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About myself

My name is Masayuki Hatta (Masayuki is the given name, Hatta is the family name). I was born in July 31th, 1979, and currently live with my family in the suburb of Tokyo, Japan. My bio on Wikipedia Japanese (ja).
mhatta's faceI received a BA in economics (2002) and a MA in economics from the University of Tokyo (2004). Currently, I am pursuing my Ph.D. in economics at Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo.
My research field is called organizational studies, and I am interested in the process of collaborative knowledge development. I am also interested in the economic analysis of law, especially its application to the system of copyright law. I was one of government-funded AFS exchange students, and lived in Hopewell Junction, NY, USA in 1997-8.

Activities

In my free time, I am involved with the following activities.

Debian-related

I have been a Debian GNU/Linux user since ca. 1997, became a member of Debian JP Project in 1998, and have been an official developer of Debian Project since 2000. Debian Packages overview will show you what I maintain now.
Besides being a package maintainer, I translated Debian New Maintainers' Guide into Japanese. Also, I have been contributing a monthly column entitled Debian Tsu-shin (Debian Letters in English) to Open Source Magazine (ja) from 2002 to 2006. Recently I became one of Application Managers for Debian New Maintainer Process.

Free (Libre) Software-related

I have been involved with the Free (Libre) Software movement since around 1998. I translated most of GNU webpages into Japanese, including GNU GPL / LGPL / FDL. Once I served the chief translation coordinator at GNU Project and one of the members of Discussion committee D on GPLv3 Revision Process. I am currently one of the GNU webmasters.
I received the Linux Conference 2002 OSDL Award for my article about the concept and working of Copyleft. Since then, I serve as a member of programming committee for Linux Conference (ja).
I am the current maintainer of GNU a2ps.

Open Source-related

I personally prefer the term "Free Software" to "Open Source", but I translated The Open Source Definition into Japanese (ja). I organize an annual conference called Open Source Way since 2002 and a member of Open Source Group Japan (OSG-JP).
Besides, as a member of Translation team for Japanese at Translation Project, I maintain several Japanese message catalog (ja.po) for free software.
I have contributed several articles or comments on Open Source to renowned Japanese magazines or newspapers. Also I have been invited and given lectures or talks on Open Source at various kind of occasions.

Music-related

I love music, especially Jazz. Besides being an amateur Jazz pianist, I am a member of Jazz Discography Project and maintain discographies for several geniuses, including Bud Powell, Lennie Tristano and Phineas Newborn, Jr. I was one of the new disc reviewers for the Jazz Hihyo (Jazz Critique in English) magazine for a while and am a member of Jazz Journalist Association. Here is the list of my Jazz CD collection and Rock CD collection.
Recently, I started an Internet Radio station called Com-post Radio(active), which mainly plays Jazz.

Publications

I co-authored the following books:

Economics/Management Theory-related

Software-related

Music-related

  • Jazz "Meien": The Best CD ("Legendary Performances" in Jazz: The Best CDs in English), Bessatsu Takarajima 1004, Takarajima-sha, 2004
I co-supervised the Japanese translation of the following books:

Contact

In case you want to reach me, please use e-mail; my e-mail address is mhatta at mhatta.org, with replacing "at" with "@". I am trying hard to respond your mail as quickly as possible, but recently I get tons of e-mails I need to write back everyday, so please bear some delay. If you do not get any response from me within two weeks, try another address.

You might catch me on Identi.ca, Twitter (ja), or FriendFeed (ja). Also, I joined several social network services such as Mixi (ja) or Facebook.