Seotch-san (the author) has just released two new editions in Japanese and I’m busy editing pages, and others are busy transcribing and translating in the google group. We could do with some help doing either translation or transcription of the Japanese intot he google spreadsheets. Information is available here if you can help us.

Also needed are two artworks which go on the Stop pages, to explain to English readers how to read Manga right to left instead of the western left to right. In the last edition I personally did the work taking over from the fabulous ~c-quel who did all the previous editions. You can see the past stop/go pages here.

So if you’d like to be involved in drawing some Manga art for Ubuntu, this is your opportunity. The work needs to be related to the chapter it’ll go into, and either be vector svg or high resolution raster png file format. Please comment below to get involved!

P.S. These are the last two chapters of Ubunchu, after this, I don’t think there will be any more.

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Go to Chapter 04

This chapter is all about the lovely Risa creating a short comic and the discussions the systems administration club is having about licensing. Wonderfully done by Seotch san as always and I hope you enjoy it too.

The next goal is to keep on raising money to be able to buy print outs of all the information we want to communicate with attendees. So if you’ve not yet, please do consider sending $10 to our marketing campaign, after all it’s not often that we get to do marketing events of this size in the usa and we’d love to have print outs of the Ubunchu Manga to give out.

If you’ve also got good ideas for the kinds of material we should be giving out, let us know. Comments and emails are very welcome. We want to make this awesome event really go down with the very best marketing materials we have.

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It’s a lovely work and is downloadable in SVG and rendered in inkscape. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike.

The problem was I feel, was that the style of the guide I wanted to make was more conservative than C-Quel’s style, I also wanted to make sure I wasn’t suggesting that only women in dresses have problems. So I set about modifying the SVG to produce some more professional, slightly more western eyes and clothes.

Your thoughts, dear reader?

This chapter tells the story of our system admin club members negotiating their way through the Ubuntu Forums, will they find geeks replaying with RTFM posts or will they find a kinder and more helpful community. And why has Akane, our skilled hacker, never posted to a forum before?

You’ll have to download it to find out!

Stay tuned to learn how our protagonists will fair when they search the Ubuntu forums and IRC channels for help!

I also quickly put together a new ubunchu website to show all the chapters, wallpapers and other various goings on.

In related news, today I did a nice interview with the BBC Radio Five program “Pods and Blogs“, they’ll let me know when it’ll be aired and I’ll of course let all you guys know so you can listen to me explaining what Ubuntu is and what Ubunchu is and why there is a manga of a software project, we also talked about the Boston Anime event that we still need your help funding.

Big thanks to C-quel for commissioning great works and pushing creative commons, hayashinomura for doing great art work and of course Seotch for the original ideas and designs.

It’s here! The second chapter of the Ubunchu Manga:

This is the Left to Right English translation, there is the Right to Left (traditional), Korean, Spanish and French versions that are being worked on too.

I would like to thank Seotch for being so accommodating and for making image edits, I’d like to thank the Japanese LoCo member Fumihito Yoshida who translated the majority into Engrish and finally C-Quel aka Arturo for doing a ton of things from translations, image editing, proof reading and well he rocks. Working together it has only taken us a week to edit, translate and publish this manga.

There are two more chapters that are known, these are waiting on releases from the publishers, so stay tuned.