Re: [Desktop_architects] Desktop Meeting in Japan, Jun. 1

2006-06-11 Thread Takaaki Higuchi
It's here, though we don't have much contents yet. Just have an archive of the mailing list only for now. (and in Japanese) http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/doc-ja/ regards, Takaaki Higuchi Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:37:25PM +0900, Takaaki Higuchi wrote: >> Hi, Bryce, >> >> W

Re: [Desktop_architects] Desktop Meeting in Japan, Jun. 1

2006-06-11 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:37:25PM +0900, Takaaki Higuchi wrote: > Hi, Bryce, > > We have doc-ja project to improve Japanese documents in open source > projects. This project is an umbrella project to facilitate > communications among open source projects in Japan. > > We have been working on tra

Re: [Desktop_architects] [dtl_s_t_m] Adding some background information...

2006-06-11 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 08:42:46PM +0900, Chang-Won Ahn (ETRI) wrote: > On 6/9/06, SAKUMA Junichi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Discussions > >- Food for thoughts by Jun Iio, Mitsubishi Research Institute > > - Linux has only 5% share of the client market. Why so poor? > > - Do we let MS rule for

Re: [Desktop_architects] [dtl_s_t_m] Adding some background information...

2006-06-11 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 08:42:46PM +0900, Chang-Won Ahn (ETRI) wrote: > Hi, guys, > > I want to add some background informtion of OSS activities in Asia, > especially, in CJK (China, Japan, Korea). > > I hope this debate to be a good chance to find a clue to motivate asian > developers > to activ

Re: [Desktop_architects] Desktop Meeting in Japan, Jun. 1

2006-06-11 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Mike Hearn wrote: > > Indeed, that's the point I was making! Saying "we have this software, > how can we make people use it?" is backwards. Forwards would be "we > have this software, what can we do with it that's useful?". Ahh, I misunderstood you. The thing is, sometimes

Re: [Desktop_architects] Desktop Meeting in Japan, Jun. 1

2006-06-11 Thread Mike Hearn
On 6/11/06, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure but this doesn't really answer the question of why bother? :) > > The goodness of software is in how well it serves people. Not in anything > else. It's not some kind of masturbatory exercise for its own sake. Indeed, that's the point

Re: [Desktop_architects] Desktop Meeting in Japan, Jun. 1

2006-06-11 Thread Chang-Won Ahn (ETRI)
Frankly speaking, I think that we, most of asian developers, has been the "free rider" in a some sense. Though there are many localization projects, they don't seemto be substantial contributions, in return for Open Community. I don't know yet what the real reasons are for this loose-loose situatio

Re: [Desktop_architects] [dtl_s_t_m] Adding some background information...

2006-06-11 Thread Chang-Won Ahn (ETRI)
Hi, guys, I want to add some background informtion of OSS activities in Asia, especially, in CJK (China, Japan, Korea).4 years ago, CJK (China, Japan, and Korea) has made CJK OSS Promotion Forum to promote OSS in our countires. At that time, each country has also made its own national OSS Promotion

Re: [Desktop_architects] Desktop Meeting in Japan, Jun. 1

2006-06-11 Thread Takaaki Higuchi
Hi, Bryce, We have doc-ja project to improve Japanese documents in open source projects. This project is an umbrella project to facilitate communications among open source projects in Japan. We have been working on translation tools at first. But we'd like to focus on human resource issues on ope