[Wylug-announce] Next Meeting Monday 12 June 2006

[Dave Fisher]

Our next meeting is on Monday 12 June 2006 in Leeds University's Stoner
Building.  

The meeting room is sign-posted from the main Stoner Building entrance

The meeting officially starts at 7.00 pm, but the room will be open for
coffee, tea, biscuits and chat from 6.30 pm.

This month's meeting has 2 main speakers:
    

    OpenOffice.org
    Ian Lynch

    Ian Lynch will be talking about his role as Education Lead for the
    OpenOffice.org project and some of the implications for ODF in
    education. No doubt, he will also have other things to say about
    FLOSS and UK education.
    

    Cooking with OpenDocument: a short, practical primer.
    
    Alex Hudson
    IT Director, Stratagia Ltd.

    OpenDocument is a relatively new format for office documents,
    created by the OASIS standards group and recently standardised via
    ISO/IEC. This talk will be a brief introduction to the technical
    standard itself, and then give some practical examples of how you
    can create and use OpenDocument format files. The format will be a
    range of tasks covered in a cookbook-style, ranging in complexity
    from simple tasks carried out with standard UNIX-type tools to
    complex tasks using bespoke tools. The emphasis will be on the use
    of OpenDocument in office automation scenarios.

Dave