‘Cento Milioni’ Conference – day 3
November 6th, 2009
Another wet morning in Orvieto. My conference day started with the Art Project’s proposals for a new logo for OpenOffice.org. These are the results of just a few weeks’ visual brainstorming, and showed a wide range of ideas from the evolutionary to the revolutionary. I must say I’m not a fan of real-life seagulls – rats with wings…
A chat with Olivier about what we can learn from Brazil, home now to three ‘Cento Milioni’ corporate desktop deployments, then a quick sesson with Italo to decide how we will close the OOoCon, and just time to knock together a few slides in Impress.
Back to the Conference, where the Marketing Project had grabbed a vacant conference slot to continue the discussions about plans for next year. These discussions need to be continued on the mailing lists with colleagues who couldn’t attend the Cento Milioni Conference, so we can get budget proposals in front of the Community Council for next year. Looks like I have some transcription to do when I get home.
First proper lunch of the OOoCon (i.e. > pizza) then back to join in a Community Council Q&A sesssion. This was not as lively as in some past Conferences, but it was interesting that several of the issues raised today, had also been raised by the candidates for the vacant seats in our conversation on Thursday evening.
Then on to the stage to bring the Conference to a close with the expected lively contribution from Italo. Italo handed the “poor man’s torch” to Peter for next year’s OOoCon in Budapest – I’ll try and link to photos of this on the web…
And that was it. The three days of conference have flown by, and our amazing interntional community becomes virtual for another ten months. Mille Grazie Orvieto!