Approval Application for Japanese Team (ubuntu-jp)

Key Details

• Date - 21 July 2009

• Team Contact - Jun Kobayashi <jkbys@ubuntu.com>

• Membership - 8 active members and tens of volunteers as of 21 July 2009. (2 new members in this year)

  • One of our team member, Fumihito Yoshida, was approved for Ubuntu Membership in April.

• Mailing List - ubuntu-jp on lists.ubuntu.com with 1986 members as of 22 July 2009.

• IRC - #ubuntu-jp on Freenode

• Launchpad Page - https://launchpad.net/~japaneseteam

• Web Site - http://www.ubuntulinux.jp

• Web Forum - http://forum.ubuntulinux.jp

• Wiki Site - http://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp

Roadmap

• Spread Ubuntu in Japan - Increase the number of Japanese users involved in the Ubuntu community.

  • Continue running LoCo team resources: Web site, IRC (#ubuntu-jp), Mailing List (unbuntu-jp@lists.ubuntu.com), Web forum.

  • Hold local events for Ubuntu users four or more times per year.
  • Attend local FLOSS conferences four or more times per year.
  • Write articles on local magazines and web sites.
  • Advise more companies which plan to use Ubuntu for business.

• Meetings - Continue to organise regular weekly IRC meetings.

• Make Ubuntu better for Japanese users - Translate more applications, improve Japanese input support, and work to build up and provide a better Japanese language environment.

  • Continue to create and distribute Japanese Remix Desktop CDs.
  • Maintain jp.archive.ubuntu.com to update comfortably for Japanese users.

• Better relation ships with other FOSS communities - Expand cooperative ties with other Ubuntu and FOSS comunities.

  • Improving the relationship with Debian JP Project is most important

  • Encourage more of the Japanese LoCo Team members to become Ubuntu Members.

• Translate Japanese contents related Ubuntu - like "Ubunchu!"(see below)

Experience

• Regular IRC Meeting - We organize meetings in #ubuntu-jp on irc.freenode.net every Tuesday (13:00 UTC / 22:00 JST).

• Ubuntu Kaizen Project - We managed the Ubuntu Kaizen Project to manage bugs submitted in Japanese.

• Meetings with companies - We have talked about Ubuntu with some companies which are considering using Ubuntu for their business.

  • Hirose Electric Works, ltd. released "UBiL" which is Virtual Server Thin Client based on Ubuntu.
  • ATOK X3 (propietary Japanese input method software for Linux) supports Ubuntu 8.10 and Ubuntu 9.04.

• Ubuntu Offline Meeting Tokyo - We held two Ubuntu event for users.

  • In January and April meetings, we had install party, trouble shooting and seminars.
  • In April meeting, we held Ubuntu 9.04 release party too.
  • This event is co-sponsored by Hirose Electric Works, ltd.
  • We are planning to hold this event every few months.

• Japanese Ubuntu articles - We have written articles for following print and online local magazines:

  • Nikkei Linux August issue: "Ubuntu 8.04　effective utilization" / "How to grow Ubuntu"

  • "Ubuntu Linux Beginers Kit for 8.04 LTS"

  • Software Design: "First Review: Ubuntu 8.10"

  • Software Design: -Learning Unix Technology- "What is init daemon"

  • Nikkei Linux December issue: True face of Ubuntu 8.10 Server

  • Interviewd by local magazine "Kantan-Ubuntu"

  • "Software Design:Using software RAID on Linux"

  • "Install Ubuntu to your second homebuilt computer" for Nikkei WinPC which is a Japanese computer magazine published by Nikkei BP.

  • Software Design: Let's experience merits of Ubuntu - illustrate installation, leverage netbook, create variants -

  • "HP MIE Review" for a Japanese local magazine "Software Design".
  • "Ubuntu 9.04 Tettei Kaibou" for a Japanese local magazine "ASCII.technologies".
  • Team members talked about team's activity and Ubuntu community in ASCII Mediaworks' interview. This is described on a magazine "Sakusaku Ubuntu!" published on 27th May.
  • Team members talked about team's activity for a Japanese local magazine "Linux 100%".

  • gihyo.jp: Ubuntu Weekly Recipe / Ubuntu Weekly Topics (ongoing)

• Conference Attendance - We have attended following conferences:

  • Open Source Conference: as exhibitor and speaker

    • Open Source Conference 2008 Kansai / Open Source Conference 2008 Tokyo/Fall / Open Source Conference Sendai 2009 / Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Spring

  • Debian-Ubuntu BoF was held by Japanese Team and Debian JP Project on Japan Linux Conference 2008 (odp file for presentation)

  • Exhibited at the "Gathering the Linux Distributions" at Rakuten technology conference

  • We exhibited at the Kansai Open Source 2008

• Japanese Remix Desktop CDs - We create and distribute Japanese Remix Desktop CDs for each release of Ubuntu.

  • http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/news/kubuntu804-ja-desktop-cd

  • http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/News/ubuntu810-desktop-ja-remix

  • http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/News/ubuntu8042-ja-desktop-cd

  • http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/News/ubuntu904-desktop-ja-remix

• Ubunchu!

  • Hajime Mizuno, Fumihito Yoshida who are Japanese LoCo Members and Martin Owens who is US-Massachusetts LoCo Member got the rights to translate "Ubunchu", which is a Japanese Manga comic, into English in cooperation with the author Hiroshi Seo.

  • And it's translated to 11 languages.

  • http://seotch.wordpress.com/

  • http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/ubunchu-the-ubuntu-manga-is-now-in-english/

• Archive mirrors - We have deployed and maintain new archive mirrors in Japan with help of some organizations.

  • University of Toyama

  • K.K. Ashisuto