The document summarizes Mohamed Trabelsi's 6-month internship at iCRAFT Corp in Japan as part of the JICA ABE Initiative program. During the internship, he contributed to the LibreOffice project through activities like bug triage, translation work, and attending open source events. He also assisted on a network management project for a Canadian academy and participated in regular office activities. Trabelsi felt he learned a lot about respect, communication, teamwork and technical skills from the internship experience.

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JICA ABE Initiative program
Internship company
iCRAFT Corp
Participant : TRABELSI Mohamed
Duration : 6 months
Country : Tunisia
Internship Final Presentation

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Content
● Introduction
● LibreOffice activities
● Canadian Academy Project
● Daily and regular office activities
● Conclusion

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Introduction
● JICA ABE initiative participant:
– During 1 Year 4 selections ( Documents screening, English(TOEFL) &
Math tests, Interview with JICA, Interview with University)
– 2 years Master Degree in Information Systems at Kobe Institute of
Computing
– 6 months Internship at iCRAFT Corp.
● Learn from Japanese companies professional life
● Open Source (LibreOffice) Development

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LibreOffice Development
● Involved to many activities and contributing to develop
LibreOffice project:
– Bug triage
– Translation project
– Easy Hacks
– LibreOffice Online
– Attend Open Source conferences and events
– Assist interns at iCRAFT office.

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Bug triage
● Part of Quality Assurance
activity
● Confirm and prioritize bugs
– Through Bugzilla platform
– After testing and reproducing the
bug
● Main operations:
– Prioritize bugs
– Check bug duplication
– Regression tests
– Crash reports

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Bug triage (2)
● There were many challenges while performing bug triage like OS
versions or complicated steps to follow for reproducing the issue.
Triaged
Bugs
Commented Attached Confirmed
New NeedInfo Verified-
Fixed
Resolved-
Duplicate
Resolved-
NotABug
Resolved-
WorksForMe
Resolved-
WontFix
33 33 2 23 2 2 3 1 1 1

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Translation project
● Main project components created in English
– LibreOffice UI, Help, Website, Android, iOS…
● Pootle platform used for translation
● LibreOffice master-UI
– French 100% translated
– Arabic 86.2% translated
– Number 2 contributor of translation to Arabic
● 645 Suggestion and 49 are translated
● Test Arabic local versions and fonts
● Some strings take few days to find appropriate equivalent words in Arabic

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Easy Hacks
● Starting points for a new developer on LibreOffice project:
– Clone and build LibreOffice source code
– Customize LibreOffice logo *svg format as initial activity
– Find an easy bugs to fix and understand it
– Look for similar bugs for guidance
– Locate target code and understand it
– Perform updates to fix the issue
● This step still under challenge

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LibreOffice Online
● Implement Collabora Online (LibreOffice Online) integrated
with NextCloud:
– Install and configure Docker and Nginx
– Without domain name (using localhost)
● Faced many challenges like firewall settings, IP address
settings, NextCloud version and Collabora Online version

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Attend Open Source/LibreOffice events
● OpenSUSE.Asia Summit 2017/LibreOffice Mini-conference
2017
– Including a visit to iCRAFT Office in Tokyo
● Kansai Open Forum Osaka 2017
● LibreOffice Hackfest January 2018
● Open Source Conference Osaka 2018

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Assist interns
● Support two student interns to perform bug triage:
– Provide Bug triage Manual
● Including English and Japanese language
– Brief explanation and introduction
– Some guidance examples
– Look for a list of easy bugs to test
– Confirm and push comments together to Bugzilla
– Attend evaluation meeting and interview

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Lessons Learned from LibreOffice Development Activities
● Experience community life from
inside
● Quality Assurance -Bug triage
– Test techniques and environment
management
● Translation project
– Find meaningful description in
Arabic
– Respect of used functions and
features
● Development -Easy Hacks (still
challenging)
– Clone and build an Open Source
Project
– Locate and target a code block
● Open Source/LibreOffice events
– Promoting LibreOffice
– Rise awareness about Open Source
volunteering
● Communication means (mail list,
telegram groups, IRC channel…)

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Canadian Academy Project
● Network Management project
– Contribute to proposal document
– Attend meetings with Canadian Academy Headmaster and Director of
IT
– Site visit and infrastructure initial inspection
– Prepare monthly report English version template
– Review and learn about some used services and technologies
– Network Manager and leading upgrade project.

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Daily and Regular Office Activities
● CSR activities with Peace and Nature
● Office greetings
● Destination schedule board
● Weekly meetings
● Trimester and new year meetings
● Interviews and tasks meetings
● Lunch time, card games and fitness
● Souvenirs and trip presents
● Some formal documents content.

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Conclusion
● 6 months of progress and knowledge
● Learned a lot from internship at iCRAFT Corp
– Respect, Communication skills, organization, timing, volunteering and
CSR contribution, teamwork…
– Technical skills, Open Source Community activities
● Biggest challenge was and still language
● Great to work in this friendly environment with kind people
● Looking forward to spending more time as a colleague.
Thank you for the wonderful time
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