Yuki SHIDA
shida****@in3c*****
2005年 9月 4日 (日) 04:34:33 JST
志田です。 待ちに待ったTomさんからの返信です。 まだ、あまりよく理解できていないですけど 取り急ぎ転送。 From: tom calthrop <tom****@barnr*****> Subject: Re: self-introduction (Re: calculate total of friends count in SocialNetwork.) Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:20:47 +0200 Message-ID: <4319E****@barnr*****> > Hi Yuki, > > > > Yuki Shina wrote: > > >Dear Tom, > > > > > >I'm so sorry for delay of reply. > > > > > And sorry for my late reply! I've (as always) been busy with AROUNDMe. > the documentation is starting to work and version 0.5.3 was released - > good progress:) > > > > > > > > >>We have a new section on our site .... > >>http://www.barnraiser.org/index.php?item_type_id=9 - I'd really like to > >>write something about your project. Would that be ok? Could you write a > >>few lines just saying what you aim to achieve with aroundme? > >> > >> > > > >Thank you very much for offering to introduce Japan on the page of > >http://www.barnraiser.org/index.php?page=AroundUs. > > > >First, I introduce myself. > > > >I am an employee in the company named "ARK-Web"(http://ark-web.jp). > >ARK-Web is a small Web production company, and it has nine employees. > >I met aroundme in development project of SNS of the company. > > > >ARK-Web did Japanese localization to "Zen Cart"(http://zen-cart.com), > >which is open source CMS software for the E-commerce. > >Japanese Zen Cart (http://zen-cart.jp) is developed by the volunteer's > >community now. > >I am main developer in this community. > > > >Zen Cart is one of the main service to customer for ARK-Web, > >and ARK-Web wanted to make aroundme it's own service similarly. > >So we're working on localization. > > > > http://www.ark-web.jp/solution/index.html > > > > > >I had communicated with you as an individual > >because at first I felt that it was not easy for company to participate > >into "barnbuilders network". > >I'm sorry. > > > > > > No problem at all. It is a social project (a project for society). > Companies can support it and/or use the software but I fully understand > that it is not for a company nor should it be. It is good though to see > people like you involved and also able to discuss the project with a > company. > > >Concerning japanese localization, Mr Nakano has been checking > >that the translation is appropriate or not. > > > >He is vice president in ARK-Web, and he proposed to start japanese > >localization for Zen Cart. > >Aroundme Japanese localization is his proposal too . > > > > Fantastic! It will be so good to see a Japanese version. We also have > people working on traditional and simplified Chinese versions which will > start to create interest thoughout Asia. > > > > > > >He is in barnbuilders network too. > > > >We sympathize to the spirit of open source, > >and we are interested in roadmap of your software > >and respect barnraiser's approach for open education. > > > > > >There are several people who want to cooperate in making to > >Japanese localization pack for aroundme. > > > > > > Great! :) > > >We already made project space in SourceForge.JP > >(http://sourceforge.jp/projects/aroundme-jp/) to cooperate with them. > >We wish to open Japanese support/develop site for aroundme (ex: http://aroundme.jp). > >We wish that you appreciate our movement, but if you do not hope it, please tell me. > > > > > > I am a bit concerned that the project may split if we do that (but you > can do it if you want to). We have the build network > (http://build.barnraiser.org). It would be great to see a group in there > for Japanese speakers! Would you like to do that instead? > > > > >Anyway, congratulations for aroundme 0.5.2 on release. > >We still not try this enough, but we are very interested in channel. > >The language pack which we made is based on 0.5.0. > >We has been trying to merge it to 0.5.2, so it needs a little more time. > > > >And, you wrote about Folksonomies in mail magazine. > >(but I still not read firmly). > >I think it is very exciting for roadmap of aroundme. > > > > > That is implemented now and we hav more ideas coming soon:) > > > > >ARK-Web made "snippy"(http://snippy.jp) which is a first > >Social Bookmark Service(like http://del.icio.us) in Japan. > > > >Snippy's goal is to share a bookmark which is useful for > >making web site. > >Snippy is free service, but, it is not possible to participate > >if there is no invitation because Snippy aims to make community > > that specializes in a special field of Web production. > > > > > >On the other hand, I made a http://in3c.org a few days ago. > > > >"IN3C" has aimed to research WWW technology, and to gather it, > >and develop original (open source) project with volunteer. > > > >I am interested in using aroundme for IN3C in future. > > > > > > We still have work to do to make AROUNDMe stble for a production site, > but it would be great to see you use it in the future. > > >Now, "PukiWiki"(http://pukiwiki.org) is used in IN3C. > >PukiWiki is japanese wiki clone. > > > >I made bliki(blog + wiki) plugin for PukiWiki. > >Our Wiki supports the expression like blog > >as well as wiki support of "beacon". > >In future, if there is bliki for each "group" of aroundme, > >I think it is interesting. > > > >Finally, about the introductory essay of http://www.barnraiser.org/index.php?page=AroundUs, > >if you describe following points, I would appreciate it. > > > > -Social softoware, infrastracture of collaboration is > > becoming very important. > > > > -Aroundme is very powerfull and flexible platform. > > > > -As web developers, we want to utilize it for knowledge / mind > > sharing, and project management, as well as introduce to > > various groups / organization. > > > > > > Thank you! I'll put it up tonight. > > > > >Thank you for reading though my poor english. > > > > > > Your English is much better than my Japanese - together we can bring > AROUDMe to Japanese people and have your wonderful culture and people > help evolve our software and ideas. > > tom > > >We respect you. > >Thank you very much. > > > > > > > >Best regards, > >Yuki > > > > > > > -- > Tom Calthrop > Founder, Barnraiser. > > dedicated to giving people the tools they need to share > knowledge and advance society through social software. > > http://www.barnraiser.org/ > > phone (mobile): +46(0) 733 83 84 14 > > -- Yuki SHIDA <shida****@in3c*****>
