 OK, let's start. So today, I will talk about Vietnamese localization for liberal office. Actually, I will talk about a couple of things. What we have done and what we are doing now and what we are going to do next. I will give some information about various things. I think 30 minutes are a little short. So I will skip the slide very fast. OK, today I will talk about the important milestone for Vietnamese liberal office team and what we have done as a issue and interesting topics. Yes, what we plan to do next and the last session is questions and answers. OK, this is about myself. Currently, I'm working for a Japanese company about software development in Hanoi, Vietnam. A few years into past, I've been quite active in translating open source software like LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Firefox, KD, Chrome, Ubuntu. But as of now, I don't have much time. So I'm focusing on IT event and community building in Vietnam and especially in Hanoi. OK, a little history about Vietnam liberal office team. And actually, it was the first OpenOffice team in Vietnam who found like 30 years ago. And when LibreOffice was forced from OpenOffice, we have a small team of about four or five core members to start translating LibreOffice. I think the version is 3.0. And until now, we still have a team, but not so active. This is the team. We call it the MOST team and MOST project. The responsibility for the MOST team is to make an open source operating system in Vietnamese. This will include whatever user can see on the PC or Xenax. So the goal of this project is to localize open source, GNOME, Firefox, and LibreOffice. And we have to do lots of things. The screenshot on the right is our discussion archive from many years ago, on Xenax. And this is the website of the project MOS. In the project MOS, as I said, we transfer our OpenOffice open to LibreOffice like this. And this is a mailing list with what we're discussing. And for some important reason, we use the account to serve for what we have translated in the past. So how is the OpenOffice team migrated to LibreOffice? When some micro systems start to develop overall, we have discussed with our team member. And we have decided that we Vietnamese team won the support overall, and we script almost all our team members to translating LibreOffice until now. This is what we do. First thing we do is send the tribe to create a website for our community. So the next, OK. You created that site? Sorry? Or you created this, or you just transferred from? Transfacen. Transfacen, yes. I think other team can do the same. Note the programming skill required. And some detailed topic. I think it's topics and issues in drum order. The first thing I think is interesting. So how decision making in our team is made. So we are all volunteers. So basically, we don't have a leader. We then don't have a person on the top to decide everything. Or we don't have a final decision maker. Yes. So everything to be decided will be discussed. And finally, we have to reach some level of agreement. We have no official rule or guideline for how agreement is made. But basically, we talk. We talk to each other. Our members are not only in one location. We are all over the world. Hanoi, Saigon, some people in Japan and America. So what do you want to discuss in the email? Did you mention how many members? Yes, it depends on the situation. For example, I will talk to you later. We have a topic about that. So these are the big issues. So do we need a Vietnamese version for liberal office for our OS? Or we just use English version? It's a very big question. For some people, educated people, for example, high school or university students, can use English very difficult. So for them, we don't have to translate. But for older people and for children, if everything is English, they won't understand. It would be better if we have a Vietnamese translation. That is the reason why we create a Vietnamese version for liberal office. So I think, as I said, most Vietnamese cannot use English very well. Especially for government officials, the level of English is very low. So it's better to have a Vietnamese person for free. And some other important points. Yesterday, I talked to Paraguay. They say that the percentage of piloted software in South America is very high. Actually, in Vietnam, it's too high. This means in Vietnam, almost 100% of software is piloted. So people use Windows and Microsoft Office for free. They don't pay for it. Maybe they know the China. Yes, it's the same to China. It's 100%. Yes, in fact, how people use software. Because people get Microsoft Office for free, so we can't sell liberal office. We can't say to them that liberal office is free. You have to pay for other software, so let's use. It's free. It's ethical to use open software. It doesn't make sense to such type of people. The same situation. Yes, the same situation. I don't know about how about Taiwan. The same situation in Taiwan about maybe 10 or 15 years ago. 15 years ago? 10 years ago. 10 years ago. How about now? No, it's much better. Because all the schools, all the government they won't buy enough licenses. They just buy maybe partial. Partial, yes. In Vietnam, Microsoft have offered one license for Microsoft Office for $1. It's very cheap. Pennsylvania government have refused the license. $1 for one license. But we refuse. People there to use liberal office if they both are corporate. It's very hard. Very, very hard. Under the conditions. We have strong points. We have a few techniques to convince people to open software. For example, for people who like security, like hacking. So we convince them, the next is cool. If you want to hack someone's computer, the next and even office is better. OK, I will talk to you about that later. Maybe later I will show how we did that in Taiwan. Actually, at 6 PM, we will have a discussion, a chat room about this topic. And BSA has good impact for open source. BSA came to our company and says, you are a private software. So let's stop it. They incite people of our folks to squid to open source. And it's a very interesting topic. It's a trial. And in Vietnam, we have two ways to translate these words. So how we did an agreement for all people all in Vietnam to the same one? Actually, we cannot. But anyway, we have to translate the words five. So how? It's very difficult. And after a very long discussion, we all agree that we use this word. It really took a long time, a few months of discussion. And now it's become standard. And we don't have a national session to standardize what words is official or what we cannot use. And see, there's a second another topic, when we translate new words. So new words mean a word that no one has been translated before. So we are the first one to translate. So how we translate, how we make an agreement, et cetera. For example, this word, extension. Extension in liberal office. We have that line. We have a goal to translate. So we have three words anyway. So the conclusion is let's discuss before that line and figure it. So next session, how we translate this one? I think for this word, it's better not to translate. Just use the bye bye session. And the topic of dealing with words that are very hard to translate. OK, so the conclusion is let's discuss. And we use a suggestion feature in Puder. And we use mailing list to discuss. I see another example, city of Wary. A set of pictures, movies, clips. So we have to translate these words. We have many choices to translate. So how we get one. As final, we will pick this one. For Vietnamese, we never heard of this word before. So for the first time, they heard the words. They think that it's trained. But the second time and the third time, when we see and hear this word, it's like this normal. It's nature. No problem. And another topic, I think that sometimes it's safe to read some words as is. Assuming we don't have to translate. For example, this was plug-in. Plug-in, we don't translate. We use plug-in. And the word file, sometimes we use as is files. And we don't translate it. And it's another topic. In Vietnam, we can use English for like plug-in. And we can use Vietnamese. Or we can use Chinese Vietnamese. Khanh. Yueyu. Yes, it's made of Vietnamese and Chinese. Ancient Chinese is being used in Vietnam. So we have three choice. So we want to be made. For example, if we can translate this word plug-in into English, we can use plug-in in English. Or we can translate in Vietnamese or some form of Chinese or Vietnamese. So that is question of choice. We have translate. We have sometimes one of the three approach. But I think that it depends on the case. We don't have a rule for translating this kind of words. And the next one, standard and for translation. In Vietnam, we have many dialect from sound to note. And the government don't have a session for standardize new words. So being the first person to translate, in including Firefox or in LibreOffice, we have to make a standard. I think the same thing happened to your team. We can't look up our word in any dictionary. There's another problem here. When the word add-on plug-in extension appear in the same sentence and context, it's very hard to translate. We have to deal with this situation. About the review process, it's very immature and unhelpful. We use mailing lists and session features in Pudo for debuting the translation. And about testing the translation, as the conclusion is, we have to wait until the next person. So we don't have time to compile the PO5 and compile the whole bunch of C++ source code and test our translation. In the past, I have sometimes asked the developer to build a special build for Vietnamese, but it's tedious task, so I have stopped. So I think a solution for this is to use daily build. OK, and this is the translation progress until now. As you see, the rate is not high. We don't have much people for this. So I think it's OK for now. I will talk about the reason and the definition of done for translation later. And about translation quality, I think it's not bad. It's not so bad, but it's not good. And we have a translation bug, and we fight. We will fix the translation on Pudo. And the three are one of our definition of done. What's in the menu? Yes, on top. The menu at the top, there has to be translated. And the most often seen in sentence has to be translated. Yes, city's topic I have talked before. So in Vietnam, who use a liberal office? I think not so many people use a liberal office. The government office use, but not so many. Actually, in Vietnam, we have a law enforcement to force all the government office have to leave office or open office, but they don't. They don't use. So told them away and bring to MS office to the machine. And another point. I think the government office, it's not a big deal for them to use Vietnamese or English person because they are quite familiar with Microsoft office. All menu in English, but it's not big issue for them. Despite that, the English skill is not very high. So about a liberal office community in Vietnam, we don't have a big liberal office community in Vietnam. So the people who use liberal office belong to other Linux user group like Vietnam, or Vietnam Free and Open Source Association, and open source group in university. I think it's a two thing to convince people to use liberal office and open source. Force is cool. And if you want to become a hacker, let's use it now. That is the way I do the marketing for open source. And about the adoption of liberal office in Vietnam, government session, individual, and company. Government session is very hard. Actually, I don't have much information, but the reason is using open source because of security concerns. There are some news about windows. Windows are not secure. Because if you are using Windows, we are being watched by Microsoft and by America. So people in social government session in Vietnam are switching to open source. And for individual, I think the people hate Microsoft with script to liberal office. And people learn Linux with script to open source and they use liberal office as a major. And for the company, because of the enforcement, they are switching to liberal office. Yes. More and more company are switching to a liberal office. Do you have anyone have the government section to migrate to the government? I'm sorry? Can you repeat? Do you have anyone to have the government section to migrate to the government? Yes, my friend. But they are individual, not a department or a ministry. As far as I know, the ministry of education and ministry of science and ministry of telecommunication have tried to switching to Linux and open source and liberal office, but no big success. It was switching back to Windows and Microsoft's office. So what kind of security concerns have they? Windows is not secure. Which? Windows is not secure. So in Windows, we have better malware. Yes. Because one of the comments which I got from one of the defense personnel in my country was, we cannot, I mean, that's a comment. OK, I'm not with that. He said, because there is no support, because we do not know who will take it, it can be unsecure for the defense sector. So it's really difficult to convince them as to which is secure, which is not secure, or whether both of them are unsecure, both of them are secure. Yes. So did you have any experience in that? I don't work for military, so I have no knowledge. Not really military, but any government agencies? So what I know is for police and military in Vietnam, they are using both Windows and Linux. And for military, they are using Linux, most of the time. And for some special device for controlling and monitoring, because the software runable can only be run on Windows, so they have to use Windows. OK, I'm going to say next. OK, about promotion and marketing in Vietnam. We have, in Vietnam, the population is 90 million people. And the number of Facebook users is 20 million. So the conclusion is that if we do promotion and marketing, the best way is to do Facebook. It's what I am doing. I don't know how about your country. Some people you've line, Twitter, or Google+, but in Vietnam, it's Facebook to marketing. It's what I am doing. When I promote open source, including leave office, I focus on IT groups, on Facebook, and open source group. And we use like, share, and invite feature in Facebook. It's very quick to do and very effective. So effective event, like virus. And in the future, I will come back to translate news and publish and share, like invite people to come. And other way to promote and do marketing is an online, offline, and online event. In some event, like a subway freedom day and local meetups, people mentioned about open source, including leave office. So if we join your leave office, what can we choose? The fact is, very few people in Vietnam currently leave office. So the major choice is Microsoft office, most of the people. And the private software, as I said, 97% in Vietnam. But is it authentic data? OK, you can see the data under the BSA website. Yes, nearly 100%. I know. No, don't come. But it's true at a lot of places. Yes, nearly 100%. Nearly all the people. They use pioneered versions. Yes, almost everyone. So it's a point when we do marketing, we cannot convince people that because it is free, no money, free of charge, unless you open the open source. It's called in Vietnam Microsoft Office and Windows are free, free of charge. I think the same thing in Paraguay. Yes, same thing. Which place? Paraguay. Paraguay, the same thing. The same thing? Yes, same. And if free people don't leave their office, they can switch to Google Documents and OpenOffice.org. Yes, very few. Some government offices are still using OpenOffice. Very old version. So we do marketing and convince people to tweet to leave their office, sit in our target MS office and this one. Most business people use Google Docs. It's been hard to convince them. So let me talk about the impact of government decision on free office. Actually in Vietnam we have law enforcement by Ministry of Information, Ministry of Information and Communication. We have decisions that everyone in the government has to use Open Source, has to use Open Tool and OpenOffice, not free office. And the last thing, in Vietnam we have two Open5 format. That's been an L. One is OO, HML. And the last is ODIF. Because the Vietnamese government says that both OO, HML and ODIF are open format. So they are okay. Anyone can choose the software that supports the format. And the last is education. People in education ministry is not aggressive enough to switch into open source. But I think they are trying to do that. And the reason why Vietnamese is switching to open source equaling OO is budget cutting. The Vietnamese are not very rich. We are poor. We are poor country. So saving goes here. And as I said, open source is more secure than closed source. Linux is more secure than Windows. And the last one, open source is innovation. I think the people in the government know this. But they are not brave enough to switch from Windows. This law is mandatory. Sorry? What? The law. The law is mandatory. But the people don't follow. It's the same in Brazil. I'm comfortable with that. Yeah. I thought I was alone. I'm not sure. It seems like it's doing as well. It's a great line for other institutions. We can make a list that there is an indoor in over 50%. OK. I think we have one minute left. So let me go to the next slide. Our translating team, the number of IT people are four or five. One or two including me. And another people in most political will need to help us when we want to make some standard for translating new words. This is one thing I'm thinking about. What are the things we should do? That is the definition we're done for translating. For example, for Vietnamese, the translating progress is not very high. At least we have to make sure that all the menus are translated. And two tips. As a contract manual, the main contract manual window are all translated. So the user have feeling that the Vietnamese are nearly 100% translated. An unsuperficient spelling and grammar. It's not a big issue, but we have to make a standard so that everyone agrees. For example, do we use this one or this one? I or Y? It's Vietnam. We have standard for dead-end time format. And number unit format. Encoding. In Vietnam, we use the main encoding using Vietnam. But some people use this one or this one. OK. It's a good topic. M-O-S-W-C. M-O-S-W-C. It's Microsoft Office Specialist World Champion. Competition. It's sponsored by Vietnam and organized by some big company in Vietnam. And the name Vietnam is very misleading. And they delete Microsoft and they say, it's Microsoft Office Specialist World Champion. And because it's misleading, the community in Vietnam has, we object that. And we send an open letter to Microsoft and organize that. And finally, they script as a name back to Microsoft Office. And so what we are going to do now, one thing, we keep translating UI and health. It's mainly UI, user interface. And the second thing is marketing. So we should do it more often. Time to eat a lot and all. Yes. For teaching me. Yes. Yes. We will write news blogs and change the news from TDF and the office from Twitter. The best news is in Vietnam, people don't use Twitter. People use Facebook. Yes. Okay, that's all.