The annual OpenOffice.org Conference has begun here in Barcelona, and I am very happy to be attending for the first time.

Today started with two keynote speeches. Louis Suarez-Potts spoke on “OpenOffice.org 3.0,” covering the roadmap for the coming year of development and the adoption of web 2.0-style concepts in the office suite.

Hu Caiyong, CEO of RedFlag 2000, spoke on the work his company has put in to RedOffice, a customized version of OOo for the Chinese market. The importance of deeper cultural understanding, not just language translation, is key to their plans for growth and the creation of a domestic Chinese software ecosystem. (RedFlag 2000 became a full member of the OpenOffice.org community earlier this year.)

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