Slovakia wants to host OpenOffice.org developer conference 2008

OpenOffice.org developer conference brings OO.o people from around the world to discuss the future of the open source office suite. This year Slovakia (SKOSI) is also running for hosting this event. We already started the preparation in December 2007, which did receive a huge popularity among our small European country. Sun, Novell, New Media Group, and few other companies pledged for help in organization, also the Slovak open source community is getting involved from different projects.

We are also playing with the Idea of making a co-event during the OpenOffice.org conference, which will be something like a Open Source Week, organizing smaller one day events durring the week, one day can be for the government, another for education and we can finish it with Software Freedom Day 2008 which will happen 4th time in Slovakia.

Right now the core team is around 10 people and we also have around 20 volunteers.

Wish is luck to see such great event happen in eastern Europe, nothing similar was here ever, this can be the first time...

OpenOffice.org dismisses pro-OOXML report

OpenOffice.org has dismissed an analyst report from Burton Group which claims that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format is preferable to the OpenDocument Format.

zdnet.com

OpenDVD for education in Slovakia

opendvd version 1.1 contains open source software for Windows in Slovak and English language. Some of the applications are available with a Slovak book attached in PDF.

Office: OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, PDFcreator, Ghostscript
Draw: TuxPaint, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender3D, Gimp
Code: Nvu, Lazarus/Free Pascal, Netbeans
Edu: Stelarium, Celestia, TuxTyping
Edu-K12: Gcompris
Math: Maxima, Octave, Gnuplot, Scilab
Geography: GrassGIS

dvd is available under sk.openacedemy.eu project

for version 1.2 we are preparing a offline version of slovak wikipedia portal

Lotus Notes 8 with OpenOffice?

Obviously IBM push harder in supporting ODF and Open Source technology.

More at vnunet.com

IBM is preparing to ship a new version of its Lotus Notes and Domino applications on 17 August, according to a company website that was published on Tuesday.

Notes will also incorporate additional productivity applications such as OpenOffice.