Hi Fellows
I am nominating myself for the NLC position now open in the Community
Council, and I ask for your support.
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.
It is all these experiences, 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 similar business models **for** all countries and
*for* all communities.
[email protected]
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Olivier Hallot
OpenOffice.org L10n Leader for Brazilian Portuguese
Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
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