 Hello everyone. Hello. My name is Giovanni Caligari. I'm from Paraguay. I did a localization for the indigenous language of Paraguay which is called Guarani. So some stats I have here. 40% of Paraguayans only speak Guarani. That means they actually speak more Guarani than Spanish and we are a Hispanic country. Also because of that 90% of Paraguayans are bilingual and just in the past 20 years the government just created a new grammar for the language. Even though the language has been around for 700 years and he's been accepted. It became the second language of the country in 1961. So I'm gonna give you a quick background. My own background. I was raised in the states in Canada for 15 years. I decided I wanted to move back to Paraguay but if I was going to move back I wanted to do something I like. So I moved back last year in October. In November I already got in touch with TDF and they approved me to do the localization. When I started I didn't know how I was gonna do it. I don't speak Guarani at all. I know how to read and write. That's it. So I decided I wanted to do the translation for the guru and today LibreOffice is Guarani. It's the first professional software in the world in an indigenous language. There are other softwares and other indigenous language but they're not professional. They're very small softwares like small educational language programs and software applications. So the implementation that I'm working hard to do in Paraguay is I've been talking a lot with Ministry of Education which is not very easy. They love the idea but that's about it. They don't they're having a hard time pushing it but I told them that I mean I'm working on with them that to take the software LibreOffice or LibreOffice in Guarani to the I don't know how to say it in English. In Spanish you want to say Campana. In the small villages outside the city okay. Towns and villages because outside the city they speak more Guarani than they actually speak Spanish. So one issue that the country has is we are not very tech savvy. So for them like I mentioned before if 40% of Paraguayans only speak Guarani they can finally start working in a language that is theirs because you can have the program that does everything you like but if it's not in your language it's it's useless right. So because a lot I've been I've been talking to some other schools and we're trying to create some new instructors for the for LibreOffice so they can use it even though there are Microsoft office users just to adjust them to the interface and it's it's a nice cost reduction for the country because we have as well like Vietnam a big piracy issue and this is something I'm not really doing but something that already happened the Paraguayan government has somewhat adopted ODF but they offer on the website Microsoft Office formats and ODF so you choose which one you want to download or use it. So what impact does LibreOffice in Guarani has? Like I said it's just a grammar has been created not too long ago and there's a lot of issues people deciding what's right what's wrong all this in life but nobody gets together to do it. So with that it gives me the liberty to modernize the language because Guarani it's a language that borrows a lot from Spanish and English right so because a lot I'm the first one in Paraguay or as a Guarani user that can actually integrate it with technology either basic because you know how calc has like stuff for economics statistics and stuff like that right so again LibreOffice becomes the first one in the world to have something like this for an indigenous language. Also the impact that you have is a new labor tool like I mentioned there's a lot of people that speak the language but they don't they can't work with it right so with this is a new form for them so to start getting educated it's also a door for other softwares in Guarani or indigenous language I've been talking to a guy in Bolivia he was so excited to see that I did this he decided to do the other indigenous language in Bolivia itself he already started he was so motivated but I don't know how far he's got but he really liked it same thing and like I mentioned before it is a fight against piracy a big issue we have in the country we're trying to cut down so when I come back I still have a few presentations to do this is I guess I don't know if it's really a point or it's not. Ka Kupe Paraguay is a non-profit foundation called Paraguay Educate Paraguay and they were so motivated by the work I've done they implemented already in 5000 computers I have in this in the small city of Ka Kupe so when I come back I have a presentation to do it with them and explain it why and they say they also want to they would like to contribute back to the translation over Amisiones Argentina as in the north of Argentina Guarani is also spoken outside of Paraguay it's actually spoken by 10 million people which is a lot and the north of Argentina also speak it so they invited me to go there to show them because in Misiones they just past few years they accepted Guarani as a official language of the province right and again back I would be going back to the Universidad Nacional Asuncion the National University Universidad Nacional where I was there with Oliver not a long ago they say they they already used LibreOffice and in the school and they say they want to start distributing LibreOffice both languages so most likely they just we're gonna make a small package for the students so going back to Paraguay Luca to me is very important because they are trying to get a lot of the kids from the small villages to start using open source and from that they adopting Libre Guarani right they're actually doing the one laptop per child I don't really like that project that much but it's working for them they have closed eyes with a miniature education and that's good it's very good because like I mentioned the miniature education is very hard to deal with so at least I can have some sort of influence with them so we can start making a change and like I mentioned Paraguay Luca it's open source so they're working in open source a quick conclusion my presentation is actually almost done what's the main goal that I wanted to do for LibreOffice and Guarani we have a big issue with education the country only spends 3% of the budget in education which is very low so with this it becomes a resource for a better education you all know that today if you want to have a job the minimum you got to know is how to use office read write and live in use office those are the minimum so with that I think we can start developing the people in Paraguay much better with that start position in Paraguay at the same level while they're more developed countries countries like Uruguay which is not too far from Paraguay they became totally open source same with Chile and they see the potential of it and they have adopted LibreOffice I don't know if they I don't know if LibreOffice actually knows this and I guess this is going back it's preparing the Paraguayan users for the workforce because as I mentioned office is a very important tool to have it today I mean that's a must requirement and that's it thank you so I have a question is the Guarani that is spoken and written in Paraguay much different of the Argentinian and Bolivian? No they since we created or since Paraguay created that grammar and alphabet which is just borrowed from Spanish they're using the same the work that is done for Paraguayans would also be effective for other countries I forgot to mention in the previous slide I don't speak Guarani so what I did was I moved back in October and I had some cash that I saved to move you know so I spent the money from my own pocket with a professor or he's not a professor he's a speaker which I paid him every day every week we sit down every day for eight hours and I will come back home and I will work another eight hours again from home that's how we have that's we did LibreOffice in Guarani we had a nice team because he can speak it but he can't read and write and I can read and write in Guarani so I guess we joined powers in that way and he's working out pretty good so we still have to do some fixing because some of the stuff we translated has never been translated before so we have to go back and adjust it that's kind of why my work I'm doing right now it's not easy I'm slowly learning now but it's a very hard language to speak it any other questions users LibreOffice users we do have very small very small the University of Asuncion uses LibreOffice in school also there's a big newspaper called ABC they use LibreOffice I don't know to what extent there are a few companies that use it but I don't think they see the same value that LibreOffice has that's why when I go back that's something I want to work on it too I just been doing some research lately since I was here so basically what we have in those kind of countries is that LibreOffice is facing a fierce competition of pirated Microsoft yeah for sure I mean it's not about that it's free it's about choosing the right product right because I can get anyone can get Microsoft Office for free that's not a fight it's about showing on what's right right and that's something I'm slowly developing it's still a fight to go but the whole point is all about how do we communicate the right thing to people because they can do wrong things yeah that is there per view but what we can do is to you know put it in the right way we can put right things to the people and that's that's how we can increase the user base well I have a not too long ago in the Perry Ryan newspaper sorry news TV he was he's an active open source guy and he was explaining on TV which I thought was very interesting he said that sure you can get all the closed programs for free but I mean you forget I mean a lot of those programs they pay a lot of money for security so if they crack in it they're putting some malware inside so eventually you computer will have a virus why would you want to do that why don't you get the alternative and it's clean you know it's very clean you don't have to deal with it and I guess a lot of people started thinking about it and I thought that was very interesting when you mentioned it. Well that's an interesting way to market open source yeah by a crack it's closed source software and get the virus yeah he even said that to the lady on TV he's like she's like he asked her like do you have a virus in a computer she's like yeah he's like I don't so I'm curious we have people here in the other countries in Brazil we had many sites that offered Nubiosy they compiled the software and they distributed the software but in the software they put the malware yeah they do both malware and do you have problems in your countries with that because in Brazil I always receive a message with people complaining oh I have a virus in my computer because Nubiosy put the virus in my computer and I have to ask where did you do the download and site whatever no you have to download the official site do you have the same problem in your countries I don't have a problem with the office but we had some problem with other open source software gimp how that is you gimp how that is you um thank you