[advocacy-discuss] Community Buiding Efforts in China -- 365 Days, 122 Events, 19600 Attendees

[Jim Grisanzio]

Wow. Excellent.

I've participated in a few of these events below. They are huge fun. And
the excitement coming out of China these days is very cool. The energy
is palpable, actually. And I also have to say that I'm impressed with
how you guys manage all these events. The logistics must be frightening.


Qingye Jiang (John) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> By way of introduction, I am the Senior Manager of Sun Developer
> Network in China, and I run (most of) the developer outreach
> activities (along with several business units in Sun) in China. 

And you are also quite a star too: :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimgris/1855003351/in/set-72157602720298520/


> During FY08 (2007.07.01 -- 2008.06.31) there were a total number of
> 122 technology outreach events of different scale happened in China,
> covering a total number of 19600 attendees. That's to say, one event
> every 3 days, with an average number of 160 attendees.
>
> This achievement was the combined effort of the Technology Outreach
> Group under Matt Thompson, the Sun China ERI University Program under
> Sin-Yaw Wang, and the GSS Open Community Team under James Bai. The
> Asian Globalization Center (AGC), the ISV-E team, and the Solaris
> Engineering team at Sun China ERI also contributed significantly to
> this milestone.
>
> If any of you are coming to China, and would like to join our
> community building efforts in China, please kindly let me know, 


I'll be back this fall for sure. Would love to connect again. I'm
talking to the Linux community in Beijing about a possible visit, so
when I finalize a week I'll let you know. I'm especially interested in
going to more universities. And I'd like to also get a sense of what's
going on outside of Beijing and Shanghai. I understand that several
other areas are expanding rapidly as well, such as Dalian, which I
understand has a big Japanese-speaking community and a lot of Japanese
companies. If I can make some China-Japan connections, that would be
golden.

Jim
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