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

[Qingye Jiang (John)]

Hi Jim,

Thanks a lot for the commends. I am aware of your planning visit to
Beijing Linux User Group. Will certainly love to bring you to more
places beyond Beijing and Shanghai -- if you have the time.

Best regards,

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Jim Grisanzio 写道:
> 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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