 First of all, thank you for coming. I think you all know me, but for those of you who don't know, I'm a very old self. I'm Italian and I'm currently the chairman of the Bavarian Community. This is a speech I used to do really often because I care a lot obviously, but it is also my precise role, meaning that we talk about community and membership, and so this is something I care of. So this is the agenda. I improved my presentation. I told you I had made this presentation many times. So I had the chance to improve it more and more. One of the new features is this kind of agenda which reports the number of slides for each argument. Let's move on. First talk about our community. In our community, there are people from every corner of the globe, and everyone can realize that just looking at us, other people, for example. And who speak and write in so many languages. And this morning we had many speeches, many talks about particular languages. My own system has called it that way. And again, we all know that one of the key features of the open source software, against the closed and proprietary one, is the ability to customize and so to have it translated into many and many just as we wish. With the most diverse competence and skills. I want to remark this because many times people think that software means developer, means engineer or server. But we'll see later on that there are many, many things that everyone can do within the project not being engineers or developers. And we don't... Yes. I have to stick with the last point. We don't have just developers, but many, many kind of. Our community is being inclusive and open to everyone. Becoming LibreOffice users, obviously, is the very first step because otherwise you don't know either what we are talking about. And I must mention and remember that LibreOffice is a free office suite downloadable from the website, which is www.libreoffice.org. And then if you like the software and most of all... By the way, if you like the software and you can see what the spirit which is behind the software itself. So what moves the community may be it's time to get in. How? Everyone usually has some interest, some passion, and maybe you can just put that in our project. Maybe, for example, I used to be a professional speaker and also an EJ. And that's why one of my common plans is to give the official voice in a time project. So when you see official videos in time, voicing this in its mind, but not only for LibreOffice to be honest, I also contributed with a public money, public code, the Italian video as my voice. Because I like it. So it's no hassle, it's no boring for me to do that. It's enough to have just a little spare time, to see that they're willing to have fun with no obligation. We'll see later on. Meaning that anyway, you can donate your time as much as you wish. Free software allows you to do tons of things at near zero cost. For those who doesn't know what is LibreOffice, it's comparable to Microsoft Office, obviously. So it does all the same things. But for example, not everyone knows that there is a module, a component called draw, which is meant to prepare, obviously, every kind of drawings, vectorial, not only raster, and it can be useful for a total of things. I used to, for example, for technical diagrams, because it has layers, so you may overlap many layers, and you can, how to say, switch them out and off. You can decide to show or to print those layers and so on. It has the connectors, really useful for diagrams, flow charts, and whatever. But you can also use it to make a poster, a postcard, or whatever. It's a graphical service, including LibreOffice. And you have to give back something instead of just taking it, because the first reaction to people when you say, hey, do you know about LibreOffice? LibreOffice is a very, very interesting algorithm, right? Please do it, really. But at the same time, you might say, wow, this tool is really useful. It really solves many of my tasks and my problems, so I would like to give back something. My time, for example. Sorry. So that's the spirit of our members. That's what everyone in our community soon or later realize. You don't know what is LibreOffice, but what about the Document Liberation Project? The Document Foundation, which has the main network in Berlin, is the house for those two projects, LibreOffice, which is the more known and the bigger one, I mean, I'd say, and the Document Liberation Project, which is something... Well, it's a piece of code that, I have to say, makes it possible to open and save different kind, different file files. So for example, if you are able, in my LibreOffice, to open and save a Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel and so on, kind of files is thanks to the Document Liberation Project. So they used to do these kind of filters, we call it that way, which are software that are able to translate the coding of files. And this is how you can be part of our community. The icons here means that the marketing, for example, is something you can do both for LibreOffice and for the Document Liberation Project. The same for the documentation. The translating is just useful for LibreOffice. But what are these areas? This demonstrates that no technical skills are always needed because marketing is what I'm doing right now, for example, so speaking, or using Twitter or Facebook or whatever, and just let the product known, just let LibreOffice be known on the widest audience possible. That's marketing, obviously, and not only that. But the documentation is to write a manual. So it's just about humanity. Humanistic, are you saying? It's just to know English. Well, sorry, where translating is, the ability to obviously to translate from English to native languages, be it German or Italian or French or whatever. The funny thing is that also, if someone is willing to do that, it could translate the product in its own language. So in Italy we have, and also that we are LibreOffice in Venetian. Do you know Venice? We have a lot of slangs in Italy, but a lot of slangs. And Venetian is recognized by UNESCO as a language, not a slang. So they care about translating LibreOffice in Venetian. And this is possible because it's open source. So we may just jump in and do what you wish. Quality assurance is about reporting bugs. So we see that the software doesn't work well. So we just have a final report and say, hey, I've done this, this, and this, and it didn't work. To be honest, before doing this, it's much better to try aging the bugs, which means to test if someone else's bug has the same behavior on your computer. Because maybe just a photo of your computer, of his computer, and maybe on yours, it works perfectly. So it's really needed to try aged bugs. And then you get used to it. You may also start reporting, reporting bugs. There there is the infrastructure, which is, yes, a little bit more technical. And we have Klof here, who is one in charge of this kind of, both with Geo and others. Infrastructures are the website, for example, meaning the server behind the website, just to mention one. But there are many, many infrastructure. Because we have the public website, the private one, and the next cloud, and the gallery, and so many web tools based on servers. And they have to be maintained. That is a sign. This is something really interesting, because, again, you don't need to be a technician or have IoT skills. Maybe you are studying at school, design or something like that, or you're just passionate for it. And you're able to draw new icons or a new interface over there. And you can just apply and make your suggestion. Finally, there is development, obviously. Finally, bliss but not lust. And because it's a core, obviously. And here, you need to be a technician. I told you that this is not the first time that this is going on. So let's go quickly in the very... This is not because I'm Megamani. I don't know how to say the English, but the picture is mine just because of privacy. Because otherwise, I should have asked someone, can I publish your picture? So this way I'm free to use it as much as I can. And to be honest, this was exactly two years ago here in Namibia when I came for KBD Academy. And I was talking about the graphics. And this was an interview completely for God. Back in Burma. I did it, yeah. And let's say two or three years later, you published and I completely have forgotten to do it. Really, it was a surprise for me. And a bit funny also. Then conference segments, training, because you may give some kind of free training, if you wish, once you are expert about the graphics. Promotion staffs and photo presentations will be your interviews to show maybe one day if you want to make a hopefully in TV, in a national channel. Gastarion. And social network, again. Twitter, Facebook and whatever. So what are you waiting for? Christmas? Are you shy? So you can help write memos. Online help. We keep pages. This is a documentation project. And support others. This means that an image of your language is time. But because there are many lists, so new users may arise and kind of question. Say, hey, I just installed the graphics and I am able to do this. And maybe you are not that used, but that thing you are already now. So maybe you are an expert, but for the sake of chance, you just have done it. And so you are able to answer. I just see social networks ask, which is a kind of forum website, where you can also vote the answer, as well as where it is or less. And Facebook and so on and so forth. That's perfect for shy people because they won't have to show any way of thinking. No more excuses left to join. Sorry for this bakery. This is my computer, which is going, leaving us. Let's go to translation. What can you translate? Manuals. The manuals which we are talking about before of the program. There are hundreds of pages for each component. So a lot of work. Online help, again, in your language. Website because it's more appealing to have a website in your own language. The wiki pages, the LibreOffice interface. So when you do file, edit, and all the way, for example, all the dialogues, okay, in Italian it's okay and good, and file orifica, which is edit. And that has to be done by someone. So if you wish to have your LibreOffice in your language, you're welcome. But there's something interesting that you have to specify here because it looks like to translate you have to be spoke in English as well. This is almost obvious, but not completely. This means that in manuals, for example, there are pictures. The pictures of the program. So let's say that the manual says open the file menu and then hit on open, for example. Then you have a picture with the open menu. Well, translating the manual means not only translating the text, but also the pictures. And translated pictures is not tricky because you just have to watch the image and do exactly the same thing and you're copying without knowing even at all English, because you just have to open the very same menu on the same interface or dialogue, whatever. You just go there and take a screenshot. That's it. So you're translating without knowing English. By the way, also the marketing stuff because the marketing group who is Mike here and Italo, they produce a lot of paper, well, not exactly physical paper, by the way, and a lot of documents, they say, but it's fundamental to translate that as well because if you want to do marketing, the best way to do marketing is to change the language at least in your country. Again, I have a relationship with this about the screenshot. Okay. Then the recent quality assurance. I told you, this is a bug. I reported. Well, it's still open, I guess. I'm not sure. Anyway, I told you you can do bug triaging. This is the first step because before being able to submit a bug, you should first do triaging, some triaging all at once to understand what's the way to do that. By the way, it's not difficult. It's just that we call it the monkey list, meaning that you have to write down one, open the graph, two, do this and this, and then expect a behavior and a current behavior. So you just... But it's a key point to have the monkeys because the other people who has to triage a bug they don't have to waste your time. So it has to be really quick, I open a bug, do this, this, this, this and then the triager has to just write down it works for me or it doesn't work on my computer as well. Then the reporting, the hunting. There are kind of campaigns where in the two days they run this kind of campaign to find the bugs of the new release. So there is a new release who is not yet released but is going to be within two weeks usually and there is this kind of campaign in two days, a sprint to hunt for bugs. There are many little things about the quality of the software. The design is obviously this is an Italian as we may see. It's translating the program, not sorry to say, placing I'm sorry, placing the gadgets which is sorry, so maybe we'll be much nicer if this could be here instead of there kind of this kind of stuff. So the user interface, the icons in the dialogue again but all sorts of ways. Maybe in your office you use some kind of planning, I don't know, particular and there is no template that you create for yourself but share it because some of these may find it useful. The infrastructure as I told you, these are just some of the service run by a foundation which needs to be maintained. This is a little bit technical but no need to be developer but be the agnostic. Some kind of thing about developing and this is finally the coding which starts from macros. I mean, code macros is not real development but it's still needed. Then extensions and there are the easy huts which are the welcome door for new developers for the colors and then the code development and whatever. Even if it is just to be mentioned we also run sometimes workshops in which you can learn how to develop. Why contributing? Satisfaction? Feeling part of a project feeling useful to others which is something that to me at least really gives a lot of satisfaction. Getting touched by the community and the social event just like the conference. Meeting different people and cultures is really amazing from my point of view. Being recognized by others is, oh, you are the one who solved that problem. Oh, nice meeting you. Thank you, it was annoying so much. Other beer. I have the beer. I'm just enjoying it just like I'm doing right now. I'm growing in college because you have learned something from others especially in these kind of communities. Using them and membership itself which I explain quickly now as a reference for job application. Fix your goals if you are able to otherwise learn fixed hopefully. Finding your aiming credits and everyone who contributes in any way, just tweeting maybe just using Twitter is then listed in the website as a contributor to make a difference because yes, little things makes a difference in our work. If you like to make people nothing better than dinner. Finally, I just talk about membership one minute too. Yeah, well, okay, couple minutes. All those stuff you can do without being a member of the Dr. Foundation. If you wish to do it you're free to do that. But if you do it regularly, it means not once in a while but neither every day maybe once every week, once every month whatever you wish and you can give as you donate at the time. Then you may be part of the foundation. The difference between the community member the foundation member is the governance. You may vote and be voted if you can for the board of directors or the membership committee which I am chairman at the moment. Then you feel more an ambassador because you are a little bit more important in the foundation in the project. Have much fun this is for sure. Get satisfaction be the growth of other projects because this is surely one step more to grow it, to grow that. Get strong and superb because yes we are not paying, we are talking all about volunteering so no money here. But at least as a recognizer of your commitment and your contribution the review for expenses because we are a certification program, as a developer as a trainer as I am and as a migration expert and I am too. Migration means that you are expert in replacing Microsoft Office or whatever the company or the entity is using with the legal office and find your job because many I can be sure many of our members have found their job within the community and I have one in front of me for example many because because you learn many things and you get into an ecosystem which sooner or later will need someone to hire us as a direct DTF employee as a contractor as a self-employed ecosystem like I am or an employee for our company involved in the project to become a member but I have already already told you so I would like to thank you thank you for attending really leave your questions really quickly