Takeshi-San,
Takeshi Abe <[email protected]> @ 2015-12-28 04:08 CET: > Hi Charles, > > As Naruhiko-san poked me about the interview material, I would like > to make a pitch for some of your questions. > > On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 15:37:33 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sure - perhaps TDF could publish this interview on its official blog. Let's >> have some questions - others please feel free to add more: >> >> - Can you tell us more about the context of the Japan LibreOffice >> Mini-Conference? >> >> - Can you tell us more about the LibreOffice Japanese community? > In 2012 the idea of mini Conference in Japan have emerged from > discussion in LibreOffice Japanese Team, which organizes the series of > events. Our team consists of the most active contributors in the Japanese > community, serving as a NLP now. > > To explain what we considered, let me summarize a history of the Japanese > community since the OOo era briefly. (Please note that this is based on > my personal view.) > OOo already earned huge expectation from Japanese users. It was obvious > from the number of migrations [1] in the country, and the fact that > a government agancy led a project on techinical research for Japanese > Language specific features [2]. > > Unfortunately, like other groups in the OOo project, Japanese volunteers > suffered from the bureaucratic nature of the project. Core members of > NLP faced difficulty to focus on contribution. They eventually parted ways, > ending up that some of them formed so-called "users group" [3] at 2002, > to try taking care of the situation better than "official" NLP. > The dispute seems to remain unresolved until today. > > This kind of separation resulted in fewer collaboration between volunteers > and poor communication within the community. Worse, user and business > organizations became skeptical about availability of skilled people who > can help them send feed back to the project. That implied even fewer > contribution. > > Time passed and the launch of LibreOffice struck. Its manifesto sounded > exactly essential to us. Sure, meritocracy is the key. Early members of > LibreOffice Japanese Team has chosen a flat structure with no lead. > Our team encouraged each to do what he/she could do in his/her favorite > manner. > It worked magically, and works well so far. > But one practical issue recurs: how can we communicate effectively outside > the project for, e.g., promoting LibreOffice, recruiting new volunteers or > exchanging ideas with the industry, when we have neither authority nor > structured man-power? > > One of the answers we argued was simple: let's gather and ask people who > concern. > That's why mini Conference was born. > >> >> - Is LibreOffice known in Japan and are there known deployments in the public >> or private sector? > Yes. You can find visible deployments at > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/JA/Marketing/CaseStudy > >> - Last question: do you have any specific goal for this mini-conference that >> would make you and the Japanese community happy? > Yes. It aims at gathering people anually for unifying the community. > It also gives our Japanese Team an off-line meeting. > > The last mini Conference was held in late 2014, which topic is code > development from the Japanese community. > It was not only a success with interesting presentations by young hackers, > but also provided a tutorial for newbies about how to start hacking > LibreOffice. > > This time we plan to meet people among broader interests. > We have called for both long and short form of presentations on whatever, > whoever in the community would like to share. > Accepted papers include ones from users, volunteers, academia and companies > providing value-added service. > I am sure that meeting friends in the community at early January and enjoying > refreshingly cold air at Osaka will be great for new year's resolution :) > > [1] http://ossforum.jp/jossfiles/OpenOffice.org_use_cases_0.pdf > [2] > https://web.archive.org/web/20070506220203/http://www.ipa.go.jp/software/open/ossc/2007/theme/koubo1_t01.html > [3] http://oooug.jp/ > > Cheers, > -- Takeshi Abe Excellent thank you! Italo, do you think we could publish this interview on the official TDF blog? Thanks, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint Mobile Number: +33 (0)6 98 65 54 24. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
