Diego Búrigo Zacarão’s Weblog

Estava eu lendo alguns posts no planet.fedoraproject.org nessa semana e me deparei com um post do Paul Frields, atual líder do Projeto Fedora, que achei interessante “Oh, well allow me to retort.”. Fui até o blog dele para lê-lo, ao invés de ler no próprio planet. Quanto terminei e leitura me deparei com um botão de “Procurar” no topo da página. Pensei comigo: Será que o Paul vem falando sobre Transifex nos posts dele?

Procurar: Transifex [ENTER]

Para minha grata surpresa achei 4 posts relacionados. Comecei a ler um por um e, então, no terceiro post. Buhh… Quase caí da cadeira. Em *maio do ano passado* Paul havia feito um post inteiro falando sobre mim. Dá pra acreditar?

Lesser known contributors, Vol. 9 Issue 1.

In the tradition of Max’s “lesser known Fedora contributors” series of blogs from last year, I wanted to recognize people you may not know, who make an enormous difference in Fedora every single day. This is the first in a series that I’ll be highlighting around our Fedora 9 release, as a small token of gratitude for what these incredible people have contributed to Fedora, and continue to do so today.

I first met Diego Búrigo Zacarão through his work as a translator of the Fedora documentation on which I was working. Diego has always been one of the first translators to pitch in and get changes made for the Brazilian Portuguese locale, and would ask a lot of probing questions that really gave me an appreciation for how far Fedora reaches into other parts of the world. His participation and input gave me compelling reasons to learn a little about how the gettext toolchain worked, and how to make use of it while working on our Docs toolchain.

Not content to stop there, though, Diego has also become a key member of the amazing crew of Fedora Ambassadors for Brazil, whom you may have read about here in Greg’s blog (and elsewhere). Among his other contributions, Diego’s now working on Google’s Summer of Code for Transifex, our top-notch, upstream- and contributor-friendly translation toolset, and he’s developing university courseware in Brazil for open source topics. You can see more about Diego and the other Brazilian Fedora Ambassadors in this video from Red Hat Magazine. And if that weren’t enough, Diego is also now involved in the Fedora Websites team helping maintain their wiki pages and Brazilian Portuguese translations of the Fedora web pages.

I used to see him pop up in #fedora-docs, often as I was enjoying my morning coffee, and he would always be excited about new work going on in Fedora. And I can tell you firsthand, that excitement is contagious!

Thanks, Diego, for many jobs, well done.

Lembro-me quando entrei para o Projeto Fedora Brasil no início de 2006, com os primeiros passos do projeto. Nos referíamos ao pessoal do Projeto Fedora internacional como “eles”. Hoje “eles”, mais do que nunca, também somos “nós”. A comunidade cresce a toque de caixa, inclusive com participação pró-ativa dentro do projeto internacional.

Não há como explicar o movimento de toda essa massa, você começa a contribuir e quando vê, mal se deu conta que está envolvido completamente em pró do Software Livre. Mais do que isso, pessoas ao redor do mundo começam a acompanhar seu trabalho. A sensação? Indescritível!

Thanks, Paul, for your nice comments about me.