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Louis Suarez-Potts

Louis Suarez-Potts
Community Development Manager, Oracle / OpenOffice.org

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Louis Suárez-Potts is the longtime Community Manager and Chair of the Community Council for OpenOffice.org; he has led the OpenOffice.org community since 2000 and currently works for Oracle. The lead and co-lead of several projects and the primary spokesperson and representative of OpenOffice.org, Suárez-Potts also represents the project regarding OpenDocument format (ODF) matters, and is on the OASIS ODF Adoption Technical Committee and is a member of the ODF Alliance. He speaks frequently on the ODF, OpenOffice.org, education and open source, and community development throughout the world. Suárez-Potts is currently working on several articles regarding open source development and education. He lives in Toronto and received his PhD from U.C. Berkeley.

Sessions

11:35am Friday, 07/25/2008
OOXML and ODF and the politics of technology as FOSS comes of age on the desktop
Emerging Topics
 Location: D136
Louis Suarez-Potts (Oracle / OpenOffice.org)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
I examine the debate concerning the ISO office suite formats, the OpenDocument and yet-to-be-published Office Open XML, and the more general politics of free and open source software now that it has become a significant player on the desktop and the focus of government attention worldwide. Read more.
OSCON 2008