ReApproval Application 2017 for Japanese LoCo Team (ubuntu-jp)

Key Details

• Date - 22 June 2017

• Team Contact - Jun Kobayashi

• Membership - 12 active core members and tens of volunteers as of 22 June 2017.

• Mailing List - ubuntu-jp on lists.ubuntu.com with 2722 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.

  • 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.
  • Hold a release party.

• IRC Meetings - Continue to organise ondemand 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 DVD images which supports Japanese lang packs even in live session.
    • and continue efforts to reduce differencies between Official Imange and Japanese Remix

• 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, etc.

• Deepen exchanges with Ubuntu users in other countries

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

Experience

Experiences from 16 July 2015 to 22 June 2017.

• Meetings - We organized events for Ubuntu users.

  • Ubuntu 15.10 release party; host (event reprot)

  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release party; host (event reprot)

  • Ubuntu 16.10 release party; host (event reprot)

  • Ubuntu 17.04 release party; host (event reprot)

• Conference Attendance - We have held and attended following conferences.

  • Open Source Conference 2015 Kansai@Kyoto; booth participation

  • Open Source Conference 2015 Tokyo/Fall; booth participation

  • Open Source Conference 2016 Tokyo/Spring; booth participation

  • Open Source Conference 2016 Gunma; booth participation

  • Open Source Conference 2016 Hokkaido; booth participation

  • Open Source Conference 2016 Okinawa; booth participation

  • Open Source Conference 2016 Kyoto; booth participation

  • Open Source Conference 2016 Tokyo/Fall; booth participation

  • Open Source Conference 2016 Hiroshima; booth participation

  • Open Source Conference 2017 Tokyo/Spring; booth participation

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

  • Akira Tanaka has become a member of Ubuntu Japanese LoCo Team.

• Team Reports - We have submitted the summary of our activities to TeamReports page continually ( summary page ).

• Ondemand 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 papers and online local magazines

  • Ubuntu Weekly Recipe / weekly

    • Serialized in 476 articles as of 22 June 2017. (from July 2015: around +100 articles)

  • Ubuntu Weekly Topics / weekly

    • Serialized in around 450 articles as of 22 June 2017 (from July 2015: around +100 articles).

  • "Ubuntu Monthly Report" SoftwareDesign - has been serialized since May 2010, and continues today. (from July 2015: +24 articles)

  • "Software Design"(May 2016) About Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

    • "The Advantage of Ubuntu" by Mizuno Hajime
    • "Changes of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS" by Mitsuya Shibata
    • "The comparisons of flavours" by Ikuya Awashiro
    • "Juju, MAAS and LXD; Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS" by Fumihito Yoshida

  • "All About Ubuntu 16.04 LTS" Nikkei Linux 2016/05 written by Ubuntu Japanese Team

  • "Software Design"(Aug 2016) About apt packaging system written by Mitsuya Shibata

• Japanese Ubuntu Books - Our member wrote some books in Japanese. You can purchase in Japanese book stores and/or amazon.co.jp.

  • "Ubuntu 16.04 LTS super-understanding book" written by Ubuntu Japanese Team

    • Kindle version

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

  • Ubuntu 15.10 Desktop Japanese Remix

  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop Japanese Remix

  • Ubuntu 16.10 Desktop Japanese Remix

  • Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop Japanese Remix

  • For all releases, we translated release note:

    • Ubuntu 15.10 Release Notes

    • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Release Notes

    • Ubuntu 16.10 Release Notes

    • Ubuntu 17.04 Release Notes

• Archive/Release mirrors - We maintain archive mirrors in Japan with help of some organizations.

  • University of Toyama

  • K.K. Ashisuto