tlug: The Perl Journal Japan Project (Minutes)

[kenhrd@example.com (Ken Harada)]

Hi all,

The followings are the results of the first "Perl Journal
Japan" project meeting held on Saturday 28 February.  TLUG
members are encouraged to comment and take actions.


Minutes of Meeting - 1st "Perl Journal Japan" Meeting
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Date:	Saturday 28 February, 1998	13:30-15:00
Venue:	Omotesando, Mexican Restaurant "El Torrito"
Present:
	Joe Marchak
	Aiichiro Hayashi  (From IMASY)
	Urs Roesh
	Ayako Kato
	Yurie Horita
	Alberto Tomita
	Craig Oda
	Ken Harada

Subject:
	Discussion on publishing "The Perl Journal" Japanese edition
	- Feasibility and strategies

1) Background
Joe Marchak has been contacting Jon Orwant, Editor/Publisher of 
"The Perl Journal", a quarterly magazine about Perl, for possiblity
of issuing its Japanese version.  Jon has been responding to Joe
positively, and given several copies of different issues of TPJ.
It appears Jon will evaluate the trial issue when we can produce.
In doing this, we will need to (and can) cooperate with other
groups of free software community, such as JLUG, xxBSD, and/or
Perl.

[Post Meeting Notes] The Perl Journal Winter 1997 issue has
statement of circulation signed by Jon Orwant.
	12,000 copies printed.
	 7,191 paid circulation.

2) Goal
Through doing the production of "The Perl Journal - Japan" (TPJ-JP), 
we can expect :-
	* Experience in cooperation of TLUG and other free PC (UNIX)
	  communities.
	* Full page ad for TLUG and other participating groups
	* Share of the revenue (if any) to the participating groups
	* Promote free software
	* Help volunteers learn more about Perl

3) Contents
We will begin with <translations> of "TPJ" articles in the initial
stage.  At a later stage, we will find writers of Japanese original
articles, with subjects such as "Japanese language processing".

4) Translation
Volunteer translators will be invited to join the project.  We will
announce this project on :-
	TLUG mailing list
	JLUG mailing list (Japan Linux Users Group)
	FreeBSD group (through IMASY contact)
	CGI mailing list (led by Aiichiro, with some 900 members)
	Universitiy (Yokohama National University)
	and other personal contacts.

Announcement will be also placed on TLUG web site when the new
TLUG server is up and running.

The translation work will be volunteer, with no monetary rewards.
The volunteers are expected to work on translation only for his
interest, learning (of Perl and translation), honor and satisfaction.


5) Publication
The TPJ-JP will concentrate on the translation, edition and production.
We will contact publishers like O'Reilly Japan or Laser5 and ask if
they are interested in the printing, circulation and those publication 
works.  There would be negotiation regarding the split of the revenue.

For the initial trial issue before contacting the publishers will be
issued electronically on TLUG web site.  By doing this way we can avoid
any risk, and show how the project can generate the output.

We will work on the latest issue of TPJ to be published on 3 March.


6) Work flow
Most of the activities will be done on a new, dedicated mailing list
named "TPJ-JP".  Those interested in the project will be invited to
join this ML. The English issue of TPJ will be shown on TLUG web site.
A volunteer translator will select the article he post "I will do
this" message to ML (or Web?).  The translation will be posted on the
ML, subject to proofreading by ML members (led by proofreading leader),
and posted as the final article.


7) Timing
We target to issue the 1st electronic issue on 15 May.
(Do we need more time?)

8) Project Leader
Joe Marchak has been elected as the temporary TPJ-JP Project
Leader.

9) Actions
* Report on plan to Jon Orwant			Joe Marchak
* TLUG Server setup at PHT			Craig Oda/Joe Marchak
* TPJ-JP Mailing List setup			Craig Oda
* TPJ-JP project web page			Urs Roesh
* Invitation by posting on MLs, contacting friends etc:
	TLUG	(by this Meeting Minutes)
	JLUG					Ayako Kato
	IMASY					Ken Harada
	FreeBSD group				Ken Harada (through IMASY
						member)
	CGI-ML					Aiichiro Hayashi
	University (Yokohama National Univ)	Alberto Tomita
	Friends and personal contacts		All



PS: Craig, could you put this onto TLUG web site (on twics till
    server is up) so that we can refer when we invite people.

Regards,

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Ken Harada (原田　健)
Hayama, japan
kenhrd@example.com
http://www.hayama.net/~kenhrd/
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