The 5th International GPLv3 Conference will hold in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan, Nov 21-22, 2006. I am a board member of FSIJ (The Free Software Initiative of Japan), and the organization is hosting the conference. I'm also working to prepare the conference. The most major usage of GNU/Linux is for embedded system in Japan. I think many people know "Zaurus", a linux-based PDA. And other many embedded systems are here and there in Japan. So we will discuss about embedded system and Free Software. I consider to broadcast the conference by Ogg/Vorbis and Theora, XCAST6 with vic and rat, and IRC. I hope that many people see the conference via network and directly. BTW, the blog's category is not match to the subject. I need to make other category...

Shun-ichi Goto, one of the elisp hackers, released an emacs major mode for Trac, trac-wiki.el. I had not tested it yet, but it would be useful for emacs users. It seems to require w3m, emacs-w3m, xml-rpc.el, and XmlRpcPlugin for Trac.

There were a few Debian Developers from the U. S., canada and Italy,and I did a meeting with them at a vegetarian curry restaurant in Ginza.11 people in total attended, with 6 people from Japan (Knok,Horms, Nori1, Iwamatsu, Daigo, dancerj).Mattia Dongli isthe Debian maintainer for user-mode-linux, and I did receivepatches for pbuilder user-mode-linux support; only that Ididn't remember until he mentioned.Matthew Wilcox and Iand few others discussed git/mercurial, and how it improvedour lives.Icommented that mercurial is not well-accepted because HG hasa subtly different connotation in Japan.I discussed a bit about ruby with Daigo, and it soon became midnight.Thanks to all who attended for attending.

Junichi Uekawa(dancerj) arrenged a welcome party for Mattia Dngili and Matthew Wilcox tonight. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend it because I need to stay to get my large baggage from a transporter. However, the place of the party is really near from my home, so if I can, I'll attend it. By the way, I already met with Matthew Wilbox in linux.conf.au 2004, but he wouldn't remember me.

Now Warren Togami, the founder of the Fedora Project, is in Japan. And today I and some Japanese FLOSS developers (includes Kenshi Muto) are going to discuss with him. The last year, he has come to Japan and already discussed about i18n with many people, so today's addendants are a few people. Anyway, I hope the discussion will improve i18n environment in the FLOSS world.

Development Environment Conference(Japanese) was held in Akihabara, 8 Sep. The event was focused for that the famous geeks use what kind of tools, software configuration, or environment. Many people were using zsh, GNU screen, and vim or Emacs. In the event, I really surprised a man who use GNU screen with default prefix key!

In Xen Dom0/U environment, some optimized binaries for the prossessor type i686 work slower than standard Debian binaries. To discover the reason, now I am trying to use xenoprof, some patchsets for Xen 3.0.0. The latest unstable Xen have already merged the patch, but Debian sid's package is still not supported, so I need to use Xen 3.0.0... I hope xenoprof will be merged the Debian Xen related packages.

Recent my work is researching about virtualization technologies. So Xen is also my target. I can use it, but I need to evaluate their performance. So I am trying to compare with difference between gcc and icc on DomU. So I need to try to install gentoo. It requires really many time to compile, so I tired...

I uploaded the photos took in CodeFest 2006 Akihabara to Flicker.com. This machine is VAIO TypeU, a small PC with keyboard. I used it for realtime streaming. Unfortunately, my webcams are not satisfyed to use GStreammer because of poor v4l implementation. So I used Windows XP and Windows Media Encoder 9. I need a suitable webcam for GStreammer..

From 1st Jul, I joined with CodeFest 2006 Akihabara, a kind of events like Hackathon, Sprint, or something. It has been broadcasting via PeerCast, so if you want to see it, setting up PeerCast and play with the follow link: http://localhost:7144/pls/4345209C975F5665FA9308FDB163F249?tip=61.197.170.97:7144 . Unfurotunately, I couldn't setup Ogg/Vorbis, Theora, so it is using Windows Media Encoder 9. I regret it.

Today I uploaded File-MMagic-1.27.tar.gz to CPAN, tt has two minor bug fix.

Today, I joined with PyPy Sprint in Akihabara, Tokyo. It is an event like a Hackathon, CodeFest, or Bug Squash Party. I'v done to adopt wire-siwg with Python, so I released it as version 0.20 I also posted an announce to wire-crawler yahoo groups, but it is not reached yet.

Today I released wire-swig 0.10, multi language binding of libwire. libwire is a part of WIRE, an implementation of Web crawler. I can made my local search engine like google mini with it.

To make search engine with international support, languages are big problem. I maintain Namazu, it is focused to only Japanese and English, but I want to support more languages. In the past, I found TextCat, a perl implementation of language guesser. And yesterday, I can found a new implementation, libTextCat, a C implementation. So I packaged it and placed to:

deb http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~knok/debian ./
deb-src http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~knok/debian/source ./

I'll consider to ITP it.

In the past, I had sent a vote mail to debian-vote list. And I do it again... I need more attention.

I'm trying to install Trac with NetBSD pkgsrc, but clearsilver is the big wall for me. cleasilver depends on GNU find and gcc, so I need to modifide some codes. GNU find is called from rules.mk, so I installed it and replaced "find" to "gfind". Then, util/neo_err.h uses __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ macro, it is a gcc extension, so sunpro compiler can't handle it. So i replaced it to __LINE__, it is not so good solution but better than nothing.

Today I released File::MMagic 1.26 and uploaded to CPAN. It would be appeared soon. And already uploaded it in the Debian unstable archives.

I've finished the first part of my NM process, and I'm waiting for the T&S; questions. The first block of P&P; was ugly... A lot of DFSG related questions. It's boring and too large. Maybe it was better to allot all questions between all blocks. The second part was more interesting. Debian Policy and Developers Reference are two very interesting high quality documents. Although I've read them a few months ago, I've learned a few new things and found a debian debian-policy bug.

When I was in the first steps of NM process, I was looking for templates to T&S; and P&P; but I could not found them. But this templates are public and you could found them here. I don't knok how long are them up to date as you could see as Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt blog.

I was asked some questions about d-i from Takatsugu. I dunno why he failed to build his own image, but building d-i is indeed tricky.
I built d-i with kernel 2.6.12 for him, and you can get it from here (108853248 bytes, MD5SUM: d3ef51daeacb3ec0687b8b64ddcc6a67). Please burn it using your CD writer as ISO image, then try "linux26" at CD boot prompt.
AFAIK there is small one problem; dhcp failed to get gateway information from server at least with pcnet32 driver on VMware. It works perfectly after 2nd stage.
I didn't copy all of linux-kernel-* debs to CD, so you need to install linux-image-2.6.12-1-* from sid by hand if you want to use another CPU-specific kernel.