[advocacy-discuss] Report: OpenSolaris at the Tokyo OSC 2009

[Jim Grisanzio]

hey ...

I want to a little open source conference here in Tokyo over the weekend 
(about a thousand people over two days). There were 4 talks on 
OpenSolaris (DTrace and xVM, EeePC, OSUM, Globalization). The sessions 
were all full (about 50 people each), which was very encouraging. 
Everything took place in Japanese, but Ohta-san wrote his EeePC slides 
in English so I put them on the Advocacy files page because I know the 
EeePC is popular in other regions.

EeePC
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/files/OpenSolaris_on_EeePC_OSC_spring_u2.pdf

Images:
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/opensolaris_at_the_tokyo_osc

In general, the Japanese-speaking community in Tokyo has been growing 
consistently and it's now noticeable. A variety of contributions are 
coming in, there is a new distribution, there is a repository, there are 
regular interactions with other communities, non-Sun people are 
presenting at events, university students are getting involved and 
forming new groups on campus, the Japan OSUG has started holding 
technical study groups on the weekends in addition to their regular 
monthly meetings, the ug-jposug list has over 200 people and activity is 
constant, and it's quite normal to get 80 or so people for OpenSolaris 
events and the bigger sessions draw about 125. As this Japanese 
community grows, we are trying to connect it to the many international 
communities in Tokyo so we can bridge to English and go global. It's 
getting interesting here.

The OpenSolaris community is obviously still pretty small globally, but 
it's important that we step back and quantify what we have because I'm 
convinced we are doing more than we are even aware of.

Let us know what's going on where you are ...

Jim