Re: Introduction

[Peter Junge <pe...@gmx.org>]

Hi Tora,

I'm pleased to e-meet you here and I'm hoping there will be an OOoCon 
again to meet in person.

Best regards,
Peter

On 23.06.2011 20:09, tora - Takamichi Akiyama wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to introduce myself, too. I'm Takamichi Akiyama from Japan.
>
> I transferred to Sun Microsystems in 1999 with 8 year work experience in
> telephone exchange system. In Sun I was in charge of StarOffice development
> from 2000 to 2003 with colleges in Beijing, Seoul, India, California,
> not to
> mention, people in Hamburg. My area was especially for North East Asian
> culture
> such as vertical writing, grid layout, i18n, l10n, as well as quality
> assurance,
> translating documents, UI, and online help.
>
> Because of focusing on Asian culture and being a UNIX lover from SunOS,
> I am
> highly interested in sw, sc, vcl, sal, i18npool, and relevant modules
> such as
> svx, sfx2, tools, framework, ... and am eager to help system-wide
> performance
> improvement with OpenOffice.org.
>
> I use C, C++, Perl, Ruby, XSLT, PHP, JavaScript, OpenOffice.org BASIC, ...
> As you might notice, I am not very familiar with Windows, though.
>
> After quitting Sun, I moved to Berkeley, California in the US to learn
> English,
> met people there, and started Capoeira, Brazilian martial arts, as my
> life-time
> activity.
>
> With invaluable treasures from the US, I came back to Japan and started
> my own
> business as self-employed to technically support OpenOffice.org users by
> providing
> patches for their special needs and/or bugs. Through such efforts I have
> been
> successfully contributing to the OpenOffice.org project for nearly decade.
>
> Best regards,
> Tora
>
> ---
> Nickname: Tora
> Real name: Takamichi Akiyama
> Co-Lead of mirror subproject at the former OpenOffice.org
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Tora
>