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LibreOffice in Japan: Quick Look

Naruhiko (NARU) OgasawaraLibreOffice Japanese Team

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LibreOffice is major in Japan?

Now getting major

...but we need more effort to promote ;)

2013/5 2014/2 2014/5

19% 25% 32%

81% 75% 68%

FLOSSOffice ALibreOffice

Download counts in “Mado no mori”, Japanese well-known fee-free softwares distribution site

Thanks Mr. Matsumiya for nice blog post:http://openoffice.sblo.jp/article/ 99462187.html

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Users

Some local governments / organizations / big companies uses LibreOffice

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Media / Books

Articles...to paper magazines...to web mediaThis conferencereports will be published

8 books can buy inAmazon.co.jp

Berlin conference reporthttp://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/COLUMN/20121207/442767/

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Our activities: Translations

UI99% in 4.3.0 (well done!)continuous improvement

Help80% in 4.3.0 (but no activity now...)

WebpageGood for end users

WikiKeep on going

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Our activities: Development

We have only 3 active developers in JapanTakeshi AbeIsamu MogiTomofumi Yagi

Now getting started to growth new developersIncludes myself :)

Now I'm just trying an EasyHack

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Our activities: End users suport

Bug report assistanceReceive problem reports via ML or Askbot

Thanks to infra team, now we have Japanese AskBot!

Reproduce, check fdo, file bugs in EnglishNeed to educate users to report bugs well

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Our activities: Events

Our own eventsAnnual LibreOffice mini ConferenceMeetups

Tokyo – monthly, several styles (seminar, hack, just party)Also we hosted HackFests twice

Osaka – 3-4 month each, seminar style

OthersOpen Source Conference – have talks and boothsopenSUSE Asia Summit 2014 – have a talk about LibO

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Our activities: Future

Growth more developersto fix CJK related / regional bugsto enhance features requested by Japanese users

HELP translationCrowdsourcing can be useful?

Host LibreOffice Asia Conference in Japan!Asian countries might have same problems to shareAnyone want to come as guest speakers? :)Currently it's my personal dream, sorry...

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Thank you for listening the talk

And please forgive my bad English ;)Bad is better than nothing I believe