OSS meetups in Japan Case study of Kernel Code Reading Party

Hiro Yoshioka http://tech.rakuten.co.jp

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Summary

•  OSS Meetups, Conferences in Japan •  Community Driven Value Creation

We will discuss about OSS meetups and community driven value creation. There are many active user group meetings, seminars, meetups, events, and parties in Japan. We exchange not only technical information but also tacit knowledge and we are building network of OSS professionals. We will share OSS community management tips, challenge, and show my experience. I have led an informal seminar series, known as Linux Kernel Code Reading Party with members of YLUG (Yokohama Linux Users Group) since April of 1999. Also I am a founder of Study groups study group. The target audience will be a community manager, community leader, event organizer. No technical expertise is required.

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Agenda

•  Why do I introduce them to you? •  OSS Meetups, Conferences in Japan •  Community Driven Value Creation

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Why do I introduce them to you?

•  There are many good community activities in Japan.

•  However most of meetings, conferences do not have English information (pages). •  You may not know them.

•  Let’s share our experience with you J •  They have some good practices.

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IT Seminar Calendar of Japan http://bit.ly/QmRFiS more than 300 meetings/month

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whoami

Name: Hiro Yoshioka Title: Technical Managing Officer Company: Rakuten, Inc 2009 – present My mission: Empower Our Engineers Twitter: @hyoshiok http://d.hatena.ne.jp/hyoshiok (Diary in Japanese) http://someday-join-us.blogspot.jp/ (in English)

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whoami

Name: Hiro Yoshioka 2000-2008, Miracle Linux, CTO 2002 OSDL board member I have one patch to Linux Kernel J x86: cache pollution aware patch 2006/6/23, 2.6.18 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c22ce143d15eb288543fe9873e1c5ac1c01b69a1

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Who are we?

l  Rakuten, Inc.

l  Internet services company

l  Founded : Feb. 7th 1997, Tokyo, Japan

l  The first service: Rakuten Ichiba (shopping mall)

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Who are we?

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Rakuten in Japan

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Formats of Technical Meetings

•  Meetings •  Seminars •  Workshops •  Hackathon •  Conferences

We’ll introduce community driven activities.

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Meetings/Seminars

•  Running by volunteers •  Free of Charge (or share some expense) •  Numbers attendees; less than 100 •  Sharing technical knowledge and networking •  Beer Bash or Drinking Party (optional) •  Examples, Kernel Code Reading Party, •  http://www.ylug.jp/modules/pukiwiki/

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Workshops/Hackathon •  Running by volunteers •  Free of Charge (or share some expense) •  Numbers attendees; less than 50 •  Sharing technical knowledge and networking •  Beer Bash or Drinking Party (optional) •  Examples, DevLove, TDD Boot Camp,

http://www.devlove.org/ http://devtesting.jp/tddbc/

http://www.manaslink.com/articles/7273 CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

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Conference

•  Running by volunteers •  Inexpensive, e.g., 5000 yen/day ($50/day) •  Numbers attendees; more than 100 - 1000 •  Sharing technical knowledge and networking •  Beer Bash or Drinking Party (optional) •  Examples, LL event, PHP Conference, YAPC

(Yet another perl conference), RubyKaigi, Tokyo Node Gakuen (Javascript)

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Conferences in Japan 䜹䞁䝣䜯䝺䞁䝇䜹䞁䝣䜯䝺䞁䝇

http://ll.jus.or.jp/2013/ http://phpcon.php.gr.jp/w/2012/ http://yapcasia.org/2013/ http://2012.pycon.jp/index.html http://nodefest.jp/2012/ http://rubykaigi.org/2013

http://connpass.com/event/2253/?disp_content=presentation#tabs

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cf. Commercial Conference

•  Running by corporation •  Expensive, e.g., $300-$500/day •  Numbers attendees; more than 1000 •  Sharing technical knowledge and networking •  Party (optional) •  Examples, OSCON $2045 (5 days),

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013

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Informal Technical Seminar, case study

•  Kernel Code Reading Party, Informal technical seminar and beer bash (party) founded by myself and running by YLUG (Yokohama Linux Users Group)

•  Since April 28, 1999

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Brief History

•  I was wondering if I could read the kernel source code in 1999.

•  So I started a meeting with YLUG members. •  http://www.ylug.jp/modules/pukiwiki/

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Brief History

•  I named the Kernel Code Reading Party but actually we are not reading the code these days. J

•  Having informal technical seminar and beerbash (Pizza and Beer) is our style.

•  http://www.ylug.jp/modules/pukiwiki/?history

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Brief History

•  Friends, Network of Friends, •  Value, innovation, etc •  Streaming videos, presentations are archived. •  http://www.ylug.jp/modules/pukiwiki/?reading

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Brief History

•  We proud many friends contribute the linux kernel, make great things.

•  TOMOYO, IPv6, NILFS, Fault injection, system tap, many many things

•  http://www.ylug.jp/modules/pukiwiki/?history

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My Motivation and Passion

•  Having technical meetings with friends in Japan. •  Making many friends contribute the open source •  Having fun with another groups •  Having a party with kernel hackers •  Making the world love and peace: world

domination J •  Many dreams come true by the kernel code

reading party.

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Volunteer driven meetups, conference

•  Good Points •  Organizer; You can organize what you want.

•  Contents, speakers, date, time, place, fee •  Presenters; You can share your idea. •  Participants;

•  Bad Points •  You need to do everything. (You may have

help from community)

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Sustainable meetups, conference

•  Value of meetup > Cost of meetups •  Increase value •  Decrease cost

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Practical Guide to make meetups

•  Making Contents •  Speakers •  Schedule

•  Booking Venue/Room •  Hotel (expensive), University, Office

•  Announcement •  Registrations •  Operations

•  streaming

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Tokyo is not Silicon Valley

•  Commercial conference for a niche market (edge) is unlikely held.

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Practical Guide to make meetups

•  Why don’t you make your own meetups in your city. ;-)

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Our Challenges

•  Diversity •  OSS and community

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Conference by Organization + Volunteers

https://twitter.com/kkitase/status/340028337483292672

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Hybrid meetups, conference

https://twitter.com/kkitase/status/340028337483292672

•  NPO + Volunteers •  Company + Volunteers

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Rakuten Technology Conference; an annual conference by Rakuten since 2007. http://tech.rakuten.co.jp/rtc2012

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Oct 26th

October 26, 2013

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keynote speakers

Matz

Dave Thomas

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Summary.

http://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/engineer/

•  Volunteer driven OSS meetings, conference have many values.

•  Why don’t you start your own conference at your home town?