 So, this is just an introduction to the DF membership and also to, let's say, the community itself and why to become a member of the community and then of TGF. This is our usual talk I used to give at every conference and not only there. This time I'm going to give this with our dear friend, Muhammad Karah, who also edited the slides so I will find some surprise. The Librafi community, obviously, is a community of people spread all around the globe and this is really a great thing. And also, especially within this online event, we are experiencing maybe much more, even if when we had all our conferences in person, we saw so many people coming from the very parts of the globe. But in this case, they don't have to travel, so it's much better. As we have understood and seen previously with the membership committee surveys, there are so many spoken languages and written, obviously. And this is, again, something which enriches the community itself, but at the same time it's something that can be a barrier for the communication between the various people and various members of the community itself. Then we obviously come from many different and diverse life experiences and skills and so on. So this brings, again, a rich effort to the community itself just because everyone of us can have different skills again and experiences of life and work also. I wanted to highlight that the community is not only developers, but there is every kind of them because we have, as we'll see, translators, people who cares about the documentation and so on. How to get involved. We try and strive to be really inclusive and so we are open to anyone, to everyone, sorry, and this means that we have no kind of barriers, no kind of limits to become a member, a part of our community. And obviously, using LibreOffice as a software, it's the very first step to become at least a user and then you may appreciate the software and you may probably feel the enthusiasm and the spirit and the philosophy, somehow, which is behind LibreOffice and the open-source software in general. So when you get that, when you can feel that spirit, probably it's time to get in. As I was saying before, every one of us has some passion or hobby or interest or somehow and they could be useful for the project just because, for example, I used to be a DJ in the past and a speaker, I'm still a professional speaker, so this is something that I try to apply and to give us an effort to the project. So I used to, for example, give my voice for the video, the tutorials and whatever, of the LibreOffice announcement, for example. So in Italian, usually the official, let's say, but not just because I'm volunteering, the official Italian voice usually is me. But I mean, again, it's open to anyone who wants to give this voice or her voice. And so it's just enough to have some spare time and goodwill and with no obligation, especially to be a community member, there is no obligation at all. There are tons of things to do and so everyone is welcome to help in one of those things which are the most diverse because as we'll see later, there are many activities which can be done in the spare time of a user and a community, then a community member. The idea which is behind being a participant, so being a member of the community, is to give back. What I mean is that everyone, at least we wish that everyone knows that LibreOffice is free software, it's open source software, so you may download it for free and use it wherever and whenever you want. And this is clear, hopefully, but anyway, we don't dislike having something back in terms of usually contributions and I mean, so doing something for the project or donations of money. But when and if you feel, you know, the need to give back something to the project, just because you trust, you see that the project, the software is really awesome and you use it with profit, probably, and you like it so much sooner or later, hopefully, we come the time to, that you will feel that you would like to give something back. So that's the good spirit and the moment to be part of the community, at least, and then of TDF, the foundation. Why contribute? First of all, I was saying, as I was saying just before, the satisfaction. I was telling you about my satisfaction when I sew my bug reapers fixed, but this is just one of the satisfaction you can get back from, you know, being part of the project because just feeling part of the project is already a reason of satisfaction to feel useful to others just because, for example, reporting the bugs, the bugs were fixed but not just for me, but for everyone. Getting in touch with the community and, you know, learn so many cultures and different languages and so on and something I really love and possibly meeting these people in person as long as we can do that and so know different people and cultures. Being recognized by others because, yes, it may happen, I mean, I'm not that famous, but sometimes it happens, oh, you got really, I saw your video, something like that, which is something that, anyway, gives a bit of satisfaction back. And also, the advocating, I mean, encouraging others to join is something that, from my point of view, gives a lot of satisfaction. Please, I can't see, because of the presentation screen, I can't see any message on the chat room and so on, so Stephanie, if someone has something to say, just report to me because I can't see it. Thank you. Yeah, sure. Thank you. The reason, obviously, the side of growing your knowledge because, indeed, even if you apply with your personal skills and experience to the project, probably sooner or later, you will face and you will meet some other skill just like today. So for the very first time, the bye-bye setting in kind of live as well as the performance and so on. So sooner or later, you're going to learn something and grow your knowledge. And those knowledge and the membership itself could be a reference for job applications. You can put in your CV, all those experience you had and also the membership itself. And fixing your bugs or letting them to get fixed, which is what I was mentioning before. Finding your name in the credits, because why not? At the end of the story, there is a page of the credits on the liberal office website and find your name there is always satisfaction as well. And finally, to make the difference, because someone more famous than me said if you want the world to change, just be the change of the world. Everyone knows what is liberal office, but what about the document liberation project? This is something I want to always push just because sometimes the document foundation is recognized just like liberal office itself. Well, the document foundation is the home for liberal office project, but also for the document liberation project. For those who doesn't know what is a document liberation project, it is the part of the software which gives you the possibility to open and save in different formats, just like SVG, for example, or Corel, Drow, for example, just to cite some of them. And this is possible thanks to the filters, which are those pieces of software. And the team who cares for the filters is the document liberation project. And the name of it I think is self-explanarity. So how to contribute to liberal office? I would hand over to Mohammed here so he can continue the presentation. Thank you, Gabriela. Could you please confirm you hear me? Yes, definitely. Thank you. Yes, I'm fine. Thanks. Yeah. Thanks to Gabriela for explaining why to contribute. Now let's talk about how to contribute to liberal office and document liberation project. You can contribute in various ways, like marketing, documentation, translations, quality assurance infrastructure. You can contribute with design and you can also take part in development of the projects. Now let's talk about them in detail. Yes, I just want to remark that the icons, I don't know if you can see my arrow. Yeah, okay. Can you see it? As you can see the two icons, this is the liberal office project, which is obviously present in all of these activities, while some of them are really are also applicable to the document liberation project. Thank you. Thank you. The first topic to talk about in detail is marketing. You can know how good and beautiful is your project and product or software, doesn't matter if you can't market it to people, to have users to use it, who will use benefit from it and appreciate it. So marketing is a crucial part of the project. You can go to conferences and seminars, talk about liberal office and DLP. You can also organize yourself subconferences or seminars. By the way, if you would like to organize something locally, for example, you can ask for support, financial support or for mentorship. You can run training sessions, you can train people about liberal office on a user level or developer level, technical level. You can contribute with promotions. I don't know if this is a typo, G-locally. No, it meant locally and globally at the same time. Yeah, I thought so. Globally you can do your promotions on a local level and they can combine it, resulting in some global promotion. You can promote liberal office in your school, at your workplace, in your country. You can do, especially nowadays since most things are big online, you can easily do some international promotional things. You can prepare promotional stuff which can be reused by others also, like photos, presentations, videos, interviews. You can, for example, interview with someone well-known and publish that. You can also help spreading the love of liberal office and DLP on social networks. Mohamed, there is some kind of noise on your microphone, just like if you are, you know... How about now? Touching, much better, thank you. Okay, it was hanging. Okay. And about documentation, again, it is a very important part of the project. By the way, I will probably be repeating this sentence because all parts of the project are very important. I think of it like a human body which needs to be in harmony and all parts needs to be healthy so that you will be healthy and productive. Good. I like this. For documentation, this part I am talking about when I say documentation here, it is mostly about user documentation or for regular users, common users or expert users. We have a documentation team, writing and updating, maintaining our documentation, writing manuals, maintaining our online help, also our wiki pages. You can contribute in all of them or one of them as you like. If you would like to join the documentation team, you can just go to liberaloffice.org and click on the Get Involved link, then under that you will find the relevant links to join mailing list of documentation team. You can also write file format papers for DLP and you can support others in English or your language. You can do this on mailing lists by taking part in discussions, providing feedback, answering questions of other users. You can also do that on social networks and liberaloffice.org, which is a platform, question and answer platform. You can search through questions and you can answer the questions which haven't been answered yet. It is very important because it serves as a knowledge base. It's a memory for all users. If you're even asking a question, that is a contribution because if someone else is capable of answering and answers, then even if after you are done with it, other people in the future will find that and benefit from it. I want to add really quickly and probably we should go a little bit faster just because the timing is running fast. For example, in the documentation team, you don't have hallways to know English just because sometimes when the manual are translated in your native language, you could be a translator and we'll see it, but you could also just provide the screenshots. The screenshot is not about translating, it's just about taking the very same image of the software in your locale, so that's it. Thank you. You can provide translations. It's a common part of almost all open source projects, large open source projects. They all have translation and localization teams because open source projects are meant to be used all over the world by people speaking different languages. You can help LibreOffice speak in your language. You can translate menus, translate online help, translate the website, wiki pages. You can translate LibreOffice interface or marketing stuff. For menus, you should probably join the documentation team. For website, you might need a bit of knowledge about Silver Stripe. Probably the easiest to get involved here from this list are wiki pages and LibreOffice interface because for wiki pages, you don't need any permission to start. You just go register on the wiki and start contributing by creating new pages in your language. You can create local versions of existing pages, for example. Or you can just go to our weblet instance where translations are done for the interface and start translating LibreOffice. I just said that I must update the slides just because the picture here is about Puto. I'm sorry. I didn't realize we now have weblet. Also, please notice that all the links in blue, they are hyperlinks. We will let the slides available, obviously, and when you will download them, you will be able to click on them and go straight to the resources we are talking about. Thank you. You can also contribute with quality assurance, which is, again, a very important part because it, as its name says, assures quality of LibreOffice. It is mainly, it can be divided into two parts as its benefits, probably, although there are some more experienced people among us, probably, on quality assurance. You can get out from them when you would like to get involved, like Ilmari. One is assuring the quality by, for example, testing beta versions or development versions of the software and reporting bugs you encounter. The other one is when someone reports a bug, there is a work that needs to be done before it can be fixed by developers. That is bug triaging, and it can, it simply consists of looking into newly reported bugs and triaging them, categorizing them, making sure they are real bugs, and maybe finding the exact points where it started to, where it started, like some bugs may start at a certain point, so you can find that point. You mean the history of the project, so in which version? Yeah, you can find where it started without knowing any programming. We have instructions for this. This is called buy-by section. When you do this, you make that bug report ready to be worked on by developers. You can, as I said, join in bug hunting by beta testing. You can report broken links, prepare files for import-export filters, and you can report layout mismatch, like if you open a dokex file and you see some visual discrepancies, you can report those. I have a question for Cisco, and then I will read the answer afterwards. If this bug shown is one of them or the ones fixed or not, because at the moment it's just a screenshot, I can't, and I also can't check now. And design, if you feel like, I mean, the designers, why design is important is it is related to the face of LibreOffice. Under the hood, how good is software, how good you make it, doesn't matter to the user if you present it with an unusable or ugly interface. So it is, again, a very important part. And if you have some talent in that regard, or you see some parts of LibreOffice that could be better, if you think you can do it better, please come and join the design team. There are very friendly people in the design team. They usually hang out in telegram group. You can just join and pick up a task. You can contribute by preparing templates. You can help with beautifying and standardizing user interface. You can help with icons and dialogue windows. And you can also help with infra if you are, for example, a Linux veteran or a Linux system admin or a technical person who would like to help with those. You can help our infra team to keep our platforms running. We have Bugzilla, Gerrit, OpenGrock, Viki, TinderBugs, and the list goes on. There is a long list where our small infra team is maintaining. So your help there will be much appreciated. And development, finally. We just have two minutes. Cool. And this is, again, a very important part. In the body of LibreOffice, I see it like the beating heart. Because it moves the underlying infra of the project moving. It brings new features and fixes bugs. That's the part. You can contribute with development. You can contribute with macro writing, extensions, EZX, or you can contribute directly to the core. And at some point, you can become a LibreOffice certified developer. You can find a job with that. We usually hang out in LibreOffice dev channel on IRC, and from time to time, we run HackFest and workshops. So if you're okay, I would take back the word and just to thank you for your interesting I mean, I really like just because being just me, you have a different perspective. Let's say that. So it's really enriching the speech itself. So really quickly, why to become a member of the TDF? So why to apply for membership? If you contribute regularly, regularly means that you do now and then something. You don't have to do tons of things or huge work or huge effort. For asking potency. Let me in, please, because we are running out of time now, unfortunately. Okay. I want to thank you and Mohamed Kader very much for this interesting talk. But yeah, Italo is waiting for the next slot. So thank you very much to show us how to contribute to this TDF membership and what's the possibilities and have there. Thank you very much and keep on going on on this on this matter. Thank you.