I blogged at the start of July that we’d be using OCS software to organise this year’s OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon 2009). Well, by my calendar, OOoCon is now less than five weeks’ away, and I feel as if I’ve been working on nothing else for the past three months (except put our house on the market and a few other small things like that . As a result this blog is feeling very neglected

Now, at last, the Conference Programme is ready; Registration has opened; and my OOoCon ‘to-do’ list is shrinking to a last few items. I can now start looking forward to the actual Conference and to my trip to Orvieto (including my first experience of flying RyanAir).

The one thing that strikes me about this year’s programme is the richness of the OpenOffice.org ecosystem. Following on from the Renaissance project controversies, we’ve got a strong User Experience (UX) theme running. No only have we got the Renaissance team explaining their work, but we’ll also have people from IBM and RedFlag explaining how they addressed the same issues and came up with very different answers for Lotus Symphony and RedOffice respectively.

Having missed the Beijing Conference last year, I’m looking forward to meeting up again with all my old friends and no doubt making some new ones. OK, we have mailing lists, email, IRC, we can follow each others’ posts on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter … but nothing beats a good conversation over dinner and drinks late into the night…

If you’re an OpenOffice.org enthusiast and you’ve never been to an OOoCon – why not give this one a try?

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