Approval Application for Japanese Team (ubuntu-jp)
Key Details
Date - 16 June 2011
Team Contact - Jun Kobayashi
Membership - 10 active core members and tens of volunteers as of 19 June 2011.
- One of our team member, Nobuto Murata, was approved for Ubuntu Membership in Jan 2011.
Mailing List - ubuntu-jp on lists.ubuntu.com with 2640 members as of 19 July 2011.
IRC - #ubuntu-jp on Freenode
Launchpad Page - https://launchpad.net/~japaneseteam
Web Site - http://www.ubuntulinux.jp
Web Forum - https://forums.ubuntulinux.jp
Wiki Site - https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp
Roadmap
Spread Ubuntu in Japan - Increase the number of Japanese users involved in the Ubuntu community.
- Continue to organize regional meetings.
- Attend local FLOSS conferences four or more times per year.
- Distribute Ubuntu CDs at events.
Continue running LoCo team resources: Web site, IRC (#ubuntu-jp), Mailing List (unbuntu-jp@lists.ubuntu.com), Web forum.
- Write articles on local magazines and web sites.
- Advise more companies which plan to use Ubuntu for business.
IRC Meetings - Continue to organise regular weekly IRC meetings.
Make Ubuntu better for Japanese users - Translate more applications, improve Japanese display and input support, and work to build up and provide a better Japanese language environment.
- Maintain jp.archive.ubuntu.com to make Japanese users update their ubuntu system comfortably.
- Continue to create and distribute Japanese Remix Desktop CDs which supports Japanese input even in live session.
Better relation ships with other FOSS communities - Expand cooperative ties with other Ubuntu and FOSS comunities.
- Maintain cooperation with Debian JP Project.
Deepen exchanges with other FLOSS communities including LibreOffice, Linaro, Android, etc.
Deepen exchanges with Ubuntu users in other countries
Encourage more of the Japanese LoCo Team members to become Ubuntu Members.
Experience
Experiences from 22 July 2009 to 19 June 2011.
Meetings - We organized events for Ubuntu users.
- Ubuntu Offline Meeting Tokyo 9.08
- 1 Aug 2009 at Hirose Building, Akihabara, Tokyo.
- Organized by Ubuntu Japanese Team and Hirose Electric Works, Ltd.
- Ubuntu 9.04 install party, seminar sessions and lunch party.
- 70 participants.
- Ubuntu Offline Pre-Meeting Kansai 10.08
- 21 Aug 2010 at ASTEM, Kyoto.
- Seminar sessions and lunch party.
- 30 paticipants.
- Ubuntu Offline Meeting Kansai 10.10
- 30 Oct 2010 at ASTEM, Kyoto.
- Seminar sessions and lunch party.
- 40 participants.
- Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party Tokyo
- 6 Nov 2010 at British Pub HUB, Akihabara, Tokyo.
- 68 participants.
- Ubuntu Offline Meeting Kansai 11.03
- 19 Mar 2011 at ASTEM, Kyoto.
- Seminar sessions and lunch party.
- 40 participants.
- Participants donated 55,000 yen in total for TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami victims.
- Ubuntu Hour at Tachikawa, Tokyo.
- Held 10 times.
- Ubuntu Offline Meeting Tokyo 9.08
Conference Attendance - We have attended following conferences.
Open Source Conference 2009 Nagoya - 22 Aug 2009 at Nagoya.
Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo Fall - 30-31 Oct 2009 at Tokyo.
Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo Spring - 26-27 Feb 2010 at Tokyo.
Open Source Conference 2010 Sendai - 22 May 2010 at Sendai.
Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai@Kyoto - 9-10 Jul 2010 at Kyoto.
Open Source Conference 2010 Nagoya - 7 Aug 2010 at Nagoya.
Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Fall - 10-11 Sep 2010 at Tokyo.
Open Source Conference 2011 Tokyo/Spring - 4-5 Mar 2011 at Tokyo.
Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kobe - 16 Apr 2011 at Kobe.
Open Source Conference 2011 Sendai - 21 May 2011 at Sendai.
Open Source Conference 2011 Hokkaido - 11 June 2011 at Sapporo.
Meetings with organizations - We have talked about Ubuntu with some companies which are considering using Ubuntu for their business.
- Minoh City - We adviced Minoh city to deply Ubuntu LTSP environment to teachers' room in common schools.
- Ashisuto
Team Reports - We have submitted the summary of our activities to TeamReports page continually.
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 manage the Ubuntu Kaizen Project to handle bugs submitted in Japanese.
Japanese Ubuntu articles - We have written articles for following print and online local magazines
- Ubuntu Magazine Japan - The first Ubuntu specialized magazine in Japan. We wrote articles for them.
- Serialized in 176 articles as of 15 June 2011.
- Serialized in 172 articles as of 18 June 2011.
Ittoke! Ubuntu DoJo! - Conversational style articles on ascii.jp
- Serialized in 44 articles as of 9 June 2011.
"Do you know? - processes behind OS" SoftwareDesign 2009-09 - written by Fumihito Yoshida.
NetWalker Guide Book - Published on 29 Oct 2009. We wrote many articles for it.
"Start cloud computing with Ubuntu" @IT - Published in 25 Nov 2009, written by Fumihito.
"Ubuntu Monthly Report" SoftwareDesign - has been serialized since May 2010, and continues today.
"Features of Ubuntu LTS 10.04" SoftwareDesign 2010-06 - Published on 18 May 2010, written by some of us.
Ubuntu Linux Introduction Kit for 10.04 - Published on 15 July 2010, written by Jun Kobayashi and Nobuto Murata.
"New Generation Filesystem - Btrfs" SoftwareDesign 2010-10 - Published on 18 Sep 2010, written by Fumihito.
"Features of Ubuntu 10.10" SoftwareDesign 2010-11 - Published on 18 Oct 2010, written by Fumihito and Ikuya.
"Ubuntu 10.10" ASCII.technologies - Published on 24 Jan 2011, written by Ikuya.
"Ubuntu 11.04 New Desktop Environment" SoftwareDesign 2011-05 - Published on 18 Apr 2011, written by Hajime Mizuno.
Japanese Remix CDs - We create and distribute Japanese Remix Desktop CDs for each release of Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop Japanese Remix CD - We have pressed 1,000 CDs to hand out in events.
Archive mirrors - We maintain archive mirrors in Japan with help of some organizations.