Toward an understanding of the motivation Open Source Software developers
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Portuguese IT and LibreOffice open manual
Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication
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The success of Open Source Software (OSS), along with the importance that their communities have created around their project's and products (Ubuntu, LibreOffice, Android and CyanogenMod, etc) has recently attracted the attention of researchers and commercial companies. While the first ones are learning lessons from the success of OSS and applying some of them, the second ones are also acquiring knowledge. They are now more open minded and import the apprenticeship to develop their systems, implement it to their structure and even help to make them compatible with their products (like HTC, Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson do with CyanogenMod). These OSS communities are normally called communities of practice and they are a group of people who are informally bounded by their common interest and practice in a specific domain. The LibreOffice Portuguese Community has been in great growth and trying to answer the "The Document Foundation" (TDF) requests. The "real time" translations of the package and recently the development of the IT and LibreOffice Open Manual are examples. The author feels that it is time to make a short scientific analysis, through a reading of the creative processes and production, based on international scientific developments and conclusions. The objective of this paper is to make the first step of a study of how LibreOffice is contributing to the sustainable development in Portugal.