Giving a presentation about Alfresco in Shinjuku

On Thursday I will give a presentation about Alfresco in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

I still have to think about the details, but I will probably be presenting the basics of Alfresco and how to set up content management rules.

I will be speaking in Japanese.

Place: 東京都新宿区百人町2-27-6 関東ITソフトウェア健保会館
Time: 25th of August, 2011 (Thu) 19:00
Price: Free registration here

Released AnkiDroid 0.4.1

I just released AnkiDroid 0.4.1, result of the collaboration of about 8 developers and tens of other contributors!

AnkiDroid will always be open source, but it is starting to get attention from companies as well: a Chinese company contributed the Simplified Chinese user interface. This version brings in a lot of new features:

First, the user interface has been translated by volunteers in 13 languages:
- Portuguese
- Swedish
- Romanian
- French
- Spanish
- Italian
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
- Catalan
- Russian
- Polish
- Greek
- German

Second, you can now download decks that have been made by other people. Hundreds of good-quality decks are available in a multitude of topics: sciences, law, languages, medicine, etc.

And lots of other improvements!
In Google's Android Market, search for "Anki".

Helpdesk software solutions

If you are selling software products in Japan, you might need a helpdesk tool to keep track of your clients' questions and problems. I performed an evaluation of 10 helpdesk software solutions and here are the results. I first selected 30 tools (including bug trackers), and restricted my choice to ten tools that are open source, actively maintained, and localized in Japanese.

In the QSOS spirit, I defined criterions and filled the matrix. I gave a weight to each criterion according to what is important to me, but using this OpenOffice spreadsheet you can input your own weighings according to what is important for your company.

My winners are SiT! and GLPI.
But OTRS would be above if it were officially localized in Japanese.

Released AnkiDroid 0.2

I just released AnkiDroid 0.2 !
You can install it on your Android phone using the Google Market. AnkiDroid is a memorization software with already 900 registered users. Of course, it is open source.
Many new features for this version 0.2:
- Basic spaced repetition.
- Preferences dialog to enable various things.
- Sample deck.
- Starts much faster.

First day at Aegif's Roppongi office

Last week's Alfresco gathering in Milan was great! After defining the future Alfresco certifications, we wrote hundreds of questions. I mostly wrote API questions, so people who try and pass the Alfresco API Developer certification will probably get a few of my questions :-) All of the answer are in the documentation, of course. We were also trained to become Alfresco WCM trainers.

I came back from Italy yesterday, and am now working at the 28th floor of the Mori Tower in Roppongi, Tokyo. I am working in Japanese. This afternoon, I replied to support requests in the Japanese-language Alfresco forum, and updated the Alfresco Wiki after investigating on export-import in Alfresco Enterprise.

My Semantic Web slides translated to Japanese

I just discovered that my Semantic Web slides have been translated to Japanese! Your can find the translated content here. Many thanks to AT-Corp for this!

Giving a presentation at Miracle Linux

I will give a presentation about the Semantic Web on Friday (2009/6/5) at 7PM at Miracle Linux's Tokyo headquarters, in Shinbashi.

The presentation will be the same I gave a month ago, but this time in Japanese! I will try my best, but my friend Osonoi Yasushi, CEO of Open Dream, will be translating what I can't say yet in Japanese. The audience will be Japanese-speaking. Socialization activities will follow.

You can watch the event live at ustream.tv and a video will be available on YouTube a bit later.

Details on the Yokohama Linux Users Group's website.