I. About OpenOffice.org Conference
　　 International OpenOffice.org Conference (hereinafter referred to as “OOo Conference”) is an annual open source event, a gathering platform for those who are interested in open source and community members that works in technology, market, business, art and related field. Attendants will share their achievements in open source, such as open source code, business plan, market prospects, and technical documents etc, through forums, lectures and other interactive discussion. They will fully review the achievements in the previous year as well as make a development scheme for the near future. Here, all attendants share one common goal, that is, to effectively use those achievements brought by open source and upgrade world software technology so as to work in a more smooth circumstance.
Previous OOo Conferences Review:
The 1st OOo Conference:
Location: University of Hamburg, Germany
Time: Mar. 20th - 21st, 2003
Co-Sponsor: SUN
Participants: 300
Main topics:
1. Generality: general use and function; business and government sectors; based on the present market; XML; open source, community.
2. Technology: software development tools, interface development, localization, filter.
The 2nd OOo Conference:
Location: Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Time: Sep. 22nd – 24th, 2004
Co-Sponsors: SUN, GOOGLE
Participants:　300
Main topics:
Community, general topics, technology development, XML technology
The 3rd OOo Conference:
Location: Slovenia
Time: Sep. 28th – 30th, 2005
Co-Sponsors: SUN, GOOGLE, INTEL
Participants: 300
Organizers: members in Slovenia and Italian OPENOFFICE project team
Main topics:
Community, general topics, technology development, OOo technology application in the education field
The 4th OOo Conference:
Location: Lyons, France
Time: Sep. 11th – 13th, 2006
Co-Sponsors: SUN, GOOGLE, INTEL, IBM, NOVELL, VILLE DE LYON
Participants: 400
Main topics:
Community, general topics, technology development, ODF standard
The 5th OOo Conference:
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Time: Sept. 19th – 21st, 2007
Participants: 400
Main topics:
OOo development, general topics, ODF/XML, language localization (Native Languages)

II. Bid Background
　　The application for the host of the 6th International OpenOffice.org Conference has set off. Representative of Chinese open source corporations, Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Co., Ltd. is to apply for it. Redflag 2000 has made prominent achievements in the research and market promotion of OO technology and open source technology. Its active contribution to open source technology has been greatly recognized by international open source community.
　　In Aug. 2006, Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Co., Ltd. held an open document format (ODF) seminar in Beijing which underwent a deep discussion about ODF standard as well as government organs, standard management institutions and software corporations. Patrick J. Gannon, CEO and President of OASIS, was invited to attend the seminar.
In Sep. 2006, as the first research team dedicated to OO development, Redflag 2000 joined the 4th International OpenOffice.org Conference held in Lyons, France and gave a special speech introducing OO's development in China.
　　In May 2007, Redflag 2000 invited Mr. Louise, a representative and influential figure in international OpenOffice.org, to Beijing and showed to the international community China's open source corporations and industry development, strengthening its close cooperation with the OOo community. On the other hand, government sectors and domestic industry were informed of the latest update of international development and successful experience and expertise to promote open source's further application and progress in China. In the 1st OpenOffice.org international Summit Forum, Redflag 2000 signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with SUN and became the premium sponsor of OpenOffice.org global annual conference 2007.
　　In Sep. 2007, a 7-member team of Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Co., Ltd. Visited the headquarters of OpenOffice.org in Hamburger, German was warmed welcomed. Redflag 2000 brought forth a whole new design of RedOffice and both sides conducted a thorough and high-efficiency technology communication. Meanwhile, Redflag 2000 ran a high-key presentation in 5th OpenOffice.org Conference held in Barcelona, ushering generally the image and influence of China's open source company.

III. Bid Aim
　　As a global open community and organization, OOo community, or open source community, has been enjoying a very high popularity and exerting great influence in Europe; however, it has not been known by Asian insiders. Therefore, it is the best and most direct way to expand the popularity of OOo in Asia and enable OOo, or international open source technology, to play a greater role around the world by choosing Asia as the platform of OOo annual conference.
　　China is becoming a software R&D center with high-quality software researchers in the world along with the rapid development of IT industry. Holding OOo annual conference in China can help more university students and technical staffs learn OOo closely and make more support and contribution to the Community, which will promote the development of OOo and open source technology. China has the largest users market in the world, still with large number of PC-users increasing every day. Currently, in China there are not only mature open source technical products, but also huge number of open source users. Therefore, holding the OOo Annual Conference in China, promoting its application in China and making more users use open source software will have significant influence on further completion and development of open source technology internationally.
　　China’s open source technology is still at the fledging stage. It is necessary to learn international open source community’s advanced and mature experience in the aspect of technology and market operation. We hope through holding this international open source technology conference, we can exploit more expansive international cooperation space for China open source community’s development. 　　
IV. Bid Plan
Time: Nov. 5th-7th, 2008 (From Wednesday to Friday)
Location: Beijing Asia Hotel (tentatively)
Participants: 400 (including about 300 foreign friends)
Conference Topic: Redflag 2000 is to provide community member all over the world with a free interactive platform through the three-day conference, let the ideas of attendants with different background be effectively expressed, individual or team latest technology success be shared. It will also hold related topic discussions based on the present open source development, inviting individuals well-informed of world open source application to give feature lectures.