LibreOffice 4.1 under NetBSD 6

Now we're in OSC; Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Fall, Japanese biggest FLOSS event.
I saw a great thing here:

Mr. Onodera, a member of NetBSD users group in Japan, have succeeded to build LibreOffice under NetBSD 6!
If you use NetBSD 6, you can install LibreOffice via pkgsrc after 9 hours building :)

LibreOffice Conference 2013 Milan: Mr. Enoki's presentation

Just short note:

Now we have LibreOffice Conference 2013 Milan (unfortunately I lost a chance to attend this year).

From Japanese Team, Mr, Enoki is in there and his talk is just finished.  Great work!

His talk's theme is little similar as my SFD's one thus I helped to make a part of his slide.  If there are some English mistakes, it might be my fault.  Anyway good talk and discussion.

Well done, Eno-san :)

Software Freedom Day Hong Kong 2013

Thank you so much, FLOSS lovers in Hong Kong!


The 3rd Saturday of September, 21st September 2013, I had a great opportunity to have a lecture in Software Freedom Day Hong Kong, memorial first event in HK.


According to their official site (I'm in the top photo; wear a green shirt -- of course LibreOffice Japanese Team's one), Software Freedom Day (SFD) is:

a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Local teams from all over the world organize events on the third Saturday in September. 

I had a 40 minute talk at this event as a keynote.  As a member of LibreOffice Japanese Team, I've introduced LibreOffice; product side and community side, and activities in Japan.  Here is a slide.

LibreOffice: outline, and what we are doing in Japan from Naruhiko Ogasawara

I got two good questions from the audience.  I couldn't answer well so Graham Leach caught the questions and his answer seems perfect, but now I want to answer the two questions in my words.

Q1. Why you commit LibreOffice? 

Because it's "our right."

Please consider if you find a bug in the software you use. 

If the software is proprietary, only you can do is just call tech support and get an answer "Oh sorry it's our bug, we'll consider to fix it in next version" or something else. After that, only you can do is wait.

If the software is FLOSS, you can fix it and send the patch to upstream.  Or file it in Bugzilla and you can track everything about the issue.

Your action might help to solve your problem, and any other people who have a same problem. 

Q2. What is a benefit to commit? 

First, it's fun.  It's a very good hobby.  We can feel we are part of evolution ;) 

Second, LibreOffice is very casual, active, easy-to-join project, and it is a good training field to commit any kind of FLOSS project.  Working on FLOSS project is good for young people to grow one's skill up.  And looking really open governance of LibreOffice community is a very good opportunity. This experience will help you if you manage someone else.

Anyway, thanks for everyone helped me in HK or via the net, especially Fred and Pockey.  So awesome days HK!

Travel report follows: TL;DR.

Open Source Conference 2013 Okinawa

Sorry for long time nothing post...

In 6th July 2013 (Sat), I've been in Okinawa, Japanese hottest prefecture, to attend Open Source Conference (OSC) which is one of series of most famous FLOSS related events (OSC 2013 Okinawa's official site is here; only in Japanese).

Yeah, Okinawa, really good place :)  Strong sun than Tokyo area. It was first time for me visiting Okinawa, and I became an Okinawa lover.

Here is Okinawa convention center, in which we had OSC Okinawa.

And here is our space; LibreOffice Japanese team.

Sorry I forgot to take photo within the event, so it is taken at before event had started that's why no people is in there.  Of course our booth had lots of visitors.

We also had a session. Ohmori-san, one of key person of our team and an employee famous LibreOffice user-company, had described about LibreOffice project, what's new of 4.1, etc.

I can't say "there had been full of people in the room" because it was in lunch time, but an important point is that we had lots of discussions includes development related stuff.  Good time, of course.
One of the visitor told us that he build LibreOffice with Tiny Core Linux!  I feel it's interesting to try running LibreOffice on TCL!  Wow!

Basically I'm a LibreOffice guy, but also an Ubuntu lover, so I've helped Ubuntu team session by Ubuntu official member, Mizuno-san.

Same as LibreOffice Japanese Team, Ubuntu Japanese Team attends lots of IT events mainly OSC; having a booth and a session both.
You might hear my voice in the video above, because I'm a Jan-ken (Japanese name of paper, rock, scissors) fighter to get some gift (T-shirt, magazines, ...).

Anyway,  for me as a LibreOffice guy, most important purpose visiting Okinawa is to meet Takashi Abe, one of very few Japanese residence LibreOffice code committer.
We have spent long time in A&W burger shop with refill-free root beer, and told many things about LibreOffice; from community handling to development.  Really nice time.
Thanks, Takashi!

The end of the day, we drunk "real" beer (Orion beer is Okinawa local beer, tastes light so really nice in hot place like Okinawa) and Awamori; Okinawa local spirit.  Everything tastes so nice.


Next day, Sunday was a holiday for me.  I enjoyed sea kayaking on really beautiful Okinawa's sea.  Sorry for my waterproof camera was broken (water leaked from somewhere) and I could take few photos. I show you some.

Basically I love running rivers with kayak, not sea-kayak guy. But after paddled Okinawa's beautiful sea, now I think I should add sea-kayaking as my hobby :)


Thanks, Okinawa, I promise I'll visit again near future!

Open Source Conference 2013 Nagoya

Nagoya is very interesting city in Japan.  People in Nagoya has lots of special culture; great morning set in coffee shops (kissa-ten), yummy foods, and in computer world, they love functional programming and BSD ;)

Anyway, this post is short summarized translation of the Japanese report on TDF wiki.  I've not attend, but I hope you may know how active Japanese LibreOffice community is by my (not good) English translation.  Enjoy!

LibreOffice Conference 2012 Berlin videos online

http://hub.libreoffice.org/libocon2012

I only say I realized my English is tooooo bad....sigh.

Anyway, thanks for TDF conference team to spend lots of time to the videos :)

Ubuntu Magazine Japan 2013 Summer

This post is mainly for readers who can read Japanese, but it is an example how Japanese Ubuntu community is active :)

Some of you may know we Japanese has Ubuntu-specific magazine in Japanese language.  The magazine, "Ubuntu Magazine Japan" (in Japan, we called "うぶまが," pronounced "ubu-maga")'s new issue "2013 Summer" has just published today.


In this issue I've written only 2 pages (introduction of Kodak i2600 scanner), anyway its so nice as usual and I love it.  Must buy!

• Very cute labeled DVD-ROM (13.04 Japanese Remix bootable, and lots of stuffs)
• What's new of Raring Ringtail (13.04)
• LibreOffice 4.0 Perfect guide
• Gaming platform Steam on Ubuntu!
• Ubuntu Touch; how to use, and how to develop your software
• Go with Xubuntu!
• Good series: Re-introductive guide of command line
• And so nice two manga!

For LibreOffice people, the LibreOffice guide is really "perfect" guide of 4.0 so you must read (if you can read Japanese).

The publisher, ASCII Media Works (AMW) also provide Kindle version so it is good for people doesn't live in Japan:

In addition, Kindle version is cheaper than paper version (but I still love paper).

And AMW has their own e-book publisher BOOK☆WALKER so you can use.  Here is a Ubuntu Magazine Japan page.  Of course you can try it.

Please enjoy the nice magazine :)