Hello,
As we've been involved in the Open/LibreOffice cases in Finland, I was thinking I could suggest to give a talk at the LibreOffice Conference 2012 in Berlin (http://conference.libreoffice.org/). What do you think?
I could go there as a FSFE representative and talk about LibreOffice in public administration in Finland.
What do you like the proposal texts below?
Bio: Otto Kekäläinen has 15 years of experience using, developing and promoting Linux based systems. During the last two years as the FSFE Finnish team coordinator he has been involved in increasing FOSS usage in the public administration in Finland.
Talk: In 2010 and 2011 there where city council initiatives in the three biggest cities of Finland which demanded that the local administration should start using LibreOffice and other FOSS extensively. In 2010 a doctoral thesis about the OpenOffice migration in the Ministry of Justice showed that a migration is feasible and economically a very good investment. Still progress has been very slow. In this presentation Otto Kekäläinen explains forces are pushing and pulling LibreOffice adaptation in Finland, what is keeping it back and what will be done to overcome the obstacles, and what other countries can learn about the experiences in Finland.