Community Member Monday: Necdet Yücel
Today we’re talking to Necdet Yücel from the Turkish LibreOffice community, who has been mentoring students and helping them to get involved with LibreOffice…
Tell us a bit about yourself!
I have been working as a lecturer at a university for more than 20 years. I teach programming and computer networks courses in the computer engineering department. My main area of interest is free software. My personal contribution to the free software world is mostly by making Turkish translations of free software – and I try to explain the free software world to my students, and guide them through it.
What are you doing in the LibreOffice project right now?
I’m one of the old translators of LibreOffice. I have translated hundreds of thousands of words, but I have no motivation to work on translations for a while.
Since 2015, the year Gülşah Köse become a LibreOffice developer, more than 15 of my students made contributions to LibreOffice. One of them is Mert Tümer’s, who is an active LibreOffice developer. Gülşah’s work was a major influence for LibreOffice developments in Turkey. I am very proud of my students, who started with her and continued until Gökçe Küler.
Do you have any tips/thoughts to share from bringing people into the community?
I think we have no choice but to direct students to free software in universities. Because it’s the only chance to to study how the programs work. Reading well-written code, changing it, compiling and redistributing it are the main requirements for being good developers. If we can explain them to students, they will become free software developers.
Is there anything else you plan to do in the project
The only thing I think I know well is mentoring students to free software. My short term plan is to continue translating and consulting students for free software.
Many thanks to Necdet for all his contributions! And to everyone reading this who uses LibreOffice and is interested in getting more involved: find out what you can do here. We’d love to have you on board, in our community!
Thank you for contacting me !
I am 81 years old, and I like the LibreOffice software. Due to my age, I have a challenge to read the screen of my laptop, and the constant updates from Windows 10. I have lost files, had some files renamed and the LibreOffice files hidden/or deleted and replaced with WORD and EXCEL
I am surprised that I am the ONLY one that has this problem. Is there ANY programs that will stop the updates that I do not want or haven’t given permission to downlead ? I turn my laptop off after disconnecting the wifi, ( Airplane Mode ) and when I turn the computer on viola ! It was upgraded and I can’t find the desktop that I had arranged and photos that I cannot open. JPEG, but the computer tells me that they cannot be opened, yet files full of JPEG photos work just fine.
I am also seeking speech to text programs that do not require me to be on internet. My hands & fingers aren’t as supple as they used to e.
Thanks for any information / suggestions that you can provide.
Hi Arthur! Thanks for your comment – please note though, that we can’t provide any technical support in blog comments. (We’re a small non-profit with very limited resources, and we can’t give one-to-one support for millions of users around the world.) However, we have a community assistance website here, where you can get help: https://ask.libreoffice.org
Can an elderly person with some eyesight challenges and hand / finger manipulation find programs to make it easier? Speech to text and some help trying to live with Microsoft interference in my computer use?
HELP !
Hi Arthur, as mentioned in the reply to your other comment, we can’t provide technical support in blog comments (we’re a small non-profit and don’t have the resources). For all help please see: https://ask.libreoffice.org
We meet Mr. Necdet Yücel, especially from Linux Summer Camps. We were together with my dear teacher Mustafa AKGÜL and Doruk Fişek in different environments. I am also a high school teacher and have been teaching free software and GNU/Linux to my students for years, the pleasure of this does not change for anything. I would like to thank my teacher Necdet Yücel for his contributions to free software and GNU/Linux. I present my sincere greetings and love so that we can meet again.