 Right from everybody. So I'm originally I was supposed to talk about LibreOffice Asia But since we have a separate session around 6 o'clock, so I'll be Talk about more about the LibreOffice in Sri Lanka. So the way we Started and how the things going on. So I'm Danish Kanawin from Sri Lanka and so I Actually, I started my localization when I was at the Red Hat Localization team with these guys. So So after some time I quit and then I was keep contributed. So so So we started with the real open open obis then we moved to LibreOffice 3.2 localization and actually at that time ICTA agency helped me a lot because actually Since they had to introduce more Terms to LibreOffice or actually what they did they said they can get the help from someone who Into translation. I mean a problem just book translation So actually they print all the PO files and ask that guy to review all the things because that person is not into IT So for him, it's not convenient to use their Translation tool like localize or PO Poed it so So it went somehow Whatever. Yeah, he gave us a feedback after correcting everything. So I had to fix everything again and push it to the upstream and 2011 during a force for cow conference in Sri Lanka. We launched LibreOffice Singhala and We did the QA workshop to cover all the lead test so with the help of 15 guys So we divided them into six teams to cover each and All the products of LibreOffice actually at that time it was open office and So each team has to test it on the given Application it's a Writer so each team has to test it on both Windows and Linux to find if there is any issues other than typos. So So whatever typos we found we fix on the during the event itself and the we found few bugs so we File the bugs at the same time. So nothing remain for the next day. So This was the so these are few images from the event and This was the launch event LibreOffice 3.2 and In 2011 When we were launching LibreOffice 3.2 the help was not Translated at all. So it was really huge. So the approach was get community to translate it because the Previous translation was just myself and some of my friends helped me time to time but It wasn't not that easy to complete Help translation. So we ran so on 27th April so In 2011 so we conducted 27 hours translation marathon. So we got More than 70 contributors so most of people they have never translated but they would They were interested in contributing to a community project and So one of the ideas to let everyone to contribute and also Make a noise about the product. So some of them actually they heard about The product on the first that was their first time they heard about the product. So So this is one of the This is from University of Kalanin students or 35 students from this university. So they joined from their own lab. So Few of us were Helping them because we didn't had a style guide or nothing. So only the government closer. That was not enough to run this event but We were using IRC to help all the people and some of them were actually They were using some offline tools like localize and they uploaded later But we we did one thing actually we asked for the university students Actually, we asked them to use a particular component. Otherwise, it's really hard to find Who did what but to be honest, there was a problem with the end result because Yeah, they they did translate we could finish 47 or 47,000 words within 27 hours, but the thing is quality of the translation is not that good So some of them translated even the HTML syntax because they don't Most of them they don't know about translation. So so in that case, actually, it's our problem So we should have give them a proper guide. So So I hope in future, I mean as a LibreOffice community, so we can Run, I mean this kind of event. I mean that globally. So it's not just Completing some work, but again, we can make some noise. It's a community awareness Yeah, and later Earlier actually the Microsoft Office was clearly mentioned in textbooks in school textbooks. So with the help of Various people, it's not a one-man show, but we could be able to This is the current textbook in Singular textbook published by Mr. Feducation with the help of National Institute of education. So you can see as you can see so both Microsoft and LibreOffice Writer it's mentioned here. So Even here you can see each step mentioned in both Both the Microsoft Office and LibreOffice and we we did a Workshop to jealous in order to Make an awareness about open source because they don't whenever we run an event. They don't know about open source or Because we should educate them then they know about open source The ICT agency help us to conduct this event and to 25 journalists were Participated and some of them wrote at least one article after this Yeah, so In So in 2011 we did a awareness campaign in local government authorities in the one of the Provinces Sri Lanka. So this idea was to introduce open source tools like LibreOffice and Firefox and right now, actually we were not pushing them to Install I mean we were just introducing but there was no such a migration at all but somehow Late recently the actually today they update me. So they have started the E local government project So this project project is ongoing now. They have deployed Actually that they have already Windows machines with the Microsoft Office obviously But they so they have deployed 10 machines to each organizations so with GNU Linux or this in this machine store. Obviously they use LibreOffice and I started our project called Hantala Linux is a Fedora remix. So it was deployed in nine national schools in Sri Lanka. So this was just Deployed in around 2011. So in In these these schools, so we shipped not just a LibreOffice, but also we Push ship the LibreOffice documentation. So complete documentation who so So whenever you Create an account. So you will definitely get the Copy of the LibreOffice documentation in the home directory. So it's kind of like make Because most of some of the schools, they don't have internet in that case You have easy access to the LibreOffice documentation So since we didn't had any budget to print the manual. So this is what we did And Yeah, sorry So actually this was a downloaded More than 40,000 copies. So according to the source forge Yeah, there is an ongoing project From minister of education. So it's about a deploy in 1000 school labs So which is consistent. Okay, some of the schools getting 20 Systems per lab. It's our 40 systems. It's based on the number of students in the school. So Unfortunately at the last moment Microsoft were able to jump into this project. Now this project was supposed to be here Fully open source project But now it's they managed to get the Microsoft Windows and now it's going like a dual boot So we can't guarantee that teachers using Only LibreOffice or only Linux And yeah, so the whatever I have mentioned so far it's a Actually effort from the all the people ICT agency minister of education national institute of education And the ongoing project for the local government is from minister of local government and provincial councils And even in many universities and uh Linux user group in Sri Lanka. So, um, That's it about our Sri Lanka The things happening in Sri Lanka and I will have a few suggestions for Asia. So actually If you compare with LibreOffice project with other Open source projects like Fedora or Noam or KD whatever. So The contribution from Asia is really less. I mean, there are a few Yeah, for even for the localization, there are I mean, I think all the English languages supporting, but there are some I think it's still we need Contribution from other countries, but even localization is not the only way someone can contribute especially I think really few contributors to the development and I think even italo mentioned that he needed support for the marketing stuff. So I think even the next thing is Yeah, so we have um, I mean So even for us, we have like a common issues and common culture and so actually sometimes most of time So the issues So for me, I can get a solution from some other country. So idea is actually my plan was to have a discussion among the Communities in the Asia. So and even in future So I hope if it's really good if we can host a LibreOffice Asia Meet up or conference to get more people and and and because there are even here There are only few people attending this event. So it's really good if more people can interact with the Even LibreOffice developers or whoever that the other people like the people in the mental level Yeah, we have already discussed this with italo and sofi and so we ask them to you know Connect this kind of Conference or event, you know in asia. Yeah, or you know some middle place in asia typically india or something or wherever it is possibly so And by the way, the we have created a mailing list for those who interested so we can use this mailing list to Keep update with the ongoing upcoming events and even to share the Successful stories or even if you have a issue if you have an issue so we can share with other people So, yeah, this idea of LibreAsia conference because we can have hackathons even Talks translation screens Even for fedora actually are so actually I'm a part of fedora. So fedora we have a um Fudcon in apax or and even we do a yearly plan for the upcoming events and we do even planning for the swags everything so we We have we get all the list of events to be conducting the next year So then we plan the swags accordingly because we don't Uh produce swags in each and every country for example dvds So we produce there for example last time We got the dvds from India so then we distribute uh within the other countries We are still some my heart Libre office stickers over there. Yeah You were taken. Yes. Yeah Yeah Yeah, thank you. Uh, so, uh, I don't know if we have enough time but uh, so anyway If you have any questions regarding the my previous Slidesit for the regarding Sri Lanka. So Just It's amazing. Uh, what you all organize I'm really feeling jealous seeing you having a meeting with Seven people or whatever stuff Um, where do you find all the time? Do you have time in your job or just personal question or at that time? All in the evening No, I I was not working at that time. Yeah, so, uh, so I could I had enough time So, uh, so actually I I finished one of my Project with the ICT agency and I was waiting for a proper job So at and I was going around the country for the running for events So, uh, I met various people including the government officers or this for this event actually It was not just a youth that even like, uh, uh, all those people So even they joined someone from the, uh, direct One person joined he was a director of government re-injuring. So So there was no such an age level. So me Yeah Oh, yeah, uh, to be honest, I don't know the exact situation, uh, but it's dependent on the, um teachers because, uh, as he mentioned in What is that, uh, Microsoft challenge or something right in Vietnam? So actually it's happening in Sri Lanka also. So when they use the word challenge, so actually if I'm not wrong It's about making presentations using, uh, Microsoft, uh, in prayer, uh, sorry, uh, power point Sorry Yeah, uh, so, uh So that if I'm not wrong, that's the, uh, uh, they are marketing like you can do some visual basic or whatever the language is But actually, uh, what's the reality is they make presentations and they select, uh, regional wise and they have a global, uh, Something yeah, so that's the reality. So then, uh, teachers they They like Because yeah, we are humans, right? Anyone like to go to a foreign country and get a scholarship. So so it's they So they are trying to, uh, uh Get the attraction and, uh So, uh, in Sri Lanka and there is another thing, uh, um, intellectual property law is Actually, it's there and uh, some a few years ago. Actually, there were some incidents like, uh, um, they're actually the Well, I think department of law is actually they, uh, they This is one of the company those who they were using a prior date a copy and copies of windows and it was a One incident that because actually they find, uh, I don't I can't remember the amount So most of banks they already moved to, uh, at the time it was open surface office So they have moved from microsoft office to open office So I don't know how numbers, uh, in the uh, public but some of them already migrated But it wasn't done by ourselves. I mean if they, uh, they knew, okay, this this is a good product for them. So, uh, there was no such a, um, big, uh Community involvement like in, uh, in Italy. So these are like a small stuff. Yeah Because gaming so you have to leave this Yeah stage. Okay. Thank you