The conference team have been inundated with proposals for papers for this year’s OpenOffice.org Conference. Looking through the voting results, it was no surprise that the most votes went to a paper on OpenOffice.org futures. IT folks are forever looking to the next version for some killer feature (or more prosaically, to fix some annoying bug).

With my marketing hat on, I am of course keen to know (and shape) what’s in the pipeline. However, there are very few potential users who are waiting for some new feature before they use OpenOffice.org. They are outnumbered by several orders of magnitude by people waiting for software in their native language.

So, I was delighted to receive an email today from my colleagues in Bangladesh. They’re holding the second of their localisation bootcamps tomorrow, this time at BRAC University. I was impressed by the enthusiasm of the team I met there in March. I’m looking forward to the Bangla translation making massive progress tomorrow. As the 6th most spoken language in the world, Bangla speakers deserve their own OpenOffice.org!

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