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Community Member Monday: Jackson Cavalcanti Junior

Today we’re talking to Jackson Cavalcanti Junior, who’s active in the LibreOffice documentation community and was recently awarded a custom badge for his work…

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I am Brazilian, from the city of Olinda, Pernambuco. I am 62 years old, and work as a public servant in the municipality of Olinda. I am one of the creators of the Municipal Public Archive of Olinda. I am also a human rights activist, especially for LGBT people. I am a proofreader and I also write for my blog.

In my work, in the city of Olinda, since 2001 I have been working with free office software, having started with OpenOffice.org, then with BrOffice and LibreOffice Writer, with which I created several models of documents to be used by the agencies that are part of the administrative structure of the Municipality of Olinda. These models remained on the City Hall’s intranet until 2016, when in that year’s elections another political party was elected, and that project was discontinued.

As a citizen, I am an activist in the LGBT movement, in which I have worked since 1980, when I helped found the Homosexual Action Group (GATHO), which was the first group in Pernambuco to fight in defense of citizenship for homosexual people. This group no longer exists, but I am a member of the LGBT Forum of Pernambuco, where I work as an independent activist, to which I was invited by my history as an activist for the LGBT cause in the state where I reside.

I also advertise LibreOffice among my friends, in the institutions where I work, and also in the WhatsApp and Telegram groups.

I like to photograph my city, my animals and nature.

What are you working on in the LibreOffice project right now?

I am currently working on the team of proofreaders for Brazilian translations of LibreOffice documentation.

Why did you decide to become a member of The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice?

Because, still at the time of BrOffice, I was the creator of the User Group for the software in my state. After I joined the team of Brazilian reviewers for the LibreOffice documentation, I felt it was time to request my entry as a member of TDF. I was very happy when I heard that I was approved as a member of the foundation.

Anything else you plan to do in the future? What does LibreOffice
really need?

For the future, in addition to continuing to revise the new LibreOffice guides, I will further encourage the use of this software.

Thanks a lot to Jackson for his contributions and help in our projects! All LibreOffice users are welcome to find out what they can do for LibreOffice, and build up useful skills at the same time…

Open Badges for awesome Brazilian Portuguese contributors!

LibreOffice’s documentation team is driven by volunteers around the world. Today, we want to say a special thanks to members of the Brazilian Portuguese community, who’ve worked hard to translate and update user guides.

So we’re sending out Open Badges – special, customised badges with embedded metadata, describing their achievements. The badges can be verified using an external service, and are a great way to show off contributions and use as proof of participation.

So, here are the badge recipients – we’ve sent them out personally:

  • Vera Cavalcante – For her volunteer collaborations to produce an excellent Portuguese revision of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guides, and her long-time commitment to LibreOffice from the LibreOffice Magazine times.
  • Luciana Mota – For her valuable contributions to the translation of LibreOffice Help, and the Portuguese revision of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guides.
  • Marcia Buffon Machado – For her contribution to the Portuguese revision of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guides.
  • Felipe Viggiano – For his excellent and successful global coordination of the LibreOffice 7.0 and 7.1 User guides; team management; valuable addition to the other LibreOffice 7.x guides; and active collaboration with the Brazilian Documentation Team.
  • Tulio Macedo – For his active participation in the design of the online User Guides and revision of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guide in Brazilian Portuguese.
  • Rafael Lima – For his active contributions to ScriptForge library development, testing and documentation; his coordination of the LibreOffice 7.0 Math Guide, including the translation to Brazilian Portuguese; and his active translation of the LibreOffice Help to Brazilian Portuguese.
  • Timothy Brennan Jr. – For his active participation in the Portuguese revision of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guides.
  • Raul Pacheco – For his revisions of the translation of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guides to Brazilian Portuguese, and refactoring of the guide’s screenshots and graphics.
  • Jackson Junior – For his active participation in the Portuguese revision of the LibreOffice 7.x User Guides.

Huge thanks to all recipients – check your inbox for your badges!

LibreOffice flyer for schools and universities: extra design

Our LibreOffice New Generation project aims to bring new – and especially younger – contributors into the LibreOffice community. Earlier in the year, we created a flyer for schools and universities, and we’ve sent out printed versions to many people around the world.

Now, here’s an alternative design, thanks to Rizal Muttaqin and the Indonesian community! Click the image to get the original SVG file, if you want to make updates and translations (Vegur font required). And if you’d like some printed flyers to hand out in a school or university, drop us a line and let us know…

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Coming up on July 19: Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.2 RC1

LibreOffice 7.2 is being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in mid-August 2021 – see the release notes describing the new features here.

In order to find, report and triage bugs, the LibreOffice QA team is organizing a Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.2 Release Candidate 1 on Monday July 19, 2021. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), macOS and Windows.

Mentors will be available from 07:00 UTC to 19:00 UTC for questions or help in the IRC channel #libreoffice-qa and the Telegram QA Channel. Of course, hunting bugs will be possible also on other days, as the builds of this particular version (LibreOffice 7.2.0 RC1) will be available until the beginning of August when LibreOffice 7.2 RC2 will be released. Check the Release Plan.

All details of the first bug hunting session are available on the wiki.

LibreOffice project monthly recap: June 2021

Check out our summary of what happened in the LibreOffice community last month…

  • Hossein Nourikhah joined the TDF team as Developer Community Architect. He’ll help to onboard new developers in the project, give them code pointers, and assist them as they add new features. Welcome, Hossein!

  • The LibreOffice Conference 2021 is coming up in September – and you can design the logo for it! Here’s the one from 2020 (the joint conference organised with the openSUSE project) for inspiration…

  • LibreOffice’s Japanese community reported from their Kaigi 2021 Online event. Speakers from around Japan (and Asia) talked about their work and projects. Hopefully in-person events will be possible soon!

  • Companies in the LibreOffice ecosystem contribute valuable things to the project: new features, bugfixes, and long-term support options for enterprise users. At the end of the month, German company allotropia announced that it has joined TDF’s Advisory Board – it provides services, consulting and products around LibreOffice and related open source projects.

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