Hi Jim-san Thanks for your mention about my preso. and thanks Hern?n-san and Alex-san for checking:-)
Our project "OpenSolaris for Eee PC" is grobal project so I think I should leave all my presos in English "worldwide common language" I would much appreciate if you all could check it. Regards, -masafumi On 2009/02/23, at 10:47, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > hey ... > > I want to a little open source conference here in Tokyo over the > weekend (about a thousand people over two days). There were 4 talks > on OpenSolaris (DTrace and xVM, EeePC, OSUM, Globalization). The > sessions were all full (about 50 people each), which was very > encouraging. Everything took place in Japanese, but Ohta-san wrote > his EeePC slides in English so I put them on the Advocacy files page > because I know the EeePC is popular in other regions. > > EeePC > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/files/OpenSolaris_on_EeePC_OSC_spring_u2.pdf > > Images: > http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/opensolaris_at_the_tokyo_osc > > In general, the Japanese-speaking community in Tokyo has been > growing consistently and it's now noticeable. A variety of > contributions are coming in, there is a new distribution, there is a > repository, there are regular interactions with other communities, > non-Sun people are presenting at events, university students are > getting involved and forming new groups on campus, the Japan OSUG > has started holding technical study groups on the weekends in > addition to their regular monthly meetings, the ug-jposug list has > over 200 people and activity is constant, and it's quite normal to > get 80 or so people for OpenSolaris events and the bigger sessions > draw about 125. As this Japanese community grows, we are trying to > connect it to the many international communities in Tokyo so we can > bridge to English and go global. It's getting interesting here. > > The OpenSolaris community is obviously still pretty small globally, > but it's important that we step back and quantify what we have > because I'm convinced we are doing more than we are even aware of. > > Let us know what's going on where you are ... > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss
