[native-lang] Re: Community Council Election 2010-03: Introduction Phase

Thanks Christoph, for the opportunity.

My fellows Native Language friends

My objectives in this position is to do my best to bring a “voice and 
experience from the South” into the CC.

For those who I have not met personaly, my involvement in OO began by 
coordinating the translation into Brazilian Portuguese of the glossary 
and the first release of OOo back in 2003 up to the release 1.5. After a 
small period of absence I took back the translation from release 2.3 to 
today. I am also founder member of BrOffice.org, the Brazilian NGO 
devoted to represent the legal matter of the Brazilian OpenOffice.org 
community, which I am also the CFO and Board member. Over the last 3 
years I have managed to develop healthy and wealthy business with 
OpenOffice.org in Brazil, notably by acting as CFO, salesmen, and senior 
consultant, and by leveraging business opportunities for other members 
of the community that have strong commitment with OOo and open source 
software. Of great importance and pride, and with my direct 
collaboration and services, I must mention that last March 9^th , 
Petrobras, the national oil company of Brazil, a $123 Billion 
corporation, deployed 90.000 new OOo's in all desktops, after a year and 
half of meticulous preparation and bullet-proof project management, in a 
move to adopt open standards and mature open source software, as a 
strategy for the company growth.

Since I live in an emerging country, I am everyday opposed to the huge 
social gap between the various strata of our society. As emerging 
country, we are constantly facing issues related to
- poverty and extreme poverty,
- illiteracy and digital illiteracy,
- weak or immature democratic institutions
- Economic contrains
- low education levels.

In all these areas, there is a role where technology and open source can 
make the difference.

My proposal is to work with OpenOffice.org communities to devise 
strategies, plans and implementations, where OO can be a differential 
factor.  With all the recent tourmoil in the traditional business, it is 
our responsability to work on ways to generate the best economic value 
with the very restricted funds. I am sure creativity and boldness will 
be part of this enterprise.

It is all these experiences and vision, together with my past 
professional activities as former exec of IBM and Oracle, that I intend 
to bring to the CC the voice of those who have already made open source 
a business reality and to develop new business models **for** all 
countries and *for* all communities.

Thank you for your support.

Please feel free to ask for any necessary clarifications

Olivier


Christoph Noack escreveu:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to thank Olivier for his nomination for the "Native
> Language Confederation Representative" in the Community Council.
> According to our election process, we are now in the introduction phase
> - the nominees do have the chance to introduce themselves to the
> community.
>
> Moreover, each of us might ask questions to the nominees ... this is
> helpful, since they might represent "us" for quite some time ;-)
>
> I would like to start - so please answer the following questions:
>       * What is your idea by the work/tasks of the council?
>       * Do you have any special areas of interest/ideas?
>       * Is there enough spare time for the work in the council?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> For all, if you have any questions with regard to the current Community
> Council Election, please have a look at the status page in the wiki:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Elections/2010-03
>
> Have a nice day,
> Christoph
>
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Olivier Hallot
OpenOffice.org L10n Leader for Brazilian Portuguese
Rio de Janeiro - Brasil