Debian JP Project -- Road to i18n Distribution --

       Fumitoshi UKAI
       ukai@debian.or.jp / Debian JP Project
       ukai@debian.org / Debian Project
       ukai@linux.or.jp / Vice President, Japan Linux Association

Debian JP Project
       Objective:
        Japanese Packages for Debian 
	Japanese translation of Debian Documents
	Japanese support for Debian users
       Established at Thu, 29 Aug 1996
        debian-devel mailing-list (starts with 7 people)

About Debian GNU/Linux
	100% free!
	open development project
	    over 400 voluntary maintainer over the world wide.
	    In Japan, 14 maintianer now
	    and 8 people are waiting to accept as maintainer

Debian JP Activities
       Debian JP Packages developement/maintainance
       Documents/Web translation to Japanese
       Coordination about Debian mirrors in Japan 
       Mailing-List in Japanese

Debian JP Packages
       Debian compliant
       Packages not yet in Debian
       - Packages supports Japanese characters
       - Software developed in Japan / by Japanese
       Bug Tracking System for JP Packages

Debian JP Packages go into Debian distribution
       These Packages will be merged into Debian distribution
        bo: 2, hamm: 21, slink: 34, potato: 128 (and more)

Document/Web translation to Japanese
	many documents are already translated into Japanese
	- Release notes
	- Install manuals
	- Debian Policy Manual
	- and others
       Japanese Package description 
       Debian web pages are using content negotiation mechanism

Debian mirror in Japan
        - ftp.jp.debian.org
	    Debian mirror (with non-US)
	- www.jp.debian.org
	- debian upload queue daemon: jp

Mailing-List in Japanese
	debian-devel@debian.or.jp:  for Developers
	debian-users@debian.or.jp:  for Users
	debian-doc@debian.or.jp:    Document translation
	debian-www@debian.or.jp:    Web managements

	debian-japanese@lists.debian.org
		Japanese for Debian discussed in English

Road to i18n Distribution
        More JP Packages into Debian
	Debian Packages i18n efforts
	Debian infrastructre i18n efforts
	 - Description in native language
	 - Package configuration (maintainer script) in native language

	-> Universal Operation System