I went to the Tokyo2Point0 event last night.
There were 250
people there, so it was a packed house for sure. Really nice to catch up with a
bunch of people. I haven't been to one of these events in many months.
Just been too busy. It was also to good to see Michael Sullivan do a
short talk on the OpenSolaris
Bible Translation Project, too.
The OpenSolaris Community in Japan will participate at the Spring Tokyo
Open Source Conference with three talks from Keiichi Oono, Kenichi
Mizoguchi, and Masafumi Ohta on February 27th. See Ohta-san's announcement in Japanese and English.
There's a new element coming to the OpenSolaris Bible translation project. Michael Sullivan, an OpenSolaris developer in Tokyo, has joined the project started a few months ago by Ken Okubo. Michael is building a series of technical presentations based on the book to help validate the translation into Japanese and also help get the book's content out into the community. He'll be talking about the idea at various community events in Tokyo (Tokyo2Point0, Tokyo Linux User Group, OpenSolaris User Group) to get people involved, and then we'll schedule the presentations as part of the Tokyo OpenSolaris Study Group meetings (date TBD). Discussions are also taking place in the community (here, here) about this latest phase of the project.
There were two sessions (beginners/advanced) at the monthly Tokyo OpenSolaris
Study Group on Saturday:
A third concurrent session will be opened hopefully starting in
February or March. More info soon. Subscribe to ug-jposug
and ug-tsug
to participate.
More info about the OpenSolaris communtiy
in Japan here. More OpenSolaris photos here.
Some images from the OpenSolaris Night Seminar in Tokyo earlier this evening with presentations from Junko Yoshida, Mami Sueki, and Shoji Haraguchi. Video from Shoji Haraguchi here.
Hundreds more images from the OpenSolaris community in Japan right here.
Shoji Haraguchi just announced the next OpenSolaris Night Seminar in Tokyo. It will be on January 22nd in Jingumae. On tap will be Crossbow and Solaris Containers. Register early. These seminars generally fill up pretty quickly, and there's only room for about 100 people in the room. You know, we really could use some bigger conference rooms to hold these events. Lots of people are interested in OpenSolaris in Tokyo. See you there.
The OpenSolaris Community will participate at 2010 Japan Developer Summit in Tokyo February 18-19. Subscribe to ug-jposug and ug-tsug for more information.
I stopped by the OpenSolaris Hot Topics Seminar in Jingumae tonight ...
Here are the
presentations and videos from the event from Shoji Haraguchi.
Japanese language only. See Shoji's YouTube space
for more OpenSolaris videos.
The OpenSolaris community in Japan participated at a charity event last night -- Tokyo's Biggest Tech Party Ever. I don't know if it was the biggest ever, but there were 400 people there throughout the evening from over a dozen tech communities in the city. Michael Sullivan, who leads the Tokyo OSUG and who got us involved in the event, auctioned off a bag stuffed full of OpenSolaris and Glassfish items (shirts, CDs, books, mice, pens, pads, hats, and whatever else we could find). Good time. Some images.
Members of the OpenSolaris Community in Japan will be participating in three community events this week Tokyo's Biggest Tech Party Ever (A Charity Event), OpenSolaris Hot Topics Seminar, and the Tokyo Linux User Group's Technical Meeting & Bonenkai.
Should be a pretty busy week to end the year around here. I'll take
some images. If you are in the area, stop by. After that I am taking a
couple of weeks off -- no email, no cell phone, no Internet, no
nothing. Just fresh air.
I stopped by the Tokyo OpenSolaris Study Group meeting in Yoga today. The guys were running two consecutive sessions on ZFS, Solaris Internals, and Driver Development. Good turn out for a Saturday afternoon, too. About 35 people came to the sessions with another 30 or so contributing on IRC at #opensolaris-jp on Freenode. Here are some images:
The Tokyo OpenSolaris Study Group grew out of the Japan OpenSolaris
User Group. Here are some links to more information about the OpenSolaris
community in Japan. And here is a stash of several years of images from OpenSolaris in Japan.
There is an interesting discussion going on in the Japan OpenSolaris Community. Ken Okubo has been floating the idea of translating the OpenSolaris Bible into Japanese. The thread is getting long and it looks like there is some progress. Translating a book that is over a thousand pages long as a community project is a big deal. If you'd like to contribute, ping Ken on ug-jposug at opensolaris dot org. He's a good guy. Sign up to the JPOSUG list here.
Imagine how helpful it would be to get such a book localized into Japanese. It would be a fantastic community-building tool.
Here are some images from the Fall 2009 Tokyo Open Source Conference.
The OpenSolaris community participated with presentations from Reiko
Saito and Masafumi Ohta and a
booth full of demos for the weekend event. There are some NetBeans and Linux guys mixed in here as well. There were dozens and dozens of communities there.
There are two events coming up in Tokyo for the OpenSolaris community. See Shoji's announcement. The first is an OpenSolaris Night Seminar at Sun's Jingumae office on Friday, and the other will be activities at the Tokyo Open Source Conference
on Saturday. Stop by. We'll have some interesting presentations from
Sun Japan engineers and community members. Also, there will be plenty
of OpenSolaris CDs and t-shirts and such. And a nomi, too. Should be
fun.
The Japanese OpenSolaris Community will be at the Tokyo
Open Source Conference next week (30th and 31st). The Japan OpenSolaris User Group guys will be there with talks about their group activities, and Sun`s
Reiko Saito will present on how to contribute translations to the
community. Stop by.
I am building out a page of resources contributed to the community from the Tokyo OpenSolaris User Group. If you have something to contribute that you want posted, ping ug-tsug at opensolaris dot org (subscribe here).
Also, I am looking for people who are interested in editing the TSUG
website when we move to XWiki on hub.opensolaris.org in two weeks. Here is the current list of leaders. We
need editors, translators, coders, writers, photographers, videographers, designers, organizers, students,
professors, business guys etc. Everything. And, of course, if you are
interested in presenting something on OpenSolaris or Open Source or community development we'd be happy to
have you talk as well.
Martin Schmidt, from the Osnabrück OpenSolaris User Group in Germany, stopped by Tokyo tonight so we went out for a little dinner with Masafumi Ohta and Michael Sullivan. Nice time.
A few guys from the Tokyo OpenSolaris User
Group will be getting
together
tomorrow night for a beer (nomikai). Martin Schmidt
from the
Osnabrück
OSUG in Germany will here, so it will be great to meet him and talk all
things East and West. But there
is also a
big
hairy
typhoon spinning its way to Tokyo. So, we may get wet.
The Japan OpenSolaris User Group will hold two meetings tomorrow, September 26th, at Sun's Yoga office in Tokyo. See Shoji Haraguchi's announcement here. See directions here. Beginning and advanced users/developers are welcome. Both meetings will be in Japanese.
I stopped by the Tokyo Hackerspace Open House today in Shirokanedai. Really nice day to welcome a new community of hackers, builders, and artists into existence. This space, which is a two story house in Tokyo with a backyard, is a welcome distinction to a virtual world filled with distributed digital networks. Tokyo Hackerspace is local and quite physical, and it grew out the community activities at Tokyo BarCamp in May. It`s very cool. Go to the site. Join the mailing list. Stop by the house. Get involved -- physically.
I hope to check out three community events in Tokyo in the next week or so:
- 7/10:
OpenSolaris User Group: ZFS and OpenSolaris Security
- 7/11: Tokyo Linux
User Group: Network Security and ZFS
- 7/13:
Tokyo2Point0: Cloud Computing and Lightning Talks
The timing is good, too. Canon called. They fixed my lens.
The Japan OpenSolaris Community together on Saturday. Nice day (and night). About 60 people came by for the three sessions, two of which were in Japanese and the third in English. Then all three groups came together for a nomikai. I think the model works well to start integrating the Japanese and international OpenSolaris communities.
I used a new lens
for this event. My f/1.4 lens is getting fixed, so I borrowed Jon`s
50mm f/1.2, which is one scary smart lens. It`s a tad expensive, too,
so I was more than a little nervous shooting with it. Anyway, at f/1.2 the
focus is just razor thin. Focus on someone`s glasses and their entire face
is out. I messed up a few images that way, but by the end of the night
I was getting used to it. Amazing piece of glass. By the way, you can see Jon`s stuff
here. He`s one of the best photographers around.
I went to the Tokyo launch of OpenSolaris 2009.06 at Sun's office in
Jingumae earlier tonight. Good turn out of about 100 people. The
lineup: Introduction, Akira Ohsone; OpenSolaris 2009.06, Shunsuke
Kuroda; OpenSolaris Demo, Shoji Haraguchi; Solaris 10 5/09, Hiroaki
Nozaki; and CommunityOne West Report, Masafumi Ohta. See videos here from Shoji. This is the third
such launch of OpenSolaris in Tokyo. Both the 2008.05 and 2008.11
events were excellent as well. Tonight seemed to be an interesting mix
of Sun Solaris 10 customers and the growing OpenSolaris communities in
Tokyo. There was also some chatter on #opensolaris-jp on IRC.
Nice night.
OpenSolaris in Japan: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/tags/jposug
OpenSolaris Launches in Japan: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/tags/os-tokyo-launches
The OpenSolaris community in Japan is planning its second multi-session user group meeting -- combining the Japan OSUG and the Tokyo OSUG. The meeting will be in Sun`s Yoga office (directions with photos here) on Saturday June 27th. It`s a killer line up, too. Stop by if you are new to OpenSolaris or if you are an experienced developer. All are welcome. I have OpenSolaris t-shirts to give out, too.
I've been thinking that it might be an interesting time to do a little kernel conference for OpenSolaris, Linux, and the BSDs right here in Tokyo. Get everyone together. See what happens. What the heck.
We could hold the event right at the Sun office on the 27th floor just like BarCamp back in May. We already hold the Tokyo Linux User Group meetings here and get about 40 people each time, we hold OpenSolaris meetings and get about 40 people (and about 100 for formal product launches), and BarCamp drew 100 people from multiple communities. That`s basically where I got the idea from -- and, of course, watching James C. McPherson put together his kernel conference in Australia. So, I wonder what would happen if we organized a day long conference specifically to bring together developers and community members from the key open source operating systems in an informal, un-conference format? I wonder what technology and community building bits we could all share together? I bet we could attract 150 top guys from Tokyo, and I bet we'd make quite an impression in the process. And I think there is more than enough talent right here to pull it off without having to call in people from the U.S. or Europe (although they'd certainly be welcome to come and participate, of course).
Just kicking this idea around ...
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