Contact with Community

[Heiko Tietze]

Hi Christopher,

you are very welcome in our project. Whether your volunteers are
developers, designers, translators, QA fellows, help authors... we
have teams for all disciplines. Start from
http://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/ to find the how-to
pages at our wiki. Speaking about UX, the start page is
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design with all relevant
information. My advice is to just jump into the cold water and to read
and comment on Bugzilla http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ (design
related tickets have the keyword needsuxadvice).
As Henry pointed out we also have Spanish speaking communities. A
group was created recently on Telegram
(https://telegram.me/libreoffice_es). The local communities are one of
the main pillars for LibreOffice. CC'ing the marketing about that who
may know details.

Thanks a lot for fostering Open Source,
Heiko Tietze (UX Mentor at LibreOffice)

2017-07-29 17:56 GMT+02:00 Christopher Díaz <christopher.diaz.riv at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Christopher Díaz Riveros, I'm a software development student
> in Lima, Peru. For some time now I have been supporting my Linux
> community, Gentoo Linux, and I have discovered a wide world of
> possibilities in open source.
>
> I tell you this because it has been so much benefit in my training as a
> developer that I am determined to start a new community in my country
> to be able to make technology-related career students find an open
> source community in which they can learn to work and get the same
> positive effect that I have had on mine. I have already been talking to
> some teachers, I am about to begin my final year of studies in
> institute, and they agree to start the community with students of the
> institution.
>
> As one of the main problems when getting involved with a community here
> is English, and few are able to have fluent conversations in that
> language, as it is a bit intimidating for most to approach an open
> source community. My community hopes to get in touch with different
> open source projects throughout the world and seeks to be a mid-point
> to interact among young people and communities.
>
> Having said all this I have only to offer the community of LibreOffice,
> the availability of our community (we still do not have a definite
> name) and see if anyone is interested in supporting this group of
> developers here and with a bit of luck to be able to turn it into a
> movement of all Latin America.
>
> Thanks and any kind of feedback is welcome :)
> Christopher Diaz Riveros
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