AschalewによるLibreOfficeインターンの6ヶ月間の活動報告です

1. An Internship Activities Final
Presentation
Place: iCRAFT corp., Kobe, Japan
By: Aschalew Arega
March 12, 2018

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Special Thanks!
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Mr.Hirokazo YAMAMOTO (iCRAFT Corp.)
– Thank you for accepting me as an intern, for your
cooperation, good hospitality and allow to use resources
freely and for your memorable award!
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Mr.Shinji Enoki
– Thank you for your continuous assistance and mentor,
technical supports, coordination and help us to participate in
conferences
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JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency)
– Thank you for the sponsorship and continuous follow up!
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All iCRAFT staffs
– Thanks everyone for your polite and kindly cooperation!

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Contents
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Summary
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Introduction
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LibreOffice
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LO bug triage/Quality Assurance
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Conferences and seminar
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NextCloud and collabora online integration
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Other activities during internship
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Challenges
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Learned points
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Conclusion

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Who am I?
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I’m Aschalew Arega Ademe
– B.Sc. In Information System from, Addis Ababa
University (July 2012 with award)
– Assistance Lecture in Madawalabu University (2013
~2015)
– Head department of information systems(2014~2015)
– M.Sc. In Information systems from Kobe Institute of
Computing (Sept., 2017)
– IT Engineer
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JICA ABE initiative participant (2015 ~ 2018)
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Did internship for 6months at iCRAFT corp.,
(Sept 19, 2017 ~ March 16, 2018)

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Summary
● This is an internship activities final presentation which
have been done in iCRAFT corp., Kobe, Japan from
Sept.19, 2017 to March 16, 2018
● An internship activities have focused on Open Source
Software project mainly on the LibreOffice projects, a
FREE Office suite
● The major activities during the internship period includes;
Learn LibreOffice/OSS, bug triage/Quality Assurance,
LibreOffice Easy hacks, conferences, NextCloud and
collabora online integration, and other related activities

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Introduction
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The internship activities have been started by setting
up PC and working environment- to use the
applications
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This presentation includes highlights of major activities
during the internship period. Due to time limitation,
details explanation is not included
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During this period, I read and studied different open
source materials:
– TDF- The Document Foundation
– Eric Raymond’s open source document
– The Cathedral and the Bazaar
– Fearness change and more fearness changes

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Started learning about
LibreOffice(LO)
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LibreOffice is a free
office suite!
– Fun project,
Knowledge sharing
and collaboration
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Installed LibreOffice
in different OS
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LO components
(writer, Calc, impress,
draw, base)

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LibreOffice bug triage/ Quality
Assurance
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What is bug triage?
– Bug- a SW bug is an error or fault in a computer
program that causes it to produce an incorrect or
unexpected result.
– Triage- is the process of determining the priority
based on the severity of their condition
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BugZilla- defect tracking system/ bug tracking
system
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Did bug triage on different LibreOffice version
(Unconfirmed bugs, read comments, test bugs)

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LibreOffice bug triage/ Quality
Assurance(2)
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Read and understand contents of the issue
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Carry out procedures on the issue in your
environment and comment out the result
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Discover issues which does/doesn’t in your
environment
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Joined LibreOffice Quality Assurance team
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Prepared bug triage manual

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Tokyo Business Trip
(Oct.20-24, 2017)
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Visited iCRAFT Tokyo branch
– Had discussion with Tokyo branch manager, and
other staffs
– Learned business situation in Tokyo branch
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PC support, server & network
– Supports overseas business such as in Myanmar
Vietnam, and Mongolia
– Logistics support

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openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 /
LibreOffice mini conference Tokyo
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Attended the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017
– The speakers have been shown their good knowledge,
experience and practice in free and open source
software(FOSS) technologies

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openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 /
LibreOffice mini conference Tokyo (2)
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LibreOffice mini conference
– Opportunity to build FOSS/LO
community in Ethiopia (Lighting
talk)
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LibreOffice translation(LO
help and UI in Amharic)
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LibreOffice booth Tokyo

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Kansai Open Forum(Nov. 11, 2017)
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Did presentation about
FOSS projects in
Africa/LibreOffice status in
Ethiopia
– LibreOffice Amharic
translation
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Participated in iCRAFT
LibreOffice booth

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LibreOffice Easy Hacks
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Build LibreOffice on
Linux(Ubuntu)
– Install prerequisites
– Build dependencies
– Download source
code using git
– Build it: ./autogen.sh
– Make => Done!
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Get the source code

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LibreOffice Easy Hacks(2)
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Modify some code and rebuild the source code

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Configured Learning management
system
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Moodle- Learning
management system
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Configured Moodle
(Modular object-oriented Dynamic
learning Environment )

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Configured Learning management
system(2)
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Practiced how to
manage Moodle:
– Add courses,
– Assignments, quizzes
– Enter enrolled
students, participants,
– create account
– Assign a role
permission-
students,teacher

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Open source conference, Osaka
(Jan 27, 2018)
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Presentation about
LibreOffice development
activities
– About LibreOffice
– QA, bug triage
– Easy hacks and translation
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Participated in iCRAFT
LibreOffice booth

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NextCloud and Collabora online
Integration
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LOOL: LibreOffice online
– Cloud-based version of free office suite
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Building and development of LibreOffice
online
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Some troubleshoots:
– Errors: No database driver installed
– Forbidden access issue
– Internal server error

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NextCloud + Collabora online
Integration(2)
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Steps to do (1)
– Install web server(Apache), Php, MySQL-sever
– Install NextCloud
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Follow web-based interface to finish the installation
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Steps to integrate(2)
– Install docker
– Install Nginx HTTP server
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Setting up Nextcloud
– Apps→Enable collabora online
– Admin→ collabora online→ insert ip address of your server

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NextCloud + Collabora online(3)
http://192.168.255.160/nextcloud/index.php/login

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NextCloud + Collabora online(4)

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Other Activities during internship
period

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Ecology project Activity at Mt.Rokko
(Dec. 9, 2017 & March 3, 2018)
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Participated in Peace and Nature activity:
– Cutting ‘Nezasa bamboo’(clear & take care of trees)
– Working to protect soil erosion
– Tree Planting (to revitalize the forest at Mt.Rokko)

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Clean office at the year end (2017)
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Clean office and working environment
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Attended the company’s 3rd & 4th quarter meetings

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Participated in Ethiopia Investment
Promotion Seminar, Kobe
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Industrial park
development
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Investment opportunity
– Business opportunities
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JICA's Ethiopia
Industrial Development
Support

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Challenges
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LibreOffice bug fixing is a bit difficult (need more
experience)
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LibreOffice Amharic version is not working on
Windows but working only on Linux(Ubuntu)
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Troubleshooting during different SW
configuration
– Moodle, nextcloud + collabora online etc.

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Learned point!
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Real business working environment and time
management
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LibreOffice open source project, its components
and source code structure
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Culture and Knowledge sharing
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The importance of user feedback for open
source projects
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Linux fundamentals- commands and Linux file
system
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How to integrate Nextcloud with collabora online

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Conclusion
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I have been participated in different activities and
learned a lot! Which is beyond my expectation
during the internship
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Now, the activities have done according to the
schedule for this internship period, and I will
continue participating as a voluntary in
LibreOffice project!
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Finally, my excitement/feeling is at a high
equilibrium tension; to leave Japan and to meet
my family!

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ありがとうございました！
I Thank You!