Beijing won by a landslide in voting for 2008’s OpenOffice.org Conference location, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo reports (based on an email from John McCreesh).

This is the first OOoCon to be held outside of Europe, and reflects the rapidly-growing OOo community in China.

Beijing RedFlag 2000 is the local representative for the bid, and Peter Junge was the co-lead managing the process. Their influence in the Chinese software market is large, and this conference should help show the world how OOo and ODF-based applications are succeeding in the PRC.

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