ApprovalApplication
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 volunteer as of 21 July 2009. (2 new members in this year)
- Fumihito Yoshida was approved for Ubuntu Membership in April.
Mailing List - ubuntu-jp on lists.ubuntu.com with 1344 members as of 16 July 2008.
IRC - #ubuntu-jp on Freenode
Web Site - http://www.ubuntulinux.jp
Web Forum - http://forum.ubuntulinux.jp
Roadmap
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 comforably for Japanese users.
Meetings - Continue to organise regular weekly meetings.
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.
- Attend events and to write articles actively.
- Advise more companies which plan to use Ubuntu for business.
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.
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 started 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.
- Dell announced about they will ship Inspiron Mini 9 with Ubuntu 8.04 pre-installed. In Japanese UMPC market, Inspiron Mini 9 will be first Ubuntu pre-installed product.
- ATOK X3 (propietary Japanese input method software for Linux) supports Ubuntu 8.10 and Ubuntu 9.04.
LoCo Membership process - We have written details of how new member can join our LoCo team, based on the Ubuntu Membership process used by the Community Council.
Japanese Ubuntu articles - We have written articles for following print and online local magazines:
Nikkei Linux August issue: "Ubuntu 8.04 徹底活用" / "Ubuntuの育て方"
"Ubuntu Linux 入門キット for 8.04 LTS"
Software Design: "Ubuntu 8.10 先行レビュー(First Review: Ubuntu 8.10)"
Software Design: ～UNIXのテクノロジーを学ぶ～ initデーモンとは何か( -Learning Unix Technology- "What is init daemon")
Nikkei Linux December issue: Ubuntu 8.10サーバー版の正体(True face of Ubuntu 8.10 Server)
Interviewd by local magazine "Kantan-Ubuntu"
- "Install Ubuntu to your second homebuilt computer" for Nikkei WinPC which is a Japanese computer magazine published by Nikkei BP.
Software Design: [[http://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD/archive/2009/200905|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
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.
Archive mirrors - We have deployed and maintain new archive mirrors in Japan with help of some organizations.