[opensuse-marketing] [Off Topic] Report from Japan
Hello mates, sorry for my off topic post. As all of you may know, Japan was struck by a strong earthquake and tsunami last week. Fortunately, I myself and my family live in Tokyo and escaped serious damage. I want to take this opportunity to thank community people who have been worried about my safety. However, the earthquake and tsunami did tremendous damage to eastern part of Japan. As far as we can count so far, the number of dead stands at more than 7,000, the number of missing stands at more than 10,000 and more than 450,000 people are still taking shelter in uncomfortable surroundings. A serious nuclear power plant disaster is now going on and due to the shutdown of some power plants which were damaged by the quake/tsunami, rolling blackouts are now implemented in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Although the quake/tsumani did little damage to Tokyo directly, we are still in messy situation. Supermarkets in the Tokyo region have been stripped bare of food and other daily necessities and many people are facing gasoline shortages (well, please do not too much worry about me because I myself have stockpiled enough foods and will be all right for the meantime ;-)). http://fooyoh.com/news/5919548 It is gratifying that you all are haveing fun with tweaking brand-new openSUSE 11.4, but I myself am not able to attend *the party* and really enjoy ATM. I'm now trying to save on electricity so that I can't contribute as much as usual. I hope you can understand my situation, and I would appreciate it if you pray for Japan. Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Le 19/03/2011 07:45, Satoru Matsumoto a écrit :
Hello mates,
sorry for my off topic post.
not at ball, I was glad to hear from you! Please, if we can do anything usefull, say so jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Le 19/03/2011 09:22, jdd a écrit :
Le 19/03/2011 07:45, Satoru Matsumoto a écrit :
Hello mates,
sorry for my off topic post.
not at ball,
at *all*, sorry jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Satoru Matsumoto <helios_reds@gmx.net> wrote:
As all of you may know, Japan was struck by a strong earthquake and tsunami last week. Fortunately, I myself and my family live in Tokyo and escaped serious damage.
We've been watching the news - the reports from Japan are so terribly sad, and you are all very much in our thoughts. I'm glad to hear that you and your family are safe and well. To echo JDD, if there is ever anything we might do to help, please don't hesitate to ask. take care, Helen -- IRC: helen_au helen.south@opensuse.org helensouth.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
We (me and other italians geekos) are very happy to hear from you. I hope that the situation gets better as soon as possible... hawake -- Linux user number 433087 Linux registered machine number 351448 http://counter.li.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On 19/03/2011 10:25 πμ, Helen South wrote:
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Satoru Matsumoto<helios_reds@gmx.net> wrote:
As all of you may know, Japan was struck by a strong earthquake and tsunami last week. Fortunately, I myself and my family live in Tokyo and escaped serious damage. We've been watching the news - the reports from Japan are so terribly sad, and you are all very much in our thoughts.
I'm glad to hear that you and your family are safe and well.
To echo JDD, if there is ever anything we might do to help, please don't hesitate to ask.
take care,
Helen
Hello, I don't know the financial of openSUSE and don't know if we already did. Why don't we donate an amount for the Japan disaster? As we say, openSUSE is more than an IT product. It's the people of openSUSE. Take care Stathis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Le 21/03/2011 11:09, Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) a écrit :
I don't know the financial of openSUSE and don't know if we already did. Why don't we donate an amount for the Japan disaster? As we say, openSUSE is more than an IT product. It's the people of openSUSE.
right now, I know of no official donation system. Japan seems not to ask for help now. Time will certainly come when it will be necessary. Japan needs now to recover from collapsing. Of course, if there is a way we can help, this should be good!! jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxog7_clip-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere-3-bad-pig... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgv_ZFtV14 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday, March 19, 2011 02:45:18 AM Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
Hello mates,
sorry for my off topic post.
As all of you may know, Japan was struck by a strong earthquake and tsunami last week. Fortunately, I myself and my family live in Tokyo and escaped serious damage. I want to take this opportunity to thank community people who have been worried about my safety.
However, the earthquake and tsunami did tremendous damage to eastern part of Japan. As far as we can count so far, the number of dead stands at more than 7,000, the number of missing stands at more than 10,000 and more than 450,000 people are still taking shelter in uncomfortable surroundings. A serious nuclear power plant disaster is now going on and due to the shutdown of some power plants which were damaged by the quake/tsunami, rolling blackouts are now implemented in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
Although the quake/tsumani did little damage to Tokyo directly, we are still in messy situation. Supermarkets in the Tokyo region have been stripped bare of food and other daily necessities and many people are facing gasoline shortages (well, please do not too much worry about me because I myself have stockpiled enough foods and will be all right for the meantime ;-)). http://fooyoh.com/news/5919548
It is gratifying that you all are haveing fun with tweaking brand-new openSUSE 11.4, but I myself am not able to attend *the party* and really enjoy ATM. I'm now trying to save on electricity so that I can't contribute as much as usual. I hope you can understand my situation, and I would appreciate it if you pray for Japan.
Best,
Now I am happy to know you and your family are OK. I was really worry about that for several days ago despite Jos told were OK by irc channel. It's terrible what happen there and I am sure everybody can understand the hard time you are having at this right moment. I really appreciate your contributions to openSUSE community and sure other too. But at this moment you need to take care about your family and your inmediate community to rebuild it stronger as always you did. Hope we can hear about you as soon as everything comes to normal again. Wishing you the best, -- Ricardo Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador Panama openSUSE 11.4 | KDE 4.6.00 release 6 | Mesa 3D-Nouveau Gallium 7.10 video drivers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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