 Okay, so when you say start, I'll just start. Okay. No, yes, it's time. Okay. Now start. Okay, thank you very much. I have been watching the presentations here in the LibreOffice conference, and this presentation is probably going to be a little bit different because it's not really a technical presentation. This is a presentation that we gave mostly at schools, at career centers, where there are people that are interested in technology, so we actually use this presentation to introduce them to the magical world of technology and also tell them that when we talk about technology today, we are pretty much talking about free and open source software. I am César Broad. I am the director of community engagement for the Linux Professional Institute for the Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions. And while I'm talking to you, I'm looking at the chat in matter most. So if you do have some questions, feel free to ask. It's going to be hopefully a very short presentation, although I tend to talk a little bit too much. We tend to divide the world of knowledge into major categories. The exact science where we have math, physics, chemistry, and the human science, where we have philosophy, sociology, and history. And we also have the hidden sciences, which is where the information and communication technologies are. In this presentation, I'll try to make a comparison with a character that I am pretty sure that everybody knows, which is Harry Potter. And the career of someone else that most of you are pretty sure they know, which is Linus Torvold, the creator of Linux. And if you think about it, it's probably it probably has some things that had to do with your own career. So this is me by the time of the 10th anniversary of Linux. So it was 20 years ago. And here I am with two people that are going to be part of this story that I'm going to tell you. John Matt Dog Hall to the left and Linus Torvold to the right. One thing that I, well, I also participate in the train the training programs that we have in LPI. And one of the things that I try to do is to tell them how important is to tell stories as long as you buy this aside the technical things that you want to teach. Because this helps to get the ideas into the mind, into the head of the students. So this is why this is also going to be a story in here. When we think about Harry Potter, well, and here's the summary of Harry Potter from where he was born until he got to 10 years old. He was born in July 31 1980. And soon after that in October of the same year he became an orphan. In my from that time until 1985, he was living with models, regular people. And then finally in 1985 in September, first 1991, he was enrolled in Hogwarts. One interesting thing is that one year before one month before that, Linus Torvold announced that he was creating an operating system which then became Linux. I compared that when Harry Potter first joined Hogwarts as the first experience in mobile programming that he had with Hermione and Ron. And also, I compare that with the first code that was written a few years before by Linus Torvold's and the code just printed saris the best several times in his screen using basic the basic programming language. But when Harry Potter turned 13 years old, he participated in the tournament of the three magics and almost double door say opening that that tournament eternal glory. This is what awaits the student who wins the three wizard tournament. But for that, he will have to survive in three tasks, three extremely dangerous tasks. So this is where actually happens. This is this is what actually happens in the wonderful world of technology. It's not that easy. You have several tests that you need to fulfill in order to move ahead in your career. They are just not only three. In 1995, Harry Potter joins the Dumbledore Army. So I compare that with his first project with your first project in GitHub, GitLab or other repository. And in June, he gets his ordinary wizarding level. So it is the equivalent of having a Linux essential certification or entering into the world of LibreOffice, the document foundation certifications. In September 7, 1996, he then starts to get in lessons directly from Dumbledore, which I compare of Linux Turbo having his first encounter with Joe Maddokal, which is actually today the chairman of the board of the Linux Professional Institute. Only when he was quite older, like when from 26 to 39 years old, was that Harry Potter really had some high level jobs, let's say that he became someone in the executive level of some companies. First in 2007 as the head of our department and then in 2020 as the head of the magic police. So this was just two years ago when Harry Potter became the head of the magical police. A lot of people tell me, especially when I get into these career events, is that in our world, in the world of technology, it's very difficult for one to know what he or she will do in the future, because things are always changing. But you know, if you are really looking into what is going on in your field, you'll see that the future is not that difficult to predict. So this is an article. It was in, it was released in December 1999. And here it says, it tells about the, and the link will be there for you also. I believe that the organization will provide you with a copy of this presentation. But this is by science fiction writer Dave Gerald. And he took a look at the things that were happening in 1999. And he actually predicted that you would have a very, a very fast and capable computer in your pocket. And he called this a Pitta, a personal information telecommunications agent. This means that he pretty much is telling us here what the cell phone is right now. So if you are looking into what is going on, you can actually imagine what the future will be and will be prepared for the future. I also, this is from a screenshot from a web page here in Brazil very recently. And I always tell people, well, don't be to be very careful when you look into ads like that. Here pretty much says that you are going to learn the whole science technology in a very short time. In this case is going to be one month. And if you're looking to the structure of the course, basically a class one to 12 is windows for beginners, then using Gmail, more for more classes and just one class of Google of how to use Google Drive. Of course, you are not going to become an ICT professional by taking this course. And there are several offers. You probably come from very different regions of the world. And you have these offers like learn data sciences in the weekend. This just doesn't work. I do like though this example from John Washington, and he published his studies on GitHub. And he called this the coding interview university. He wanted to to start working for Google. So he studied for eight to 12 hours a day for several months. He actually studied eight months preparing for a Google interview. What happened is that he did not got the offer from Google that he wanted, but instead he used the same things that he had learned to get a job on Amazon. So you see, eight months, eight to 12 hours a day. So this is this is really a serious way of studying into the to get into the wonderful world of technology. There's really no shortcuts that there's really no tricks. I will just make a few calculations in here. So if you guys do remember from your, your high school, the rule of three or maybe elementary school, 10 hours a day, eight months. So if you have 10 hours a day to study, you need to study for eight months to get your job on Google or Amazon, or you can apply the same kind of thing for any kind of company that you want to work for. And this is of course, it will vary, but it's a it's a good rule of thumb rule or rule of thumb to to know how much you need to study. So you have five hours a day, you study eight months, so you get to the to the rule of three. And I actually created a small calculator for you, which is the study time calculator that you can access here in this link. It's a very simple Google spreadsheet. And I use it a lot to tell young people the real time they will need to study to get a good job. And of course, you should learn about free and open technologies for several reasons. It's easy to build on top of what already exists. Even if you think that you have a very good idea, if you look into GitHub, GitLab and things like that, you'll see that at least part of your, your idea is being built by other people. So use the repository, still look them, use the certain genes to look into things that are closer to what you want to do, or if there aren't, there aren't things that are actually similar to what you want to do. And then you can contribute or modify that product. And this is what free and open software allows you to do. It is more secure. Eric Raymond in this book, the Katrina in the bazaar, he mentioned that, and he called it the Linus law, given enough eyes, our bugs are shallow. So when the code is open, when you have access to the source code, a lot of people are using, even if people cannot actually all of them program. As soon as they find a bug and they tell people about the bug, there will be a lot of people that know how to program and will be able to fix that bug. If there's a problem with security, the same kind of thing. Security is so important that even in our most basic certification Linux essentials, we cover quite a lot of security. Well, it's easy to access. You know, you are in the document foundation, the LibreOffice maintainers. You just download. There's nothing dark between the lines of the license. You just download and you start to use it. It's very easy to adapt. And we just had a very good example in the previous presentation on how LibreOffice is able to work with several languages, even right vertically, horizontally, from right to left, left to right. And this is thanks to a huge amount of contributors that it has from people that are in these different geographies. Another example here, you guys know that GIMP is the equivalent of Photoshop in our community. There is a project that's actually led by a Brazilian which is called Photogimp. It is GIMP, but with an interface that will make it easier for people that comes from Photoshop to start using GIMP. The adherence to standards and this is something that's extremely important for both the Linux community, the LibreOffice community, for all of the free and open source community. The internet actually was created thanks to a mechanism called Request for Comments, where people would contribute to today's existing standards. Starting with the name of hosts that we have an example in here. And it doesn't need to be serious like the RFC for the name of hosts. Pretty much became a poetry at the end, but the TCP IP evolved from the Request for Comments and other things like that. The internet exists since thanks for standards. And also, of course, ODF is a very good example of a standard. This is not enough to convince some people to come into the wonderful world of free and open source software. If we look into the world today, pretty much everything uses free and open source software. Here's an example. This is a tweet from Elon Musk. Elon Musk himself is responding to a tweet where someone asked about the Linux kernel updated that they did for the cockpit system that was running on SpaceX. So if the CEO of a company such as SpaceX, Tesla, the boring company is interested in replying himself tweets regarding Linux, it's a signal that we all should pay attention to free and open source software. We also know that the cloud is populated with pretty much the totality of free and open source software. The 500 supercomputers that most perform the supercomputer world, they run on top of Linux. All of the Internet of Things, the mobiles, they are pretty much on top of free and open source software. So this is really a career that people should consider. We just set up a partnership with the development, the document, I'm sorry, with the delivery office maintainers. And one of the reasons that we set up the partnership is because we have a very similar mission. Like the Linux Professional Institute promotes the use of free and open technologies by elevating the people who work with them. And listening to some of the presentations in here, what I can see is that you are all the time really elevating the people that work with the document foundation with the delivery office. We are a non-profit organization founded in 1999 in Canada. Our group is very small. We are about 50 people all over the world. So we do work with our regional partners that are all over the world. And we are independent of Linux vendors and distributions. And well, since quite a long time right now, we have been leaving from our certifications. There is no other type of income into the Linux Professional Institute other than our certifications. So this means that people actually like our certifications. And even during the pandemic times, a lot of new partners have reached out to us in order because people discovered that you can now. Well, they knew that, but the social isolation times actually enhanced that knowledge that you can sell your services to all over the world. And certifications become very important as credentials to show people that you actually know the kind of thing that you're saying that you know. Here is just a summary of our certifications tracks. We have the essential tracks today. We have Linux Essentials. Soon we have Web Development Essentials. Then we have our Linux Professional Track which starts with LPEAK 1, the Linux Administrator. Then the Linux Engineer, LPEAK 2, which is actually a Linux networked administrator. Then we have our Specialties, LPEAK 3. Now we have Security, Mixed Environment, Virtualization and High Availability. And soon we'll have some other specializations also. Then in the Open Technology, we'll have the DevOps Tools Engineer and this already exists and the BSD Specialist. The BSD Specialist is because the BSD, the Berkeley Software Division, which produced the free BSD, Open BSD and Net BSD, they thought that they should concentrate on their BSD-based distributions and let someone else take care of their certifications. So they came to LPEAK and we adopted their certification and we actually put their certification in our standards. I am pretty sure that part of our collaboration with the Document Foundation is actually to, if not having some of your certifications coming into the LPEI tracks, at least work together to improve our certifications together, because you guys already have a lot of experience into that. And also a lot of C-level executives in the companies, they are facing with more and more free and open source software inside their companies and most of the times they are not sure how to hire free and open source services, products and people who work with that. So we are preparing the BOS certification, which is the business of open source, which is going to be a C-level certification. This is where we are in the world, so we are in all of the areas that are yellow and we do hope that we soon, all the world will be covered in yellow. Soon before the pandemic started, we were working with Cuba and we had our first people certified in Cuba. Unfortunately, the social isolation does not allow us to move too much, but we are still developing works with Cuba and of course several other countries in the world. Getting closer to the end, another question that I received lots of the time is, should I learn to program? The quick answer is yes, you should learn how to program. Even companies, and here is just one example, Disney, which has its project Rosie2.0 that other than including women into the ICT industry, something that inside the LPI also tried to do actually is part of our objectives and key results to work with inclusion and diversity. So we are working on programs like that and this project by Disney here that is an example, they are training their office workers on Python, so they will be able to move up in their career inside the company. Some hints like if you want to, if you are going to know how to program, start learning programming logic. There are several, several resources on YouTube, on YouTube and other places. Once you learn programming logic, we will be able to program pretty much all languages. Choose a programming language. If you don't get into the fight, this is better, this is better. Look into some project that appeals to you and what is the programming language that this project uses. So start by learning that. As soon as you learn one language, it will be easily transferred in your skill to another language. Start programming with a modern IDE. I have been kind of a big fan of the Jupyter Notebook, so you can take a look at that in the Internet. I like the fact that it is web-based and also that there are several examples in there for you to start. And tell everyone what you are doing. Linus Torval used to say, release early and often. Some people think that, well, I have this idea, I'll hide this idea, and when it's ready, I'll show it to the world. You know, the ideas are there. They are everywhere. And if you don't start working your ideas, some other people will. So tell everyone what you are doing. And by doing that, start building your portfolio. It's important that you have your work published in the web. So people will be able to look into it and actually know how you are advancing your career. Most companies are learning that rather than hiring people with a specific knowledge, it's more valuable to hire people that are able to learn anything. Just the URL for the Jupyter Notebook. If you also look for Octaverse on github.com, you'll see projects that are trending and things that you should look into. And I want you to allow you some time for questions. So this is me. Cbroad at LPI.org. This is Jolly Villa-Visa who also helped me with this presentation. The first time that we provided this presentation. And you will find me in all social networks with the nickname of Cesar Brod. So feel free to ask questions now or send me an email. I do receive a lot of email, but I do reply to all of them. So if it takes some time for me to reply to your email, just forward the same email to me. It will bump into the top of my inbox again and I will reply to you. Thank you very much for the Liberty Office community, for the document foundation to allow me to be speaking here to you. Sorry, my voice is still a sleepy one. Although it's 9.30 here in Brazil, I was in another conference until late night. But I wanted to make sure that I will be here talking to you. And with me in the chat are more people from LPI, including I am seeing Juan Ibarra in here. And there are non-patches. Yesterday we also had even live a bit. So we are trying to be as present as possible here in your wonderful conference. Thank you very much. I'm open for questions. Thank you for the presentation. Any questions? I'm looking into the chat and I'm not seeing the end in telegram. I'm not seeing any questions. Or I scared people? Comment is loving the presentation with this. Or yes, only comment. Great. Well, again, thank you guys. Hopefully in the next editions of your conference. And after we'll be talking with the document foundation the following weeks and find out ways where we can work together. We are just starting our partnership. I believe that our mission is very close. Foundation LPI will have several things to do in the future. And also, you know, pretty much everyone that uses Linux in the desktop is also a user of LibreOffice. So we'll, I believe we'll find a lot of creative ways of getting our community work together. And as you invited us for your event, we'll surely invite you guys for our events. And well, we'll just stop and see what we can do together. Oh, sorry. I want question in chat. How has LPI, sorry. Can you see the chat? How has LPI, I don't, I don't know the sentence. I'm going to paste the question here in the chat. Okay. Okay, okay. How has LPI dealt with the problem of people thinking Linux is not good. This is a very, very good questions. And the answer to that has become easier and easier and easier as we move on. Nowadays we tell people, well, we thought at some point that we would also dominate the desktop computing, which we didn't like there's still a lot more windows in the desktop computers. And but we now have more desktop computers. There are more Linux desktop computers than Mac OS computers. So we are important in this market. But if you consider the whole mobile computing, almost the totality of the tablets and mobile mobile phones, they are running Android and Android is a Linux distribution. If you look into everything that's running in the cloud, more than 85% runs on Linux. If you look into the 500 fastest computers in the world, they are running Linux. Linux is the only operating system in Mars. And Linux dominates the servers around the globe, like Starlink, the soon going to be more than 100,000 satellites. They are all running Linux. So if Linux is not good, it wouldn't be the majority of these things. If you think about any kind of embedded system in cars, in your vacuum at your home, they are all running Linux. So if it was not that good, like it would be Windows or Mac OS running these kind of things. But it is Linux. So Linux really is really, really good. Okay. I think that we have reached our timing here. I'm glad to finish in half an hour as you guys asked me. But you know, I provide you my email. I'll be looking and both myself and my friends from LPI will be present in the telegram chat. So do feel free to ask questions for us. Thank you for your presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Bye bye all.