Dear members & Board of Directors of The Document Foundation,
I am a candidate in the next elections for the Membership Committee.
Who I am:
I’m Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco from Porto Alegre, Brazil. Husband, father, systems analyst. I have been a volunteer in our project since 2003 (during the age of OpenOffice.org), when I started contributing to the Brazilian localization project. Currently, I am a member of the Membership Committee, where I actively participate, especially in the formal tasks at the end of quarters. Outside the Membership Committee, besides various activities, my main focus in the last two years has been organizing the LibreOffice Conference Latin America.
Why I am a candidate for the MC again:
Within the MC, I was responsible for handling member applications and renewals with the mcm-script from 2017 to 2023, when the MC started using the Proteus system. During this period, I submitted more than 1000 renewals and applications on Gerrit for voting by the MC members. With the new system, I actively participated in the final deployment in production and continue to work on creating the formal lists for the closing of each renewal quarter.
In the last two years, besides my work in the MC, I have been dedicated to organizing the LibreOffice Conference Latin America. We had great editions in 2022 (Brazil) and 2023 (Mexico), with over 400 and 600 registered participants, respectively. We presented topics that are strengths of the Latin American community, such as Documentation, Migration and Extension Development, and had speakers on other subjects like Quality Assurance, ODF and LibreOffice Technology. We also established connections with local FLOSS communities in all editions. Last year, we took more consistent steps: for the first time, we had a speaker from Asia, started a collaboration with the Gnome Latin American project, engaged the technical team of the Mexican Government migration project and got more volunteers to the project from Latin America.
This year, in December, our event will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay. One of the initiatives I plan to present there is a strategy to establish long-term relationships with Latin American universities: the “Laboratorio LibreOffice”. The LibreOffice project covers the entire life cycle of a complex and global software. We have a fantastic knowledge to share with institutions that have the infrastructure and people interested in the project.
For these reasons, I want to be part of the Membership Committee again and continue contributing to the growth of our project.
Full name: Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco
Email address: gbpacheco@libreoffice.org
Affiliation: Independent (I work at the Brazilian Electoral Court, but my current position in MC is personal and independent and it will remain personal and independent if I’m elected for another term).
I will provide information on all future changes as soon as possible.
My 75 words official candidacy statement:
I love the volunteer work I do in our project, and I want to continue contributing to it with my experience within the MC. I intend to keep my responsibilities and support the improvement of our internal processes and our relationship with the members. I also want to further my work for the growth of the Latin American community, expanding our connections with other FLOSS communities and projects around the world.