Despite being down in England today, I managed to get the Call for Papers page live today on the OpenOffice.org website. There’s also the usual announcement on the home page and a little piece on the news page.

The OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon 2008) site is now also online in outline. It will be expanded considerably over the next six months or so – and will get its own OOoCon logo real soon now! This is really going to be an OOoCon to remember.

Being on the move, once again the little eee PC proved its worth, alongside the 3com dongle for mobile internet access. There were a couple of curiosities – I had to kill my ssh session after every cvs commit to the website and restart before I could commit again (anyone seen anything similar?). Also my email to the announce mailing list has failed to appear – however I suspect a human failure among the moderators rather than a technical issue

The dongle does have technical limits – it’s completely useless on a moving train for example. It was a relief to get on this train with wifi from York to Edinburgh, and be able to blog – I can just about tolerate Frozen Bubble from Manchester to York, but after changing trains I was really feeling in need of something more mentally stimulating.

On the train, I had some problems getting the on-board WiFi to work (I suspect an overloaded onboard proxy server as the root cause). Again, the National Express helpdesk was wonderful. I expected the usual “oh we don’t support Linux” but instead found Dave, who was delighted to find someone using Linux and wanted to know all about the eee. He also solved the problem.

Maybe we need a special day when all the Linux lovers lying low in Microsoft enclaves are encouraged to come out of the closet (maybe the wiring closet ) and declare their genuine orientation. Or maybe we already have such a day?

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