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Summary

• As a member of Japanese LoCo Team since August 2009, I attended FOSS events and made presentations to promote Ubuntu.

• I wrote articles about Ubuntu in Japan.

Launchpad ID

• https://launchpad.net/~nobuto

What I've done

Appearance in Events

Off-line Meetings

• Background information about Off-line Meeting:

  • The events are organised by Ubuntu Japanese LoCo Team and usually attended by 60 people. Attendees can install Ubuntu to their computers with LiveCDs, USBs, SD cards or PXE. Besides they can listen in some presentations about Ubuntu.

• Ubuntu Off-line Meeting Tokyo 9.04 (2009-04-25)

  • As a staff
  • As an install help staff - I assisted some people who have never installed Ubuntu.
  • As a presenter - I made the presentation titled "Let's join Ubuntu Community" (for 25 minutes) which contains "How to sign up for Launchpad, Forums, Wiki, Mailing list and IRC" and "How to report bugs using Apport".

    • Slides: Docstoc.com, PDF

    • Videos: Part1, Part2

• Ubuntu Off-line Meeting Tokyo 9.08 (2009-08-01)

  • As a staff

• Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party Tokyo (2010-11-06)

  • As an organiser

  • Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/106468260551425064278/Ubuntu1010ReleasePartyTokyo#

Open Source Conference

• Background information about Open Source Conference:

  • The events tour a city a month throughout Japan. People who have an interest in FOSS not only Ubuntu are coming.

• Open Source Conference 2009 Kansai (2009-07-10,11)

  • As a booth staff - I distributed Ubuntu CDs and explained what Ubuntu is, or answered questions about Ubuntu from visitors.

• Open Source Conference 2009 Nagoya (2009-08-22)

  • As a booth staff

  • As a presenter - I made the presentation titled "Ubuntu 9.10 Early Preview"(for 45 minutes) with our LoCo leader, JunKobayashi.

    • Slides: Docstoc.com, PDF

    • Partial video

• Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo Spring (2010-02-26,27)

  • As a booth staff

• Open Source Conference 2010 Sendai (2010-05-22)

  • As a booth staff
  • As a presenter - I made the presentation titled "Introduction of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"(for 45 minutes)

    • Slides: Docstoc.com, PDF

    • Videos: Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5

• Open Source Conference 2010 Kansai@Kyoto (2010-07-09,10)

  • As a booth staff - I prepared a paper which explains how to install Ubuntu, and distributed it. (PDF)

• Open Source Conference 2010 Nagoya (2010-08-07)

  • As a booth staff
  • As a presenter - I made the presentation titled "Let's set up a home server with Ubuntu"(for 45 minutes)

    • Slides

    • Videos Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4

• Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo Fall (2010-09-10,11)

  • As a booth staff

Ubuntu Hour

• Ubuntu Hour Tachikawa Tokyo

  • I have kept holding Ubuntu Hour twice a month in Tachikawa city since September 2010. Usually, 3 or 4 people are coming.

Sending Patches

• adding bash completion for powerwake (551073)

• fix a page template of LoCo directory (664395)

• update the target of Firefox release notes (664651)

• add i18n support for dman (677200)

• fix hard coding to less in bzrp (677049)

Translations

• Deja Dup (featured in Ubuntu Software Center): https://launchpad.net/deja-dup/+topcontributors

Team Reporting

• I have been responsible for submitting team reports of JapaneseTeam since December 2010.

  • JapaneseTeam/TeamReports

Writing

Book

• "Ubuntu Linux入門キット 10.04対応"(Ubuntu Linux Starter Kit 10.04)

  • This book is the revised version of "Ubuntu Linux入門キット 8.04対応" written by JunKobayashi.

  • http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4798026816/

Magazines

Ubuntu Magazine Japan

• Background information about Ubuntu Magazine Japan:

  • This is the first magazine specialised for Ubuntu in Japan. It is widely sold at book stores throughout Japan and published about 4 times a year.

• Vol.01: I wrote about 6 pages.

• Vol.02: 12 pages

• Vol.03: 15 pages

• Vol.04: 14 pages

• Vol.05: 16 pages

Software Design

• As the series "Ubuntu Monthly Report"

  • June 2010 issue - "How to setup pulseaudio remote functions on headless Ubuntu server" (4 pages)

  • November 2010 issue - "Save your electricity bill with PowerNap and PowerWake" (4 pages)

  • December 2010 issue - "How to use etckeeper with Bazaar" (4 pages)

• Other

  • July 2010 issue - This issue includes Ubuntu CD. I wrote the article which explains how to install Ubuntu using 2 pages.

Online

Ubuntu Weekly Recipe

• Background information about Ubuntu Weekly Recipe:

  • This is a weekly series to introduce recipes for maximizing Ubuntu life quality. Ubuntu Japanese LoCo members take charge of the series respectively.

• How to use a presentation tool, Impressive.(2009-09-16)

• How to organise your photos with a rename tool, PyRenamer(2009-09-23)

• Let's master GNOME panel.(2009-09-30)

• How to live together with other OSs, with LiveCD, VirtualBox.(2009-11-04)

• How to live together with other OSs, with a separate partition, Wubi.(2009-11-11)

• How to live together with other OSs, with GRUB.(2009-11-18)

• How to edit images from command line with ImageMagick.(2009-12-23)

• Let's backup your system easily with Deja Dup.(2010-01-06)

• How to edit your videos with PiTiVi.(2010-01-13)

• How to transfer your system sound with PulseAudio.(2010-01-27)

• Let's use TV recorders from Ubuntu, DLNA client.(2010-02-17)

• Let's use TV recorders from Ubuntu, downloading video files to Ubuntu.(2010-03-03)

• How to backup your whole system with Clonezilla.(2010-05-12)

• Consider 3 points upgrading to 10.04.(2010-05-19)

• Let's use Google services from command line with GoogleCL.(2010-07-14)

• Let's use a simple dock, Docky.(2010-07-28)

• How to use Wake-on-LAN with PowerWake, gWakeOnLan.(2010-08-25)

• How to use public WiFi services from Ubuntu.(2010-09-01)

• How to purchase Ubuntu goods on Canonical Store.(2010-09-15)

• Ubuntu specific side of Firefox(2010-09-22)

• How to get CD images in various ways, HTTP, physically and BitTorrent.(2010-09-29)

• How to get CD images in various ways, zsync and jigdo.(2010-10-06)

• How to use Ubuntu on Japanese VPS service, Sakura-no VPS.(2010-10-13)

• Intoduction of new interface, Unity.(2010-10-20)

Miscellaneous

• I offered the pronunciation file of Japanese word "屏風"(Byobu) to the byobu developer

  • http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/05/byobu-20-released-project-formerly.html

Future plans

• keep attending and organizing events to promote Ubuntu.
• keep translating and documenting.

• carry information what Japanese LoCo and people do to the world through Planet Ubuntu.

Testimonials

• Nobuto is one of the greatest Ubuntu evangelist in Japanese community. In particular, he organize a regular event "Ubuntu Hour in Tachikawa" for the purpose of creating opportunity to face Japanese - a beginner and a advanced - users. I believe that he and his work play an important role in the growth of Ubuntu community. -- cosmos-door 2010-11-23 04:26:00

• Nobuto's passion and sincerity have made him as good speechmaker. As LoCo members, he have much experience as a event-staff/booth staff/organizer. Of course -- until then, he contributes many LoCo events. For about twenty months, he contribute much to the success of our team. -- hito 2010-11-30 10:18:00