Here are some examples of the kind of submissions we're looking for and the information that will be displayed on the OOo Community map. Milestones Please submit as many of these as you can remember that are significant to your work or that of the community as a whole - we just have two sample milestone below. Please include as much information as you wish.  19 - 21 September 2007 Barcelona, Spain Description: In 2006, the annual OOoCon was hosted in one of the most stylish and dynamic cities in the world, hosting some of the most stylish and dynamic people in the Open Source world :) Media links: http://ooocon-kiberpipa.kiberpipa.org/media/index-2007.html#Welcome_Speech  26 July 2006 Portland, Oregon, USA Description: At the opening evening of OSCON 2006 in Portland, Stefan Taxhet, and OOo Community Manager, received an award in the O'Reilly/Google Open Source Awards, for "Best Corporate Liason", recognising his very long commitment to OpenOffice.org - very well deserved Stefan.... Profiles, stories and messages  Mountain View, California, USA Role(s): OOo Community Manager / OOo Project Lead / Advocate Contribution timeline: 2000-Present I continue, in my role at Google, to be an advocate for Open Source and Open standards through my work with the global OpenOffice.org and ODF communities. I consider it a great honor to have been the lead for the first four years of the OpenOffice.org project and community in my former role at Sun Microsystems. During the past nine years, I made many many great friends around the world and truly value the lessons we learned working as a community building OpenOffice.org. We jumped over new hurdles as we launched OpenOffice.org 1.0. and four days later a Mac OS X beta port, our first native language project, replaced the CA with the JCA, formed the community council and our first OOoCON in Hamburg in 2003. We were the first Open Source community to start a marketing project, distribution project, PR team and master localisation in many languages. It has been an amazing pleasure to work with such talented passionate and energetic individuals that make up this community. I'm looking forward to creating our OOo Community Map and capturing the amazing story of OpenOffice.org's development. Please join me and the rest of OOo and contribute as many stories, milestones as you can to create this living record of OOo. Charles-H. Schulz Paris, France Role(s): NLC Lead, France / MarCon / BizDev (former) lead and founder / ODTK contributor
Contribution timeline: 2001 - Present I live in Paris and have been working in the IT ever since my first (real) job. I have been contributing to OpenOffice.org since 2001 and using it since the first developer builds (before the 1.0). I am perhaps better known for having lead the Native-Language Confederation. When I was nominated, there weren't a lot of projects, but we successfully took this group from a small federated entity to a massive pool of talents and contributors for the project, while spreading the use of OpenOffice.org worldwide. Since I am focusing on the international/inter-cultural aspect of things, I tend to see many good things happening with OOo. OOo does help people; it helps them working, but it also helps them develop and educate themselves and their families. There is tangible evidences of this all around the world. That, and the fact that we're gifted with some great contributors worldwide, is what makes me proud of contributing to OOo. Blog : http://www.standardsandfreedom.net/  Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, Germany Role(s): Marketing Project Co-Lead / Germanophone Marketing Contact Contribution timeline: 2004 - Present My name is Florian, and I live in Germany, about 100 km southwest of Munich. I started working with StarOffice back in 1998 and even managed to become sort of a "StarOffice Certified User", a program that - back at that time - was dedicated to people giving user support in the former StarDivison newsgroups. I took notice of OpenOffice.org, and tried to engage myself, but I was unable to find a place... ...until the Systems trade show 2004 came. I wanted to attend the event, and made a quick posting to the dev@de mailing list. For the first time, we had the chance to exhibit at Systems, but booth personnel was needed. As I had no experience in trade shows, I asked a colleague to help, and that's when it all started. I enjoyed the week and tried to engage myself more and more after that. I never thought of myself doing marketing or being a contact person for the press, but sometimes unexpected things happen in life. ;-) Today, I'm Co-Lead of the Marketing Project and still act as Germanophone marketing contact. Two roles I really enjoy. For me, OpenOffice.org is not only a software, but also a big family of enthusiasts, colleagues, freeminds, geeks, nerds and - most important - friends. I've never seen a group of people working together so tightly as we do at OpenOffice.org. To me, it makes a big difference that people do their work here not because they get paid, but by conviction. Although sometimes it demands a lot, I enjoy every day in the project and I'm certain that we'll go into a bright future. |