM EST |
And why can't you go, PJ?
Just don't announce who you are, go and enjoy yourself!
Cheers,
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| Authored by: dcarrera on Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 08:29 AM EST |
Hey,
This is advert for the OD Fellowship :) We're a "partner" in the
conference (http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/odf/) and we'll have some neat things
to show. One of them I can't speak about :) but another is a CD full of
OpenDocument-aware software. Among other things it'll have:
* A PREVIEW release of KOffice 1.5. The first version that uses OpenDocument as
its native format. The feature freeze was last *Sunday* and the KOffice guys has
been working hard to prepare a Klik package to showcase at the conf. Klik is
cool: http://dot.kde.org/1126867980/
* Portable OpenOffice: A version of OpenOffice for Windows that runs directly
from a USB key or portable media.
* Templates in OpenDocument format.
* David Eisenberg's book "OpenDocument Essentials".
See here for a preview:
http://opendocumentfellowship.org/cd/START_HERE.html
If you want to get a copy of "OpenDocument Essentials" signed by the
author, this is your chance :)
Of course, the best part will be the keynotes from Peter Quinn, Gary Edwards and
David Eisenberg. I can't wait to be at the conference. It'll be fantastic.
Gary and David will be at the ODF booth all three days. Including them and
myself, there will be around 7 people from ODF.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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| Authored by: raynfala on Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 09:27 AM EST |
Even money says that Mr. Quinn gets a standing ovation prior to the start of his
speech.
--Raynfala
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| Authored by: jasonrkr on Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 02:38 PM EST |
We at SCALE appreciate the efforts of Groklaw and its readers in
providing relevant, accurate, and timely information on issues involving the
Open Source Community. In an effort to show our appreciation, we would like to
offer a 35% discount on admission for all Groklaw readers interested in
attending this year's event.
Please register HERE using the
Promotional Code "GROK".
If you have any questions regarding SCALE please
feel free to contact me. I can be reached at
jason@socallinuxexpo.org.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 04:20 PM EST |
I'm going to be doing the spam talk on the Beginner's
track, and I look forward to giving it, and hope you'll
attend. This is promising to be a very good conference.
--Russell (I don't have an account, so sorry) [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 20 2006 @ 08:56 AM EST |
this is great I hope he does tours and just lets everyone
know about open document.
this is the best thing that could happen - educate the
users and have the users demand open document. [ Reply to This | # ]
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