 So let's start. Welcome to this early hour to my talk for certifications. I want to speak a little bit about the work we have done. We also have done this work the last two years where we implemented such a certification, certification revenue process for professional trainers and migrators. I want to tell you something about the process we have implemented for certifications, for getting a certification. And I want to speak a little bit about arguments and win-win situations why you should do such a certification and why it is positive for each part of this process. As I wrote the summarise for the talk afterwards, I remember well, this is not just a win-win, it's a win-win-win. So there's a third part in this game who wins also of this certification and I think it will be in the talk because it has cast a mark at the end in terms of looking for trainers and migrators and of such a process they have also a win of this process. So just let me, I'm the management director of the release of the certifications just a few words. We are working in the free office area since 2000, 2001. This was the first year when San was releasing Star Office and Star Office to open office. And we were the first German speaking migration partner with San Hamburg, the Star Division and we have done a lot of work with them and a lot of migration projects. So our track record in migrations, in trainings and all this stuff around these projects is now 15, a little bit less than 15 years old and we have seen a lot of such projects and a lot of service guys who want to give consultancy to it and are able to charge such a project. So about what certifications we speak here this morning, there are in general speaking there are four kinds of legal office certification you can get. These are the four, first of all and they were for the first time you could get a certification as a professional developer. This is a slightly different process apart from this I want to talk because it is on invitation. So the core developers is also a team who looks about the commitments some guy gave to the Libra office and then they decide to ask him hey you are great, you can give to Libra office such commitments and do you want to be a certified professional developer. And with this qualification you are able and allowed to bring in comments to the core, to the Libra office core. So they know from where these commits come for end of the core. But this is the part where I'm not speaking because it's a slightly different process. And after this was in place, thought that it could be good idea such things, such a process, such a certification for the migrators and for the professional trainers. And the third one is a professional supporter or supporting a person who is able to give different levels of support for such a big deployment in a professional organization. But the professional supporter is not in place right now. So it's two certificates I'm talking about, it's migrators and trainers. So what should they do with as a migrator and as a trainer, what is meant if we talk about these guys who is a migrator or a trainer for the migrator, he coordinates the migration process from a proprietary office to Libra office to manage the change in all aspects. And as I say that every word in this sentence count, it's not just to implement Libra office anywhere and say okay now you can use it, but it's a lot more of challenges in such a project. For one special point in every bigger deployment you have to manage change. There are a lot of resistance they use mostly in Microsoft Office and ask well should I change now or should I go to another office suite and use it. There are a lot of aspects with such a change project because it's really a change project and it's mostly even in companies underestimated this project, what it means to change the office suite and you have to handle this. One of the experience we have in the first one and a half year of this migrator certification is that there are two kind of people who are doing this professional migrator certification. One guy is more technical oriented and the other guy is more project management, change management, typical management kind of thing, orientated. So you can handle both under this, but should know a little bit of both. So the management I don't know what is Libra office and what is the models that could not be a professional migrator. The other way around you don't know to manage change and to give informations and what it means for such a change management process is not a professional migrator. And the same kind for the trainer, even here each word is important. Teach the user people of a basic intermediate or advanced level. All three levels should be covered in somehow way. This means that you should have trainings for each module in Libra office and that especially the first part of such a training, about planning planning and organizing such a training is also a task of such a professional trainer. So if you have training in a company the first thing you have to do is what do you need do the end users need for the trainings in the company and after we get this information you have to plan how much trainings and what is part of the training and so on. And to differentiate between two or three levels, mostly two levels from the end user with perhaps a part for the administration of this office suite and give them different trainings because power user is mostly able to do some text work and he looks at the menu and oh I'm fine, I'm fine, but he wants to know for example how to do a macro or how to do a maverick. And even to do some training materials it's not just information, it's also the training with some documents caring about their documents in the company perhaps take the company documents for trainings and so on. So what is the certification program like? The main focus is for consultants with experience in Libra office projects It is not yet for newbies or as we discussed for end users it's for some consultants which have a track record, a little bit of a track record with Libra office. It should not be or this process now implemented is nowadays not for newbies. Perhaps it will be for some in any time later but now it is for consultants who have a little bit of a track record with such projects in Libra office. Have done some trainings, have done a migration project in a company and so on. And as I said it's not the certification itself, it certifies people and not corporations. Later on perhaps we will have something like this, like the Libra office competence center in a company but in this stage you just certify people and they get the certification and the company can say okay we have a consultant who is certified and can do such projects but it is not a certification for a company. What was the idea out of and this is one or two arguments from the document from the Asian side what was the idea behind. The idea behind it was that certified professions have the objective of extending the reach of the community to the corporate world. And if you look here and see all these kinds of t-shirts blue one, red one, other ones you see it's working. The community is broad and is wider with more of consultancy firms, part of customers and so on and this is working very well. As a certified professional in the Libra office you are seen as an ambassador and that's really important because you have to sign it, you have to sign that you are not doing bad words about Libra office and so on it's not kind of a great thing but we want to know that you are committed to Libra office and that's the main thing because there are some issues you will be listed on a website and so on and it would be a problem for Libra office or TDF if you are not kindly for Libra office. You should provide a value added professional services for growing these Libra office system and it's also the meaning of growing so that the brand of Libra office is going out in other countries and other companies and so on so that the community is growing even with consultancy and corporates. The second argument it was implemented to have a benchmark for the quality of services so that is the idea behind that we in the first step do not a newbie certification with a track record so that if anybody asked can you tell me about certified consultant that there is a minimum level of quality in the services in know how and process such a project and so on. Yeah and that's what you've mentioned the idea behind is that it's organized worldwide we have some work tools to do it everywhere in the world for example we do this review session I will talk about we are hangout so Google hangout is a tool so that we can go to another country or something like this but really we have to say it's nowadays regional depending on language issues and so on but the idea behind is to roll out everywhere you want. Okay so I hope it works. Next question you can ask is okay that's fine I have such a little bit of track record in Libra office migration or training how can I get such a certification and there's one web page well I think all it's not just one this one is the important one where all information I couldn't summarize all these information in half an hour in this document foundation.org certification and if you have a look at it I hope it will work that's it and if you go down you see a lot of information about the branch distribution certification some of the words I've said and the introduction even here are some PDFs which are explaining the prerequisites I will talk about next minute a little bit and here's a link where you find the application form there's an application form where you just load in your name your address your email address and some more details I'm telling about and this is the place to go when you want to see additional information. Okay this is an issue and if you know how to handle this issue it's a part to be a certified migrator. So certification prerequisites as I said you should have a little bit of track record and with the application form you are asked to demonstrate some documents or something like this which show what you have done in such a migration project or for trainers or the documents I can tell you are handled what means you can have the trust that they are not going out they are handled secure so if there are information which are covered from corporate they should not spread away or if this is a problem you can get out a summary of it and present it on a document it should be out of the discipline or if there is one PDF member who can trust or as a supporter can support you and say yes I know this guy and he did some projects over there and I know it was positive and so on. These are two prerequisites and you have to show these documents with the application form. I will show you this application form so here are again some information about these prerequisites about the peer-to-peer review this is the certification code of the conduct I mentioned but you have to say ok I am committed to the NEPRA office and with the values strong values and so on. The distribution for the peer-to-peer review migration and training protocol I will tell you what this is. So you will find here some more information and if you scroll down you will see here such application where you have to write your name and what kind of certification you want to and to attach these first documents to this application form so these documents then were checked mostly for the last one and a half year italo if you know the community you know italo you know sofi they have the first look on it and say ok that's fine I have a question there and I have a question there and they verify such documents because you can't go to the whole group of reviewers say hey have a look and everybody is looking on these documents so italo and sofi verifying such documents and normally this was the experience they doing the first talk to the applicant that they are talking about these documents and saying hey you have applicator for two for migration and trainers they are missing a document for the training so please give me another document with an example for training material and so on. And afterwards this is ok for italo and sofi we plan an appointment and this could be face to face for such conference like here so that we have one or two hours of the candidate besides such a conference last we did by FOSTA in Brussels next one I did know all we will use for such other things in Google Hangout so that we could have a connection and do the review peer to peer review via Hangout it's mostly in English if we use Hangout it is somewhere in the world and the most common language is English so we try to do it in English and it worked very well and we try to have in such a conversation a native speaker with us in the Hangout so if there are problems with the language that he can translate or help for some things. So two ways to do these review perhaps by Hangout or besides such a conference where we meet face to face yeah I told you that there are two different or that there are groups doing such certifications in the review committee so the committee above is thinking about the process and managing the documents for questions in the review session and so on and the second important one are the people who have agreed to do such face to face reviews or Hangout reviews asking questions they're getting the documents and if they have questions to the documents or they prepare questions out of a questionnaire we have done 500 questions or something like this for each module for each aspect of migrations or trainings three to five people out of this committee are in such a review and each of them are able to ask questions normally it goes afterwards and after one hour or something like this they say okay I'm convinced you are a guy who have knowledge in the modules and the training in the migration process and change management or what the applicant here is and as I said in nowadays we are able to handle the review process because of the language issue in these language, English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, German, Portuguese and Spanish and I'm no Chinese, no Asian language so we should talk and have something like this for Asia the review committee is three to five persons out of the crew discussing prepared questions these questions are permanently under work so if one have one question and said they want me to show mail merge then it must not be that the next one have also to do the mail merge so it's the questions are unchanged and they are oriented on the migration protocol and on the training if you've seen this website there was one PDF training protocol and one PDF for the migration protocol and it is my tip to look at in this document because the questions are around these themes who are discussed in these two PDFs and they are very good texts. After the committee have approved the certification you will get such a kind of paper with a stamp on it and you can show I'm a certified trainer or my creator or end my creator but afterwards this certification will last for a defined period. I think we have discussed that this is for the moment 24 months and afterwards you have to have another peer-to-peer review about activities you have done during this period so the committee want to see that's going on that's not just especially in the training area not so much in the migration area but in the training area the process is evolving and things are changing and so on so after 24 months you have to be and there's another important thing afterwards you are certified you will be listed on the people of this website I feel the address web address so as our experience was a lot of companies and so on are looking on this list and seeing ah okay it's certified people are getting contact with them if they want to do such a project or if they need trainings so what are the wins as I mentioned at the beginning for the customers I think it's obvious to talk about it but I try to summarize this for larger deployments for every project needed to have added values for the product launch and also for the time where they are using so they are looking for migrators and trainers and are very happy to see such a list and get information about who is able to do such things with experience with a drag record they know it's a proven quality of the certified people and they get ideas and solutions and experience out of quite similar projects in other nobody want to be companies are thinking nobody want to be the first one doing such a migration project so they are all looking for experience what were the problems that you have managed in the other companies what are the we have two important arguments seen in one of the first slides it's important it's the growth of the ecosystem and it's the certified people are bridges bridges for getting information about what is needed in companies large deployments of and they are bringing part of the community bringing in information about pros and cons and where are shortfalls these stuff to work with group policies from Microsoft operating systems and so on these are things coming out there current ecosystems getting a new part in the community and the important one is getting issue tracking process so if there is an issue which is in the company this is handled in the bug tracker last one are the applicants what is the main win applicants their track record they have done is rewarded it's testified so they can have in consequence a higher market value and a higher market share perhaps so you are the first guy who is asked can you help me in such a project future activities process is in place so we have to doing this process more you want to have new regions have to do more marketing about the certification process and even but this will not be tomorrow or even next year training for newbies or these training for candidates and newbies are getting these support certification in place this will be a future task where we will work on the next months so this was in half an hour short time to say something about the certification process if you are interested you have seen all the names but you can also go to the websites I have shown and you would be happy to hear more applicants and help them to get the certification thank you very much for the