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Ubuntu Reaching Out To 16,000 Anime Lovers
shadowmage13 writes "After months of planning, I am happy to announce finally that the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team will be preparing a booth at the upcoming 2010 Anime Boston convention. We need support from the community to secure a booth and print materials, including copies of the Ubunchu! manga. I really believe the Anime fandom is a perfect match for Ubuntu, as they are by nature very much in line with open source and remix culture."
Neither Tux, nor any Ubuntu release mascott I know of has tentacles.
OTOH, one of the protagonists in NGE was a penguin, so there's still hope for acceptance...
This is Slashdot. Common sense is futile. You will be modded down.
it would be more productive to fix 9.10 first
Because another 16.000 clueless, facebooking, twittering and oh-so-creative metrosexuals is EXACTLY what the Ubuntu community needs.
...but now I think I get it: You're asking us to donate money so that your local Linux User Group can have a booth at your local anime convention.
Did I get that right? If so, props for chutzpah, my brother...
A booth.
Some news.
Every year Ubuntu reaches out to 450,000 fans of various alternative music - punk rock, folk and many others, at Woodstock Stop in Poland.
(they have a small tent where they give out CDs and leaflets, and talk about the system.)
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Touchy Tentacle. It will feature advanced social networking services that will allow people to finger their friends over Twitter, Facebook, Pidgin, etc and see what they're up to. Their new motto will be: "Linux for Human Beings and their noodly appendages.".
I sent the maintainer some corrections back in April, but he thought my criticisms were too harsh and chose to ignore them.
:-) :P)
Sometimes the translators simply failed to grasp the meaning of the original text. In panel 3, the girl says "Yokenna, kono!" ("Why you, don't dodge!") and the boy replies "Maji iteendazo!" ("Those really hurt, you know!"; they are both referring to the CDs she's throwing), but in the English translation it turns into "Stop messing around! It can't be any good!". The third girl's line, "Hamori nagara kenka shinaidee!", is not so easy to render in English, but it definitely doesn't mean "Stop talking at the same time!": it means "You were speaking in unison a minute ago [panel 2], so don't fight now!"
Other times, the translation is clumsy. In panel 1, "Saikin ninki no desktop na Linux desu!" ("It's the most popular desktop Linux these days!" - or, more literally, "It's a desktop Linux that is popular these days") becomes "It is very popular with the users, and it is the hottest desktop Linux distribution available."
And that's just the first page.
I reported these and more flaws months ago, but since the maintainer took offense to my harsh but polite comment ("the translation should be redone", I said), he simply rejected the "patch". It's hard not to crack wise that this is just like a real open source project.
(Actually, I know most maintainers aren't like that, so hold those Flamebait mods.
>and I think Ubuntu is fucking stupid.
Sums it up nicely. This has to be the dumbest combination of two random things since someone tried to sell Windows 95 at a double glazing exhibition. Hey, we all like the word window, right? Don't we?
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
There are some big problems anime fans will have with using Linux: Windows boxes are more capable media players. I generally prefer Zoomplayer and MPC-HC to stuff like VLC (although this is naturally personal preference) but a big issue is the lack of Blu Ray playing capability under Linux.
There's also gaming, with the exception of Onscript based games, very few visual novels play well with Linux and most Tohou/doujin shooters are Windows only.
This will give Ubuntu the mainstream credibility we've been seeking!
I really believe the Anime fandom is a perfect match for Ubuntu, as they are by nature very much in line with open source and remix culture.
That is getting stupider over time - considering that out of box Ubuntu can't play 99% of anime found on say mininova.
And even after installing all possible drivers, applications and codecs, Linux video playback - especially as anime concerned - is still eons behind of CCCP on Windows.
And what about the "remix culture" reference? Manga and anime fandom is interesting because there are more people who do new/original stuff - and few who rehash the old stuff. And even if they "remix" (what a stupid word lessig came up with) they still do it their own way, not some dumb copy paste like what many CC-lovers do.
Ubunchu!
That is manga, not anime.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
"children's cartoon shows"
Granted their intentions are dubious, there's no need to illegitimate a fandom because you don't appreciate it. Anime is marketed for ages up to 35 and covers a wide range of genres not appropriate for children for reasons ranging from violence and sexual content (hentai gore etc) to slow moving plots and novel based stories which children would find boring or would not understand. I doubt that Grave of the Firefly's could be classified as a children's cartoon show, neither could Monster, Mushishi, and the Ghost in the Shell is really marketed at older teens to those in their late 20's.
You may not have even heard of most of these and that is probably because US TV doesn't think they should bother showing anime that is more for an older crowd that can appreciate serious themes. Part of that is because they know that people like you will turn on the tv, see animation, and immediately classify it as a children's show and switch. I'm going to guess that you're either someone in their late 20's or above and that you've only been exposed to things like Naruto, Sailor moon, Pokemon, etc and had an entire childhood of cartoons for kids.
I am not going to ask you to research or explore this beyond your exposure, but I will ask that you please not make an uninformed generalisation about a whole medium based on maybe filtered exposure to one of it's genres. It would also be nice for you not to be a dick.
Now get off my lawn kudasai
Guys, I'm disappointed you haven't got here already. http://xkcd.com/178/
Most anime fans tend to have above-average computer skills, and I'd say the clueless are a clear minority - but you don't ever see the intelligent ones making Youtube comments, shitty fan sites / fanfic / fan art or abusing facebook/twitter. In fact most of the anime friends I've met face-to-face have well above average intelligence - I have a relative who is a very successful game developer (has worked on a who's who list of awesome games), a huge hit with the ladies (top models have given him their phone numbers), speaks many different languages, and he's a huge anime fan. But he's artsy and metro and even uses social networking sites! You don't want his kind in the Linux community, right?
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel