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It's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa and of course we're moving on with our program and first conversation of course as we earlier advertised talking about security or insecurity in the country a review of media reports by news outfit premium times has shown at least 103 people were killed by non-state actors in Nigeria in the last week and this is from March 6th to March 12th 2022 very grim statistics if you ask the review says that last week's killings indicate a massive increase of over 900% when compared with a previous week when 10 persons were killed 900% the figure of the previous week was the lowest in the year 2022 by the way out of the 103 people who were killed 24 were security personnel consisting of 18 soldiers and six police officers while remaining 79 were civilians now most of the killings occurred in KB state Northwest Nigeria where others were recorded in a few other states No incident was recorded in Zangfara state so called a state or Niger state which are arguably the epicenter of the banditry in the country Two persons were killed in Kaduna state to 82 in KB including at least 63 vigilantes from five communities Who were confirmed dead after bandits ambushed them on Sunday evening? Two days after the outlaws after the outlaws on Tuesday again killed 18 Soldiers and six policemen in the entourage of the KB state deputy governor Sumaila Sumaila Yumbe 12 deaths were recorded in Kaduna state Seven children reportedly killed in a stampede of residents fleeing from bandits in Shimfira that's in Jabiya local government area also in Kaduna state five passengers lost their lives while three others were severely Wounded when bandits open fire on a moving vehicle in Yan Tumaki That's in the on the Dan Musa Road on Saturday morning in August 8th yet to be identified as salants Also on Monday set ablaze the ballet of a low a buggera in a begotten of local government area Following the incident in KB state president Muhammad Abu Harini statement by his spokesperson Gabra she who condemned the killings the president while reacting to the incident vowed to put an end to the killings by Bandits in the northwestern part of the country. Well, the question is Can he and will he Very glad to say joining us this morning on breakfast is a security consultant ambassador dr. Whammy and Roy or he Dva. He's our guest on the program this morning ambassador Good to have you joining us today. Thank you. I don't know if I can still smile without your opening Narrative Thank you really sad indeed I'm so so so what I what I what's your answer to that question the president's is reacted by condemning the situation the incident in KB state really really sad one the The bandits held The secure operatives in a convoy of the deputy governor in a gun battle for two hours and more and When they left at least 18 of them we go The president has condemned it and he's vowing to Address the banditry in northwest which seems to have taken over and exceeded the insurgency in the northeast your thoughts on that Well To be Direct, let's try to really look at it directly Now if you see when you make comments as a president is there commensurate action now action in the sense that The the situation we found ourselves in Nigeria. We have since been talking about it We have been insinuating all the own on wholesome opportunities for politicians the Religious activities ethnic violence activities to influence security agencies, you know, even the judiciary has not even helped all the Institutions are comatose, you know It's only when you go to a butcher or you make a phone call To some certain persons that you can make some things happen in the country, you know So we if you if you want to follow the president's statement You are supposed to see appropriate recruitment processes for our security agencies You're supposed to see proper remuneration. You're supposed to see discipline for airing officers and agency personnel You are supposed to see a rich curriculum that is ready to articulate the current insecurity global insecurity You know, you are supposed to see logistics Properly applied, you know, and you are supposed to see promotion and control of deployment of personnel being in the hands of the responsibility of every agency the army the military the DSS You know, they should be in charge. Then you are supposed to see a judiciary that should respect judicial Expectations, you know a government that is people centered But that is not what we have that has brought us to where we are today that look at government chairman Obers a my village chiefs. They are now among in the criminality. They are complicit Some of them have been arrested, you know We have worship centers both the Imam and the Christians now you see pastors and imams being complicit in kidnaping and drugs You know, you see government personnel security agencies senior officers military police being complicit in kidnaping Financial fraud. So where do you think a government a president making such a statement should start from? He should start from making people accountable So you so you would say now because Let's even start from that part. I mean the issue of security for every time we get to talk about it One would say that we need to look at it the way it is in its real sense He affects everybody like everybody it has nothing to do with whether you're you belong to a certain political party PDP APC and what have you so And how would you describe the? Real issue right here because if you look at it the country as we are 36 states Including the FCT so you're saying 37 the security consents are not the same in different parts of the country So you have in the north is the issue of banditry kidnap and there, you know Boko Haram insorgency in that side and to other parts you have in the you know The southeastern region where you have iPop issues those who are agitating for Self-governance and then to different parts you have the issue of maybe banditry Farmer headers clash Kidnappings and what have you one or saying that the society should be entirely free of all of this crime But to some extent it should be safe. So how would you really really describe? What would you see the problem is with us being that if you look at the this current administration The president came on you know the grounds that he was going to solve the insecurity issues if you look at some of the issues security corruption and economy Seven years and counting it feels like we have gone back to I really don't know where we really are right now It's no longer safe babies are now being carried and because in some of this state I'm sorry that I'm taking long in some of the states for instance Just some days back. There's a baby who was in the dispatch You know box and taking around the area of Shungu Tendo But the president should we blame the president for that as well? So how do we really describe this problem that we're facing? What exactly is the problem here? Okay, I like you were not too long.  Now if you want to go a little back. That's also a safe time You will see that Nigerians got into politics and weaponized violence the first time we got into politics it was to break bottles snag baller bosses and Engrave the elbows of people that could cut me him, you know later We promoted them to call them Godfathers So they were the ones that we decide who becomes this and we started to destroy the Articulate and relevance of Inaq, you know, so ballot counting does not count anymore. It was truncated It was moved from one place to the other infused with negative bosses votes Then you now see politicians looking at hoodlums as their own armies Creating armies became a skill to be recognized as a good politician So when you can just blow a whistle boys coming and scatter everywhere didn't know we were creating a model Called political terrorism, you know, because we wanted to use policies to intimidate and cause fear So we created these hoodlums we and them we gave them superiority over security agencies Now it's cutting across the whole country remember no APC or PDP Nigeria now because they all move from party to party even after a party voted you into Office as a governor as a senator the next week is moving to another party.  So we have seen all of this and now we needed to discuss the gray areas. We agree as you said There's insecurity everywhere. So but we need to mitigate it. We need to call it. We need to put it on that rain Okay, so we need to discuss so if we want to discuss anything in security in the Niger Delta area We need to look for who can discuss who can represent the people And the people that were pushed forward to represent the North the South the East they were all scams They were interested in helping themselves Yes, come is a scum is a decoy a scum is it is deployed to confuse to misdirect You know, so these were people that came to a sorok any time any day came to a roundtable any time any day Discussing national issues but putting their personal interests in front so the people were not properly represented So gradually dividends of democracy pushed to the NDC did not get to the Niger Delta Go and look at the roads. Go and look at that dividends of democracy pushed to the North Could not get to the masses their marjorie militant and military Militant groups all of them grew up from 1999 Not just building a cattle quickly for you, you know, so all of these things grew up so the people became agitated And unfortunately for them these cabals that hold Nigeria that make decisions From a governor you become a senator from a senator after eight years Some are coming back to say they want to be a governor a president from there They go and be an ambassador. Okay, so they were looking for immunity for the misrepresentation they were doing Not knowing that the people agitation was growing Children started growing with disgruntled hats. So a bike man can carry a child A six years old can carry a gun 18 years old can use his mother for rituals because everybody has seen that there is no law and order Breakdown of law and order anarchy reigns and there's no institution to curb it So basically is the issue you want to say that it's not that we don't have what it takes to address the issue What is the fact that there's uh, you know, there's no willpower to Enforce obedience and make a risk. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you know, when I joined the Nigerian army I was I was so impressed if there is a traffic break Holdup somewhere and you just see a soldier come down with just his belt Everybody would just be themselves, you know, if you are taking to the police station You are begging because from the police station one or two evidence put together straight to court And you see a lawyer you respect a lawyer so much because you know that he stands for justice You know, I'll call my lawyer and you are begging the guy don't call your lawyer But nowadays all those institutions have dilapidated trust So the the the the erosion of trust Competency relevance is what we are now.  It's not the police fault. It's the institutions that are supposed to control them Look at abacare's case just as a small example Where is the office of the ig when a police officer was on social media was assuring affluence Where is the police service commission? Where are the areas? What about the military those generals that were caught with billions that you see them building buying houses in abuja Transferring wealth banks are supposed to know when setting amount of money move as a staff In the setting amount of money getting to your account. It's supposed to be blocked You are not supposed to get more than that, you know, so what happened to those financial controls ICPC all of those institutions So if we don't control the institutions make them accountable for people that default on policies regulations criteria to hold office then we continue to encourage the masses The youths the teenagers that are coming to visionize be like you interesting.  It has connected connecting dots to other issues in a larger country. You've talked about corruption. You've talked about discipline You've talked about morality Muhammad Abu Hari came to office in 2015 on expectations that being a Former general who has a track record of Fighting in discipline and the corruption will be a thing of the past She will talk about security He was the one who against the orders of the then president she will shagari chase mitasine into another country Child and it was ended in a few hours or days. Um, so this was expectation. What went wrong? well, um As a military officer If you give an order today For the next 10 years after you leave the orders distance There's a joke that some men were found Guiding a A molded chair in a barrack soldiers were guarding it Just a chair they clean it and they push there with their rifle It's a joke But someone came to finally ask why are they putting guards on a on a concrete chair? You know and they asked all the commanders and by the time they got to the commander that gave the instruction He said he put those soldiers there because the concrete was wet He wanted them to protect it So the military might the military discipline Was what um, president bohameda boharu was catching on not knowing that in the civil space in a democracy You needed your officers. You needed your action desk. You needed your institutions The nmpc the ministry of this the health sector the judicial sector You needed hams men to hold your vision of Insecurity no no crime. No corruption. No this no that you needed to place people there You cannot just be at asorok as the president and say there won't be corruption in Nigeria It's not possible. Why because every officer's have their cascading office roles So that was the first error that the president had to believe that if he comes in as a model of No corruption. No in security man of no nonsense. It will hold water It won't hold water. So people started to create insecurity in different places Insecurity are the world of the day and all you need to do is now to call somebody There was a time he called one ig to report to the Front lines. He didn't go. He was in abuja and nothing was done Those were the times that he he should begin to see That officers were relevant for your corporate vision. Okay, so let's look at it from this angle There's been a lot of argument about, you know, the personnel you have mentioned it and some people say that it's because we don't have enough personnel You know to police the entire country if you want to look at the number of police officers policing over 200 million Nigerians Or plus Nigerians. You're looking at 300 about 300,000 or plus And so that's not even enough according to the un recommendation we're hoping that you have You know 600 police at you know 601 police officer policing about maybe 180 or there about but in this case we're looking at One police officer policing about 600 persons. So the issue of you know, the manpower the strength is a major issue I would cite a typical example when the hashtag ends as protest started and those who hijacked the system Because of course the status is very peaceful process until you had some element who took over the entire protest in different parts of the state Yes, I was you know in the southern part of the country at that time And I put a call to you know the pier of police In the state and she said we don't have men. We don't have men. We don't have men the fire here You know there's nobody the police stations being set ablaze Apart from that the fact that they don't have men and I felt so sorry for myself Because I saw some persons who were going to set a feeling station ablaze And so there was so what what what could one do? So this is just the scenario saying that Could he also be that the reason why we're grappling with all of these insecurities that we don't have enough personnel In terms of police officers Well, in an emergency situation, you're supposed to make do with what you have It is proactive to begin to think of situations to put yourself that we call emergency situations It is reactive to begin to look for solutions when you are in an emergency Now we are in an emergency, but let me just take a cue from what you have said Look at there are people look the value of the officer Determines the number that you need ma The value now if I have 10 men and just three people can do the job of that 10 men Look at the the value of the remuneration of a police officer Not only the salary accommodation Look at the healthcare for his family things that will make him comfortable to To project himself forward now those are not there Then you begin to look at the logistics provided the current insecurity situation And the technological level that we should be executing right now We see it on tv. We see it on google, but it's not appropriately deployed in our policing in our military activities Okay Now you look at the quality of personnel after you look at the remuneration to attract the quality you want And I ask a simple questions These guys that you see driving logistics bikes that are intelligent enough these guys that are doing cyber crimes That are intelligent enough. Do you know how many Nigerian graduates that read criminology and security studies? Do you know how many university does criminology and security studies for five years and they graduate every year? Now if you take this number of people send them sms If you want to join the police, please meet us as also and so please take that number of people send them sms military Dss they will come out. These are graduates of five years. Maybe seven years if I would have us to strike Now these are people that are also riding the ladder These are people that are doing security in my company and so many other persons company that their brains are full of ideas But the opportunity to deploy it is is restricted now if you do that you have called the Fake recruitment system that is going on now. Do you know what's going on? They call one guy and say we are rukiting. Do you have people rank at a day or Or go from the east. Do you have people or go from Edo or from Yoruba land? Do you have people they send them people from their Nooks and crannies even if he's not educated enough even if he fails the exam You will hear he was brought by xyz person. Ah director of plus cv sent him. Oh that man You you need to read when you join the military or the police Make sure you read all the time and they put in these wrong pegs in wrong holes And you see a lot of them becoming Stooges boys to one madam like you saw carrying food for the woman and all those kind of things that are irrelevant To the level of insecurity and the required intelligence deployment of technology And wishful patriotism That is required anybody that went to invest in Nigeria to read criminology and scurvy stories for five years six years seven years If there is strike comes our star idea okrada is patriotic So but um just before I let kofi come in are you saying that the issue right here is not the issue of Numbers boys the fact that we've not been able to manage the numbers that we have is that what you're saying I said if you need We are talking about proactive and reactive. I mentioned that so now we are in reactive We are reactive So if you need men Now you need to look at what is the current deployment? How many men do you have? Have you had when there's an umbra election or where there's a election in goomba? You hear 3 000 policemen were deployed to the state. Have you heard that before? So why don't you hear 20 000 3 000 policemen? Do we have a proper Statistics of living officers that are good to go to be deployed in the front line Do we know how many we have or we are following the media Discretion we don't know so if you know how many you have you will not know if they are appropriately deployed How many did you say was following a governor 16 soldiers or whoever? What was statistics you mentioned? At those the numbers I travel a lot. I see governors in in canada I see governors in the u.s. I see people that hold office in buses in trains with me And I wonder why is it that we don't do this in our country if you are children school in Nigeria You will make sure the schools are good You will make sure there's security around where they go to school where they transverse If you also understand that you need to visit your village Your local governments that voted you into power at least twice in a month You will make sure that place as a criteria to hold office. You are not supposed to be in a butcher You will make sure your village is secured You know, you will make sure all of these things work if you are supposed to follow economy If you are supposed to follow the train that we built is not for the masses is for Nigerian citizens If you are supposed to follow that you make sure the fuel is complete all the time that there won't be stoppage on the road You know, so because we have removed our Our leaders from utilizing the opportunities they gave us to enjoy democracy It's like it like animal farm where some animals are greater than others. I like to like to interesting very dress analysis I like to share an experience of some persons. I know who traveled through the southeast Um on the 20th of february One of them very popular guy in podhakot is still missing as we speak. His name is steady easy Family is praying friends are praying for him to return home The next one is a very close person to me who traveled from podhakot to anambra to a village for a traditional marriage My heart was in my mouth Because I know it's in going on between the Um abia imo border and of course you go through that road to get to okie great The person moved from the altar at the family convoy moved from anambra to asaba Now on making the trip from asaba back to podhakot They had to go through the southeast because they realized that some roads were blocked by boys So they diverted all the cars diverted through a village villages through the bushes And if I show you the messages and the accounts and the talk the chat on the phone It was gory. We're just praying that she makes it back home in one piece There were reports of dead bodies seen on the street There were reports of a human heart being seen on the street. There was no report of a single policeman seen When they crossed him from imo state into river state, we shouted hallelujah Not a single policeman. Who did they see providing security in the southeast? Sir vigilante boys community boys Now there's there's there's a suspicion that the young man who has been looked for has been kidnapped So this community boys would stop the cars the bus they're driving the commercial vehicle and ask for money So they block the road so that you divert to the villages and ask for money and if you don't pay They cut the gun at you they are armed So we have an absence of police on the roads in all the almost entire southeast as we speak today And it's being run by community vigilantes and unknown government. What's what's the issue and how can we get out of this situation? Okay, you know the issue of the south is this just also You need to understand that it's escalating beyond control because right now children are seeing it as status school And my all my fear all the time because I talk to youths a lot. I talk to university students I talk to schools children If you build that mindset in that catchment of Nigerians, you are going to be in a big trouble Okay, so now in those north east areas I'm sorry Eastern shows that you're talking about What is the problem the problem now is people are saying they want biafra and all that What discussions are on the table on the side of the easterners? I have said it. What discussions are on the table? Who is discussing for you? Violence violence violence Look at the military veterans when we had all the Disguntlements when I came out of the military. I joined forces with those I see have articulate ideas to defeat the The maltreatments until date you have not seen a situation where they said retired military people took out arms We could we can we should okay with the level of Decadence people are dying every day our colleagues. We fought together. We survived. We retired from the military. They are dying But because of control there are articulate ways to interrogate all the grievances of the east I have had opportunities where Easterners got into the senate. There are opportunities where I'm from that area too So there are opportunities where we got into presidency What have we done to put some laws into place? We do the n d dc n d dc is used now to siphon money. There are cases already. We are not speculating You know, so if we have the violence Frontline is it going to help us? How many generations behind are we training to be violent? So I think that the discussion should be reawakened. The discussion should be By people that understand articulate interrogation of cases people that have mediation and consolation skills I am a fellow of the insta chartered mediation and consolation. I let them I did a lot of things You know, there are discussions that you could put forward Judiciary to hold ground the senate and the legislation to put in laws that we still benefit So, so you're saying we need to look at non-military solutions in the southeast? Non-violence Non-violent solutions quickly very quickly because of time the northeast Was the problem now the northwest is the problem banditry has exceeded terrorism very quickly the solution Well, we started to say we want to find out who people were but we failed We started to say we want to hold ground and refuse them to hoist flag We're failing to we started to say we want to do community resilience Which is to relate with the people get intelligence from the people But we are failing also because there are modes within the military the police and all other agencies You know, so I think that where we should start from from beginning to see what's going on is there are mineral resources in those areas Some of them are one of the reasons why this is being attractive. You remember the Niger Delta with the Oil and the oil wells and all that So if you look at the mineral resources, if you begin to put proper government regulations Resist this a mercenary kind of mining those minerals Refuse all these hoodlums to hold ground Rotate and mobilize the military police. Whoever nscdc you sent to those area Regularly so they don't become business owners in those places and penalize people found wanting So I will just steal a few second now. There's no way we talk about the issue of security or insecurity without looking at the security I mean the structure of policing Some people say the fact that we have a centralized Police structure is not helping Decentralize it less state control the architecture. Do you support this notion? And do you think this will help us? Bring peace and some sort of security So let me say state policing is being offered. I said as to say it I've said it in like seven years ago I'm still saying it till date state policing is fine. Okay, but We don't have responsible government that is going to remove its claws from the state police You know that we not use it to intimidate. We don't have responsible government that we motivate the state police to the level of Compliance that we expect. Let's take legal state for an example They were coming with all these their Internal system the legal states and security these guys that ride bicycles and wear these blue and you know, that system is dying You know, they have not imputed the right candidates. Then the teachers are not paid some state Staff members are not paid. How will you pay those that carry arms? We need responsible governors If you have reforms responsible governors, I will be interested in state policing We can't give a state government state police and it's not able to pay them Motivate them and equip them. It will be a disaster. Thank you so much for your time It's been very interesting having you on the program. Ambassador doctor oami and roi ohidi of here Is a fellow of the IIPS at some years also a security consultant and he's been our guest on The breakfast this morning apologies Thank you very much. Yes, um, but we've totally enjoyed your analysis. I hope to have you again soon And have a birthday in advance. Yeah, it's his birthday. All right. I don't know what the two of you plan to come All right, it's sort of breakfast. So we're back to talk some more right here on the program. Please stay with us


Okay, now we go with a few data about the project and before, I think we have to remember John McCrish, John passed away in early 2016, was a friend of many and it will be missed by the project. I think that John's heritage stays with us with the text of the manifesto that he wrote in 2010 and I thank John for the contribution to the project. He has been a friend of many and we will never forget him. I think we should applaud him and now to what we have done during the last 12 months in general and this is a map, countries in green are countries where TDF members are based. As you can see, we cover all of Europe, most of the Americas, quite a lot of Asian countries. Unfortunately, we are still not present in all of Africa but if people attend this conference and contributing to the project have not already applied for membership, I really invite you to do so and you can have the opportunity of speaking with membership committee members, one is Gabriele that has just entered the room, to ask what you need to do to become a TDF member. It is rather important because the Document Foundation is a member-based organization and only by growing the number of members we will grow the strength and the coverage of the Document Foundation. So this is something that I personally invite you to consider if you are not already a TDF member. And we, for the first time, we have a traditional annual report in TDF format. This year we have a printed version of the annual report. We have a number of copies, you can have a look and don't take it away but you can, if you are interested in getting it, you can buy a copy from Lulu. It's printed on demand and it's going to be shipped to your address. And as I'm thanking the members, I think we should not forget the people that donate to LibreOffice, to the Document Foundation. This is the trend of donations since we started accounting them in 2013. It's thanks to donors that we can have a solid infrastructure, that we can have a team that helps people in their daily activity, that we can reimburse travels of people attending conferences and so on. So of course, most donors are not in this room but I think that all people that are members of the project should be grateful to the effort of these people that mostly at download time give something to the project. Next, I want to thank and welcome, although some of them are not here, the new members of the advisory board. This year we had several new members in the advisory board. We had GNOME Foundation and KDEV. With this organization, we are exchanging the presence in the advisory board so we will probably help them in growing as much as they will help us growing the project. And it is important that open source project, free software project work together because only by working together, combining our efforts and helping each other, I think that we can help the growth of free software in general in terms of visibility, awareness and reputation. Most of the users around us are used to proprietary software and only by helping them to understand and educate them about free software we can grow our project. The next one is Canonical. I think that everyone knows Canonical is behind the Ubuntu project and Canonical is now a member of our advisory board and in this case it's very important as well because they help the outreach in businesses through their Ubuntu distribution. And last but not least of course, Free Software Foundation Europe. We have been to Berlin to their summit recently and it's again working with them and helping them grow and helping them keep on and advising them about their activity. I think that we can help ourselves in growing and getting a better space for LibreOffice in terms of penetration in the market. Of course announcements, we are now at LibreOffice 5.2 so during the last 12 months we had two major announcements, 5.1 and 5.2. This timeline gives you an overview of what has been done since the launch of the project in 2010. Of course if you look that with the developers' eyes you might question this kind of stuff I know but we don't have to communicate only to developers. We have to communicate to people that does not understand development and adding some clues to these helps people in understanding what the project has done during the last few years. So of course the picture is a lot more complex that this timeline is visualizing but this is intended not to communicate to you but to communicate to people outside the project. I think we will provide an updated chart. This is not updated to the last three or four months but this is the download trend. We have probably exceeded now 140 million downloads and of course if you look at the red line this gives you the cumulative number, the other ones are the monthly numbers. And thanks I think that the effort and the successful LibreOffice is the result of a combined effort of many components. Of course the first one are developers without a good product. There would not be any other activity that is deriving for the good product. On the other end I think we have been able to gain some traction from the media. I am going to show you some articles that have been out during the last 12 months and I think the positive outcome of this is I think that during the last 12 months the articles have reflected our message to media. So we provide some messages. Messages are about increased speed, increased robustness, stability. In other cases is about the user interface being incrementally updated and improved. And for the last version we insisted a lot on the business approach. So with 5.2 the message was that LibreOffice is ready for enterprise deployment. We perfectly know that enterprise deployments are a challenge because we enter an environment and an ecosystem where proprietary software is still more than 90% of market share. So I think that reading these kind of articles, of course these are only the titles but reading these kind of articles is helping companies and enterprises and organizations in reducing the number of doubts in deploying LibreOffice. In my activity in the local market, so in Italy, I use a lot what is being published on the media to help people that are deploying LibreOffice become more confident on their deployment. And I think this is an opportunity that everyone has got. If you read a nice article on LibreOffice, share it with your acquaintances. If you have a commercial objective, share with your customers. This is going to help everyone. We have to build a network of people that is confident about deploying LibreOffice because that is our best strength is word of mouth about deployment by people that is happy about their deployment. So these are the last ones and thanks to the Dutch Ministry of Defense that has sponsored that and to collaborate that has developed. The impact of the classification feature has been extremely well received by the media. It is quite important. Many, many large organizations will ask about this feature and today LibreOffice is capable of answering this request from enterprises and corporations. I finish with my partner and now it's Michael that will tell you a number of numbers that I don't understand but I know that are significant. Thank you, Talo. That's wonderful. This is my pet random selection as of very late last night of things that we've done last year. And I think this is a fantastic thing. I think Marcus isn't here, but I just want to pay tribute to his work here doing this crash report because it's been a long time since we haven't reported crashes and being able to get back traces out of these, not having to ask users to install the Windows debugger, set up the symbols, whatever, but just having a good statistical grasp of this, 17,000 or so crash reports already. Isn't that something to celebrate? Anyway, the good news is that we are fixing the top ones and it will just have a huge impact on quality. Obviously, we really want to improve the quality of LibreOffice as we go along. Here is another graph that's extremely pleasing to me, which is that our open regression count seems to have stabilized over the last year. So we have almost as many regressions as when we started the year and this is a great place to be because we also created a whole load of new features and shipped a whole load of new cool stuff. So to actually be relatively static is good and to see that trend coming down as something in the engineering steering committee, we watch this every week and try and agonize about it. So it's very, very encouraging and I was particularly encouraged to meet Aaron earlier and Aaron was like, oh, I just love fixing bugs. I just want to go and 10,000 to go, which is very, very encouraging. Unit test, of course, it's once you fix the bug, you want it to stay fixed. So it's also good to see the unit test coverage increasing and the number of macros and assertions and tests going up over the year. There is a whole load of really extraordinary work that's done primarily by Quaylawn but also other people in the team, just sort of beating back the perennial problems that come and bite us. So keeping the crash testing running and actually fixing the results of it. 92,000 documents were testing very, very regularly and making sure that they import, they export and to some degree that they validate. The covariate scan again, keeping the score out of the industry beating 0.00. We actually had a whole load of new issues recently which made this number slightly higher, which is good. So new tests and covariate showing up new interesting things.  We have a couple hundred of those in the last two release cycles. And life cycle improvements, code clean up, C++11, there's this whole load of things to make the code more beautiful, cleaner and readable and so on. We've done a whole load of things to try and make hardware acceleration more robust so that we pre-validate the or hardware drivers are actually going to work or at least we crash early and then disable them rather than waiting until later and crashing. So some good stuff to improve quality there. I think this last year has really been the year of continuous integration and I think we have Norbert at the back here to thank substantially for that. I'm making sure that the bill is constantly buildable, constantly releasable. It's absolutely fantastic. The CI stuff there and the hardware investment, I guess the CIS admins as well, Klopf is grinning there next to him, have set up some massive hardware infrastructure again funded by our generous donors to make this actually really, really work. And so it's now possible to push your code within a few minutes, half an hour, an hour to get an answer as to whether it runs really well and more importantly whether all these tests run on it. So we have had a whole suite of tests. You could run make check for years but they've not been the most reliable things in the world and some of the really nasty bug fixing there. Again, Red Hat, Michael Stahl and actually Armin, Tib have done some great stuff with Stefan to sort of wheel out these horrible race conditions, these nasty bugs, these weird locking problems to make those tests reliable and that goes together to make CI just incredibly better than it has been in the past. And a quick plug at the bottom for this Dev Central website that shows you some of this hidden infrastructure that perhaps you didn't realize was there and helps you get into LibreOffice development. So pretty. Then we've got some features. So we've obviously got a big focus on quality but also we like our features. I think Vitali raved about this earlier. He missed out core, however, which is terrible because this is a new and off in innovation, aha, yeah, here. So there we go, good man. So classification is good fun. And for those who don't understand what classification is, because I didn't understand it either, it uses cryptography but only to sign documents. Okay, so there's no DRM, there's no not able to get at the document unless you're magic, but you can prove that it has been signed off to be of a certain classification level. So it's very nice, at least that's my understanding. McLosh will give you the full details later. Yeah, I like this one because it's pretty. I suppose we should have included some of these nice 3D transitions, lots of open GL, acceleration, optimization, robustness work around that. One of the perhaps underloved areas of the project has been our help and documentation. So it's fantastic to have Olivier and I'm sure Florian will tell you all of his good work later. But working with I think Kendi and Regina and Jay and others have resurrected and improved this help authoring extension so that now it's easy to write your help. So when you've written your feature, please also write your help. See, Olivier, I'm sure he has a talk on this later. And also just some really nice stuff to help get people involved with the help, sending feedback online and so on, adding various functionality there. As I mentioned earlier, this is a completely random selection of things. I can't show you everything we did, but it seems pretty clear to me that Ika from Red Hat and Winfrey have done a fantastic job adding formulae and fixing formulae in all sorts of corner cases and making this just much more insroparable and consistent and beautiful. And Thomas has been doing some of this regression line stuff and charting and complex formulae analysis and wrapping. I don't know, Lauren's been doing good stuff. And here are the people that have been doing it. So this is individuals. So every month we analyze who committed and this goes up, I'm afraid, only to the end of month seven. I should have remade the numbers. But the punch line is we have around 80 people or so individuals, unique individuals committing every month. And here's how they break down. So you can see who they work for on the top. Assigned, incidentally, just means you've signed a copyright assignment. Or not a copyright assignment. You've sent your message saying, yes, I really agree with your license. We actually track that behind the scenes and hopefully Klopp manages the wonderful database of everybody to make sure that we really know what the rights are around the code. And we're doing this in a way that everyone has signed up for explicitly. So those are the people. So it's really good. So the great thing about this is there's a huge number of volunteers, which is probably the green magic here, which is fantastic. And they actually produce really quite a lot of commits too. It varies, I guess, depending on season. But in terms of commit volume, so this is the commits per month by affiliation as well. And you can see we get around 1,500 commits a month or so. And you can see how it breaks down there between the various people. For any aspiring volunteers who want to take on his mantle, his role, the blue at the bottom here, parallax, it's just one guy half time. That's Noel Grandin, so you know. And he's coming to work for Calabra. So there's a hole there. So you could be that guy, that's fantastic. Doing lots of clean up and awesome things with an automated testing and clang plugins and validation left and right. What else? So it totally talks about user experience as a key thing. And so I'll show you some of the user experience changes we've had. There's just been a huge amount of work around sidebars and toolbars. You'll have seen some of these if you use a recent LibreOffice and the changes and improvements. So for example, there's a laser thingy here, is there? It can kill people, excellent. So this guy here, being able to see which end of your lines, which are gonna get this much more compact. So you can show more in the sidebars, very nice. I can't remember even all of the things that have gone here. But all sorts of properties, better slide transitions, better arrangements of everything. Separate UX things. So some template manager things. This is brilliant to have this fixed, because this was a bit of a nightmare having a very old and ugly template management thing. And also the new and beautiful one. And yeah, so unifying those and making it look pretty is fantastic. Find and replace. You can now hide all of this stuff at the bottom. So your average user never needs to know that there's a regular expression mode because that would frighten them. Don't frighten users with too many options before you've taught them to love them. So again, a nice work there. Even more work on user experience. Bubbly has done some fantastic mentoring and being her fingerprints all over this with Yusuf as well. Just improving this sort of thing. Look at this nice pallets of things to insert that look more familiar and really, I think, preparing for the notebook bar future. So this is my last slide. So there's some other bits going on. LibreOffice Online, there's lots of work going on there. I'll talk about that in a few minutes. There'll be several talks through the conference about that as well. But this is a horrible subset of work. If you don't see your name on a slide, that's because I forgot to put it there. And if you don't see your feature, that's very normal. Most other people didn't either. My apologies in advance for missing yours out. But I just want to say thank you. I mean, I do very, very little of this work. I just stand here and talk. But there are people out there just putting their love and passion and sweat and blood and tears and debugging late at night to find that missing semicolon. And they're doing awesome, glorious things. And thank you so much for all the documentation, the translation, the help, all the good things that people put in. So you're rock. And that's me. So hello also from my side. I actually love this kind of traditional state of the project talk because it gives the opportunity to show what has happened. We've seen numbers from Italo. We've seen development and features from Michael. And I'd like to talk from my administrative point of view a couple of projects that have happened. And introduce you, first of all, to our team. Michael Italo has mentioned we have lots of generous donors. And they enable us to run projects and to have people working on them. And I'd like to give a picture to the name and tell you what our team has been working on in the last months. So first of all, we have met already Sophie. First and foremost for this conference, Sophie is the gateway between TDF and the local conference organizers. I think you have been running conferences since, I don't know, a decade or so. We met actually at a conference 10 years ago. So she's organizing all the bits and pieces, getting things together, helping the local organizers, organizing travels. And many of you know Sophie.  And Sophie is quite active in the native language community, helping them, guiding them, assisting them with all tools, with all resources that we have, answering questions. So, yeah, that's Sophie. Then Italo, you already have seen and heard him. Obviously Italo is doing marketing for TDF. And he's our main marketing contact, doing press releases, media outreach, organizing the local press release workflow that press releases get translated, get sent out, manages the journalists mailing lists so we can have a good outreach to the media. If you're a TDF member, you get a nice newsletter each month sent by Italo. He also volunteered for working on the budgets that we have started this year, the marketing and the community budget. Italo is organizing and coordinating that. He set up the certification program for TDF and a couple of other things that's done by Italo. Then also quickly mentioned was Kloff sitting here in the back. He's primarily our release engineer and the guy ensuring that the bills reach the mirrors that you can download them. Also, these with the app stores to get our apps out. They are Kloff's also quite active in infrastructure at the moment running info operations. Primarily the developer infrastructure, Garrett Jenkins, Buxilla and the like. Website, Superstripe, that's also Kloff and all other sorts of things. Basically Kloff's always around when there's something to do. Couple of new faces. I'm not sure if Haiko is here yet. Oh, sitting right in front of me, sorry. So Haiko is quite new to the team. I think since May working on user experience has been volunteering on that before and working on the user interface running the UX meetings, service doing research, doing everything to make the user experience in the UI of LibreOffice better to sum it up. We have a design block that's run by Haiko. He triages UX bugs so we can be more effective and move forward all UX related topics within LibreOffice. Then shortly after the last conference, Jan joined to mentor new developers to help get people on board it, to reach out, to work on easy hacks, to introduce them, to Garrett how the patch workflow works, to take them by the hand and help them to get involved. And that's quite helpful. He's working also on some developer bits on infrastructure running Hackfest, doing everything to make developers feel welcome, feel appreciated and give them the support they need to contribute in the best way they can. Early this year, Olivier started. He's Olivier, he's responsible for documentation that contains of course writing documentation, organizing the workflow, onboarding volunteers running the meetings. But also I think we've seen a screenshot of that before work in the help system is carried out to make that easier. There's a wiki and online help that those are all bits and pieces that Olivier is working on the workflow on the tooling side as well on the content and getting volunteers involved and that of course involves style guides, templates, all sorts of things to make people working on documentation having an easier life. Then there's a nice guy with a camera. Actually sitting there, Mike, he also joined early this year supporting Italo in marketing. Mike is publishing regular interviews on the blog. He's feeding all social media channels. He will probably ping you at the conference because you're right now working on a community video I think. So he wants to get some quotes, some statements from people contributing to LibreOffice present that. And he also created the nice feature videos to introduce what's new in a specific version of LibreOffice. That's the work Mike is doing. Lots of flyers, brushes, and a very successful month of LibreOffice contribution that we ran in May. And I think where we run in October or November. November, so stay tuned with that. So that's Mike. And then new in the team is Xesco. Are you here? Yes, Xesco is here. He will be working on QA, triaging bugs, be responsible for a bugzilla instance. Also, that's, as you see, is part of everyone's role to onboard new volunteers to work with the community, to optimize the workflows, to run QA meetings, of course, bug hunting sessions. We have been running regularly ahead of new major versions. That's stuff Xesco is working on. And of course, a Bible-secting and stress-testing LibreOffice Xesco has just started. And then, yeah, I'm trying to get all those bits and pieces together. And that's my role with TDF. Enjoy a lot of working with the team. We have, I think, a great team doing all sorts of things, very dedicated, very passionate about what they do. And that's what I appreciate a lot. Those are the people. And now a couple of things, just a random selection, what we have been doing in terms of projects, what's still running, what we have been achieving in the last months. So Italo has mentioned the advisory board has grown with four new members, which is great. The advisory board is the entity or the part of TDF for corporations to support, to exchange with the board, to fund, to get in touch with us. And that has grown, which is good. Sophie has been working on translating ledges. TDF is about transparency, and we try to give as much transparency as possible on the donations, on how we use the money. So we have actual ledges published and translated in the wiki. Then we have come up with a nice annual report, as Italo has shown this time, also in printed version. And you can download it, where we show what we have been doing in 2015, with lots of tags, lots of pics, statistics, covering all aspects of the project. Quite unknown yet is, if you want to have more merchandise, and you can get here at the conference, there's actually a merchandising store, where we have, I think, T-shirts, caps, covers for mobiles, and all sorts of things. And we constantly update and grow that. There is a store we can show you appreciation and support for LibreOffice, and can get some materials. If you have a nice project that you would like to run, and have ideas and have people to run it, and just need to funding, there's a grant request option, a couple of requests that we have funded in the past, certain trade shows, certain events to attend. Dashboard, that I'll talk about in a second, was part of a grant request and a couple of other things. So if you have an idea that is not yet in the budget, we have the options of working with grant requests, so TDAF can assist you with getting funds for projects you would like to carry out. In terms of budgets, Norbert mostly has been working on not only the infrastructure, but also the budget. This year we started to have a couple of buckets, like a community budget, a marketing budget, infrastructure budget to have an easier approval of expenses if that fits into one of those categories. And within the next weeks we will start ahead of time to do that for 2017. So local communities can make proposals what they would like to have funded, which events to attend, what materials to produce, so we can create the buckets accordingly and have hopefully rather streamlined refunding and payment process. Then of course, that's new since the last conference, in February a new Board of Directors started, is in place, has been elected by the community, and just today you will get an announcement if you're a TDAF member for the election of the membership committee. The candidates have been nominated and then the election will start tomorrow and run for a week, so you will get the credentials during the conference and please don't forget to vote. On that, the team has grown, we have five new names, I introduced just all of them to you, so TDAF itself is growing as well, and part that has been growing is the infrastructure, Michael mentioned it, lots of machines to do I think continuous integration and what sort of, I don't understand that kind of stuff actually. So lots of developer infrastructure has been set up to cope with the growing demands that we do have and what we have, a nice detail, we in the last days updated the statutes to have more proper English translations so you can read into the detail of TDAF. And from the marketing side, TDAF itself has a shiny new website since I think February, March, so we also have our business card and that in a nice decent design with a new block that features regular contributor interviews, the month of the LibreOffice contribution as mentioned and the newsletters that we do provide to our members. And then there is a couple of projects we don't run ourselves but we invest in and one thing is for the translators, for the localizers, the Poodle instance, there is an ongoing work where about 50, 60% have been carried out already to get new features, to get better performance, to get needed tools, I think like importing reasons for duplicates and whatnot to ease localizers' lives. That's something that we have been contracting the Poodle developers and of course will provide upstream for the wider Poodle community to participate. A dashboard is currently in the works and I was promised to get an updated link this week where we guard our statistics out of a Buxilla, out of Garrett and can extend by a couple of other services to see the activity, to illustrate the activity and to see who is contributing what, which will in the end also help our membership committee to do their work. Another item we fund is Askbot which is quite popular in user support I have learned and we invested a lot into getting multi-language support into getting localizations, a couple of features that we required because we have, as you can imagine, a rather heavy user base and lots of languages deployed. This is also funded upstream and then made available to the wider Askbot community. A couple of tenders are currently carried out that will make the Code of Libre Office better, provide new features, you see the list here and of course last but not least, the Document Liberation Project is quite prominent these days because the library behind it, the library DLP provides, is used by a couple of rather famous free software products which is amazing to see that the work that we do is shared with others which I think is a very integral part of open source and free software. So much to that and I see that there's a slide coming up by Klopp in detail on the new release that you're gonna do now. So Klopp, you join. I have to thank you. Thank you, you're all great. Thank you very much. Great to be here, thank you. And if I'm not mistaken, we're gonna do a live release right now, is that true? So you can be part of an actual release taking place. Okay, so we just by chance when we realized that we could release 5.2.1 at the conference, we decided to have kind of live release. So there is a big red button that I will not press because it's nothing happens automatically. So there's Klopp working there to make this live and then I will distribute the announcement on the usual channels. People will see them just after this. The opening session. I think all the non-developers should thank developers for keeping the pace of one release every month during the first few months of a major release of the major release cycle and keeping LibreOffice improving really on a monthly basis. Of course, 5.2.1 is not specific and breaking new feature is, as usual, what is correcting bugs and getting rid of regressions that were introduced, of course, not intentionally with 5.2. And I really invite all the non-developers to make an audible thanks to developers because that has been our main strength for the last six years and I think it will be our main strength for the next years to come. If LibreOffice has gained its role in the market, I think it is because we have a really exceptional group of developers, here there is, let's call them the core group, but there are many others outside during, it is just a curiosity, but in November, the number of developers that committed at least one commit for LibreOffice since September 28, 2010 reached the number of 1,000 and just by complete chance, 1,000 first developer was Jan Iversen. This is really, I mean, it's a total coincidence, but this is what was funny because it then started as being the mentoring new developers coming in, so let's call it as a sign of destiny that is the first one to exceed the 1,000 number, which is, by the way, a very significant number. We, it's now, we are over 60 months and probably even more of continuous attraction of new developers, which I think for a free software project is a real achievement because we have never had a single month without any new developer joining the project. Lowest month was December 2013 with three new developers, but we have always had more than three new developers per month since then, which I think is outstanding and therefore from my side and I think from all non-developers, a big applause to developers.


What is going on guys, welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here. Today I am back with another Destiny 2 video and today I bring you what I thought was public knowledge but clearly this is not the case as I'm asked about 50 times a day and that is how do you get the world line zero catalyst and how do I progress once I have the catalyst but today guys I have all the answers but remember people if you'd like to support the channel you can by hitting that like button as it seriously helps me on my channel out and I do appreciate that support also if you're new around here and want daily Destiny content and unlike anywhere else be sure to subscribe. Ok so the world line zero is a weapon you are rewarded for collecting 35 of the Mars latent memories which I have a guide on every single one so if you are still looking for some and you are struggling follow the link within the video description to all locations once you have 35 you go into the last sector near Braytech Futurescape and basically collect it via a loot crate once you have this exotic sword you can then upgrade it to a masterworks version but firstly you need to find the catalyst the masterwork version adds another perk to the sword cooled another dimension this reduces the activation time of the tesseract which is the exotic swords intrinsic perk basically a teleport swipe which destroys but there is a cooldown though and this masterworks perk reduces that cooldown but to get the masterwork like I said you first need to find the catalyst to get the catalyst which isn't the easiest you have to defeat enemies on Mars now I have heard people say you don't have to have the sword equipped but for me and all my mates who have obtained the catalyst we were all using the sword at the time of it dropping now it hasn't been confirmed either about the planet you may well indeed drop an IO Titan Earth Mercury or Nessus but again I've only heard reports of it dropping on Mars enemy for me drop clean hive within the escalation protocol but I did read on Reddit somewhere that it dropped for someone within the last sector on Mars and the enemies in there were couple but for me and my powers people it's always been hive enemies either via the escalation protocol or public events on Mars I can also confirm as well that the catalyst can go to your postmaster as it happened to me I actually saw the catalyst on the floor but due to not being apart host and calling it too late I was taken to orbit before I could retrieve it so by accident people I can confirm that it does go to your postmaster as you can see on the screen now so once you have the catalyst it states for the objective how to unlock this upgrade is shrouded in mystery well I know exactly how you do this though it isn't mystery at all so each week the escalation protocol brings a different final boss who appears at level 7 in order to gain percentage on his upgrade which is 20% a time you have to use the sword in defeating the level 7 boss once he's shield is down land as many hits with the tasterx special move on the boss as you possibly can now I have seen numerous supports of gaining a percentage and the masterworks objective bar after numerous hits to the level 7 final boss and some report gaining a notification on item pop up on screen some say took one hit others say numerous hits so at that level 7 boss guys vaju just hit him as many times as you can because it seems as though RNG plays a big role in this popping up now you only gain 20 per week guys so once you've gained that 20 percent towards the objective bar you will have to wait until the following week to gain more percentage towards the end goal of 100% so I'm told to people it will take five weeks to complete so let me sum this up for you quickly and clearly once your catalyst has been obtained by killing hive unmask via the escalating protocol or public events apply the catalyst to your world lines of your sword once it's applied you then need to land hits on level 7 boss in the escalation protocol number of hits is believed to be an RNG basis so it could take one hit it could take 10 I've only heard reports of it popping up after the tasterx attack has been used you can only progress 20 per week towards the masterwork version so I'm told to people it would take five weeks to complete once it's complete you will receive an extra perk on a worldline zero called another dimension and this reduces the activation time of the tasterx attack and that is it guys and yeah I know there will be comments down below from people saying they have farm mars for ages with the sword and had no luck I feel you guys although you may not like this I actually had the catalyst dropped within two minutes of farming it but another note it took me ages to find the crimson catalyst but yeah guys do what you gotta do if you want it bad enough it will drop here in the end but on that note guys I am out I hope you enjoyed the video if you did leave me about truly just help me out thanks as always for stopping by people and hopefully I will see you on that next one


What's up everyone take down here. I just wanted to take a minute to say Merry Christmas I hope you guys are enjoying your holidays for me I have been enjoying my holidays because technically they started for me December 13th until this past Sunday the 22nd because since I started my job in May I was unable to take any of my vacation time in the summer, so I took it out in December I was off 10 days the week before Christmas and I know I'm gonna be working Christmas Eve Christmas and New Year's So I decided to take my vacation time right before Christmas to kind of enjoy it and to enjoy some time off So I am gonna be working Christmas So I'm making this video in advance But I just wanted to say thank you all for being part of my channel Merry Christmas, and I hope you guys enjoy your holidays