有关在北京举办OOo年会的介绍(英文)

Redflag 2000, representing the Beijing OpenOffice.org community, is pleased to propose Beijing as the first OpenOffice.org Conference outside of Europe.

Since Redflag 2000 and IBM officially joined OpenOffice.org in 2007, Beijing has become the second hot-spot for the development of OpenOffice.org and several derived products. The contributions to OOo from China are steadily growing. As the capital of China, Beijing will also be one of the main future markets for OpenOffice.org to significantly grow. Having this year's OOoCon in Beijing would provide a strong impulse to the OpenOffice.org community in East Asia and significantly strengthen OpenOffice.org's position in the East Asian office suite markets.

Beijing is a cosmopolitan city with a rich history. People coming to Beijing right after the Olympic games will experience a city that has re-invented itself. The infrastructure will be better than ever before, concrete spots have turned into flower beds, the city night life is amazing and, last but not least, the main historic sites have been renovated. The food in Beijing is among the best in the world. Several new subway lines will give easy and inexpensive access to discover this unique city.

Beijing is well positioned to host events of the size of OOoCon and above. Every year a huge number of conferences are held in Beijing, among them numerous FOSS and Open Standards events. Beijing Software Freedom Day 2007, for example, was considered to be one of the three best events worldwide.

Under the patronage of the main applicant Redflag 2000, the organizers will bring East and West, Community and Business together. OpenOffice.org's local corporate members; e.g. Sun Microsystems, IBM and Redflag 2000 will join with the Beijing FOSS community to host OOo contributors from all over the world to celebrate our globalized, free and open product OpenOffice.org.

To overcome Beijing's location long distance from Europe, the organizers will offer a travel sponsorship program for long term OOo contributors, accepted speakers and others with cases of hardship, enabling them to join the community in Beijing. These persons will also be offered a free hotel room.

Give OpenOffice.org the chance to experience the ancient and modern wonders of China. Vote for Beijing and let's jointly celebrate a great OOoCon 2008!

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Mandatory Information

Location (country, city, conference center/university)

Beijing, People's Republic of China

The Beijing Asia Hotel has a big conference hall for up to 550 attendees. Additionally, there are numerous mid-size and small meeting rooms, that can be used according to the requirements of the OOoCon agenda, see: http://www.bj-asiahotel.com.cn/meetingA_en-us.php http://www.bj-asiahotel.com.cn/meetingB_en-us.php. The most important reason to select Beijing Asia Hotel is its perfect location on the east side of the Beijing city center. The hotel is situated in an area know for a vast number of good restaurants. The most famous spots of Beijing night life, like Sanlitun Bar Street are near and easy to reach. The Beijing Asia Hotel is also located close to a subway station. Most tourist spots can be reached easily and inexpensive.

Proposed Date(s)

Main conference, October 15 – 17, 2008

Council, ESC, NLC, MarCons, October 14

In case of enough interest, we also like to offer a thread of presentations about FOSS in China, apart from OOo, on October 14

Free Tourist trip (Great Wall, Forbidden city etc.) October 18 and 19

Team Lead (main contact person)

Chen Hongjuan (chenhongjuan (at) redflag2000.cn)

Peter Junge (peterjunge (at) redflag2000.cn)

Team Members

Chen Hongjuan, Redflag 2000
Peter Junge, Redflag 2000
Xing Li, IBM
Don Harbison, IBM
Emily Chen, Sun – Beijing OpenSolaris User Group
Joey Gao, Sun – Beijing OpenSolaris User Group
Song Kewei, China OSS Promotion Union
Pockey Lam, Beijing Linux User Group
Fred Muller, Beijing Linux User Group
Song Jingjing, ChangFeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance
Yang Chunyan, Co-Create Software League
Cheng Yong, Huihoo.com
Shao Wei, Leadership Of Open Source University Promotion Alliance

Local events that are taking place in parallel (or right before/after)

Beijing Linux User Group monthly meeting (We hope to see a ton of OOoCon attendees from there) Date: Oct. 14th

The 2008 Beijing International Marathon Date: Oct. 19th

The 1st World Mind Sports Games Dates: Oct. 3rd – Oct. 18th

2008 FORMULA 1™ Sinopec Chinese Grand Prix (Shanghai) Date: Oct. 19th

Special visa or entry requirements, e.g. vaccinations

Applying for a Visa is mandatory. Regulations vary from country to country. Please contact the Chinese Embassy of Consulate responsible from your country.

A Vaccination is not required to our knowledge, but to be on the safe side, you should also contact the Chinese Embassy in your country.

Some selected links: Germany, France, Austria, Italy, USA, UK, Brasil, India, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Cambodia.

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Optional Information

Large local OpenOffice.org deployments (for user keynotes and success stories)

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) was established on December 13, 2001, and currently consists of 26 departments -- responsible for numerous Games functions ranging from venue planning to environmental management.

Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission (BMSTC) is a division of Beijing Municipal Government, responsible for building the capital-wide innovation architecture to improving Beijing's economic competitiveness and promoting a coordinated economic and social development.

Zhongguancun Science Park and Haidian Park are widely known as China’s Silicon Valley. They are the leading incubator of China's high-tech businesses.

Fentai District Government is one of eight urban districts of Beijing located in southern part. It covers an area of 306 square kilometers with a population of 1.36 million.

Pinggu District Government is also a Beijing district, covering about 1075 square kilometers with a population of 400.000 in the south-east outskirts of Beijing.

Erdos Group is a leading enterprise engaged in cashmere, coal, electricity, metallurgy and chemistry.

Anhui Quanchai Ltd. is a large state owned company including education, scientific research, production, management and trade with the capital more than 1.6 billion yuan.

Nanning Government is the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Chinese manufacturer Lenovo ships Desktops and Notebooks with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop including OpenOffice.org (Novell Edition)

Names of local OpenOffice.org developers (for developer sessions)

Core Project Developer Cheng Xiuzhi（user name: xzcheng）, Liu Tao（user name: liutao), Wu Yan（user name: wuy), Du YunFen（user name: dyf）, Li Jian（user name: lijian）, Liu Yu（user name: ch2000liuy）, Mao YongGang（user name: maoyg）, Gao ZeMin（user name: gaozm）, Liang WeiKe（user name: liangweike）, Zhang XiaoFei（user name: zhangxiaofei）, Shi ZhouBo（user name: robertzhou）, Liu JianLi（user name: liujl）, Lv Yue（user name: lvyue）, Yun JingTao（user name: yun_jt）, Liu YuHua（user name: liuyuhua）, Zhang JiRong（user name: jirong）, Xing Li (user name: lixxing), Ming Fei Jia (user name: ibmssfilter), Zi Jie Jia (user name: jiazijie).

Quality Assurance Cheng Hua（user name: chenghua）, Zhang Hong（user name: zhanghonglala）, Kuang Yong（user name: kuangyong）, Zhu Lihua（user name: redflagzhulihua）, Wei Xuqiang（user name: weixq）, Liu Shibo（user name: liushibo_redflag）, Peter Junge (user name: pj)

Language team Cheng Lin（user name: chenglin）, Aijin Kim (username: blueice7), Joy Zhang (username: joyzhang), Wei Zhao（user name: weiz）

Education project Huai Jinyang aka Michael (user name: jyhuai)

Names of local OpenOffice.org vendors/partners (potential sponsors)

Corporate Sponsors: Sun Microsystems, Redflag 2000, IBM, Google, Intel, Ubuntu, Red Hat

Don Harbison, IBM: IBM stands by the RF2000 proposal to host the OpenOffice.org Conference 2008. Beijing is the home of our Lotus Symphony development team working directly with OpenOffice Technology, so we are excited and eager to work with RF2000 to make the 2008 conference an outstanding experience and success.

Associations: China OSS Promotion Union, ChangFeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance, Co-Create Software League

Travel costs

Price reference by recent samples: Europe 600