Re: [tlug] Introduction: OpenSolaris

[Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@example.com>]

On 4 avr. 07, at 23:01, Jim Grisanzio wrote:

> Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> > On 4 avr. 07, at 17:52, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> > > Hello ...
> > >
> > > I'm new here so I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm the Community  
> > > Manager on the OpenSolaris project, and I moved to Japan about 8  
> > > months ago from San Francisco. I focus on community development  
> > > issues globally, but in reality that's a pretty big place so I'm  
> > > trying to spend most of my time in Asia. Perhaps you wouldn't  
> > > mind if I came to some meetings and met you guys? I'd love to  
> > > share experiences. I think we in the OpenSolaris community have  
> > > learned a lot from the Linux community and other Open Source  
> > > communities, and I'd love to talk about that.
> > I see that you were at the Open Source Conference. Did you like it  
> > there ? It seems like Beginet is working a huge lot to promote  
> > FOSS and their communities. I've been trying to participate to OSC  
> > whenever I could last year and I met a huge number of very nice  
> > people. I think OSC (to which a number of TLUG people participate  
> > too, I think) is one of the best meeting places around: small  
> > scale/community centered. I'll be trying to join them this year as  
> > well, to promote OmegaT and localization efforts in FOS communities.
> > Jean-Christophe
>
> Hi ...
>
> Yes, I was there with some of our Java and OpenSolaris guys here  
> from Sun. I didn't have time to attend too many sessions, though,  
> and my Japanese is, ah, rather weak right now. :) But we had some  
> good sessions and we started a new OpenSolaris User Group, too. And  
> I met a lot of interesting people. In general, I'm interested in  
> finding out about all the FOSS events in Japan. I can't attend them  
> all, of course, but everything's new to me so I need to find out  
> what's out there.

There were three Sun people at my presentation: Shinya Ogino (who did  
not seem very impressed to say the least ;) and Reiko Saito as well  
as Hiroko Matano. Both Reiko and Hiroko came back the day after,  
zigzagging between the SUN presentations and I managed to organize a  
demonstration just for them. It was very stimulating to discuss with  
them. Reiko works on l10n QA for Japanese - I had met her on the OOo- 
ja lists previously -  and Hiroko manages the l10n tool chain (at  
least that is my understanding) and the question basically was: why  
do people use OmegaT rather than Sun's own OpenLanguageTools,  
especially within Sun's communities (NetBeans for one). We had a nice  
chat and I think the demo convinced them more than the presentation  
the day before (I must improve my presentation skills...)

Anyway,  hope you find the time to learn Japanese, it is really a fun  
language to use !

Jean-Christophe