Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice mini Conference 2016 Osaka/Japan (9th Jan, 2016)

[Naruhiko Ogasawara]

Hi everyone,

As a behalf of the LibreOffice Japanese community, I proud to say that
our "mini" conference had been done with brilliant success.

# we say "mini" conference, imitating the Debian community;
# they had a event named "mini-DebConf" in Taiwan several years ago,
# means "the local event for local LibreOffice lovers."


Kohei Yoshida, well-known Calc hacker and our keynote speaker, wrote
the perfect report of that event.
http://kohei.us/2016/01/26/libreoffice-mini-conference-2016-in-osaka/

Thanks,

2016年1月4日(月) 11:14 Naruhiko Ogasawara :

> Hi everyone,
>
> Happy new year!
>
>
> Takeshi, thanks to answer quickly the questions from Charles.
> You describe well about the historical background and current state of
> Japanese LibreOffice community.
>
> Charles, Italo,
> I appreciate you for spending your time (includes new year holiday
> and pre-FOSDEM days) to publish our mini-conference.
>
>
> Regards,
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>
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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice mini Conference 2016 Osaka/Japan (9th Jan, 2016)

[Naruhiko Ogasawara]

Hi everyone,

Happy new year!


Takeshi, thanks to answer quickly the questions from Charles.
You describe well about the historical background and current state of
Japanese LibreOffice community.

Charles, Italo,
I appreciate you for spending your time (includes new year holiday
and pre-FOSDEM days) to publish our mini-conference.


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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice mini Conference 2016 Osaka/Japan (9th Jan, 2016)

[Italo Vignoli]

On 28/12/15 16:14, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:

> Excellent thank you! Italo, do you think we could publish this interview on
> the official TDF blog?

Yes, I will publish it this week.

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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice mini Conference 2016 Osaka/Japan (9th Jan, 2016)

[Charles-H . Schulz]

Takeshi-San,


Takeshi Abe  @ 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 
>  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,

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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice mini Conference 2016 Osaka/Japan (9th Jan, 2016)

[Takeshi Abe]

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 
 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

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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice mini Conference 2016 Osaka/Japan (9th Jan, 2016)

[Charles-H . Schulz]

Naruhiko-San,


Naruhiko Ogasawara  @ 2015-12-26 05:26 CET:

> Hi Charles,
>
>
>> I'll spread the enws on social networks next week and I'm sure we could
>> blog about the event and perhaps how it went. Maybe an interview might
>> be useful?
>>
>> Thanks, sounds great :)
>
> Please tell me if there is something I could provide you.
> An interview sounds good for me, although my English is not so good ;)

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?

- Is LibreOffice known in Japan and are there known deployments in the public
  or private sector?

- Are there specific technical challenges for LibreOffice in Japanese?

- Last question: do you have any specific goal for this mini-conference that
  would make you and the Japanese community happy?


Best regards,


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[libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice mini Conference 2016 Osaka/Japan (9th Jan, 2016)

[Naruhiko Ogasawara]

Hello,

I want to let you global people know how Japanese guys works.

Some of you may know via my blog[1], we, Japanese LibO
community is preparing our annual event,
LibreOffice mini Conference 2016 Osaka/Japan.

Here is a Japanese event site[2], and English Wiki[3].

Happy to say, we will invite Kohei Yoshida, a well-known Calc
hacker, as a keynote speaker.
We also have a HackFest at a next day, and he might help us
to become LibO developers.

ja.libreoffice.org site[4] already provides it's information with
a fancy banner, by Jun Nogata, a winner of 4.4 templates
contest.

Thanks,

[1]
http://naruoga-en.blogspot.jp/2015/12/update-libreoffice-mini-conference-2016.html
[2] http://libojapan.connpass.com/event/23688/
[3] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/LibOCon_mini_JP
[4] http://ja.libreoffice.org/events/
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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice mini Conference 2016 Osaka/Japan (9th Jan, 2016)

[Naruhiko Ogasawara]

Hi Charles,


> I'll spread the enws on social networks next week and I'm sure we could
> blog about the event and perhaps how it went. Maybe an interview might
> be useful?
>
> Thanks, sounds great :)

Please tell me if there is something I could provide you.
An interview sounds good for me, although my English is not so good ;)

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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice mini Conference 2016 Osaka/Japan (9th Jan, 2016)

[Charles-H. Schulz]

Dear Naruhiko-San,

I'll spread the enws on social networks next week and I'm sure we could
blog about the event and perhaps how it went. Maybe an interview might
be useful?

Best,

Charles.

Le Fri, 25 Dec 2015 09:49:14 +,
Naruhiko Ogasawara  a écrit :

> Hello,
> 
> I want to let you global people know how Japanese guys works.
> 
> Some of you may know via my blog[1], we, Japanese LibO
> community is preparing our annual event,
> LibreOffice mini Conference 2016 Osaka/Japan.
> 
> Here is a Japanese event site[2], and English Wiki[3].
> 
> Happy to say, we will invite Kohei Yoshida, a well-known Calc
> hacker, as a keynote speaker.
> We also have a HackFest at a next day, and he might help us
> to become LibO developers.
> 
> ja.libreoffice.org site[4] already provides it's information with
> a fancy banner, by Jun Nogata, a winner of 4.4 templates
> contest.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> [1]
> http://naruoga-en.blogspot.jp/2015/12/update-libreoffice-mini-conference-2016.html
> [2] http://libojapan.connpass.com/event/23688/
> [3] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/LibOCon_mini_JP
> [4] http://ja.libreoffice.org/events/



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