User:Igor

Igor Soares

Full Name: Igor Pires Soares Email: igor@projetofedora.org Google Talk: igorpsoares@gmail.com IRC: igorps @ #fedora-br, #fedora-latam, #fedora-ambassadors, #fedora-qa, #fedora-i18n and #fedora-l10n FAS: igor Languages: Brazilian Portuguese, English, Spanish Location: Belo Horizonte , Brazil Education: Bachelor degree in "Information Systems" at UFMG Blog: http://igorsoares.com

Fedora Projects Involved

• Fedora Ambassadors
• Fedora Internationalization
• Fedora Localization
• Fedora Quality Assurance
• Fedora Spins

Activities within Fedora

• Fedora Ambassador for Brazil and Latin America.
• Former Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee member for two terms (2010-2012).
• Worked on Fedora Quality Assurance for Localization (L10N) and Internationalization (I18N). (2010-2011)
• BrOffice.org Spin Maintainer (2008-2010).
• Former coordinator of Brazilian Portuguese translation team (2007-2009).

Events

List of major events I attended over the years:

• 13th International Free Software Forum (July/2012)
• 9th International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management (June/2012)
• VIII Latin-American Free Software Conference (October/2011)
• FUDCon Panama (May/2011)
• FUDCon Tempe (January/2011)
• FUDCon Santiago (July/2010)
• FUDCon Porto Alegre (June/2009)
• V Latin-American Free Software Conference (October/2008)
• 9th International Free Software Forum (April/2008)
• 8th International Free Software Forum (April/2007)

Articles and Papers related to Fedora

• Paper The Effect Of Collaboration On Knowledge Creation And Production Of Goods (July/2011)
• Article “A Tecnologia que Levou o BrOffice.org ao Fedora” to BrOffice.org magazine (July/2010)
• Article “Instalando o Fedora 8″ to Arquivo Linux magazine (January/2008)
• Article “Fedora 7 Rocks your Desktop!” to Linux+ magazine (October/2007)
• Article “Network Configuration in Fedora 7″ to Linux+ magazine (October/2007)
• Article “Managing RPM Packages″ to Linux+ magazine (January/2007)

i18n Development and QA

Internationalization support for preupgrade:

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562036

Tests days I organized:

• Fedora 16:
  • I18N Desktop
  • L10N and I18N Installation
  • L10N Desktop
• Fedora 15:
  • L10N Desktop
  • I18N Desktop
  • L10N and I18N Installation
• Fedora 14:
  • Anaconda - Translation and Keyboard support

Interviews

• Castalio Podcast: Igor Pires Soares - Fedora Project (July/2011)
• Red Hat Magazine: Meet the Fedora Ambassadors (April/2007)