An overview of open source in East Asia (China, Japan, Korea)

An Overview of
Open Source
in East Asia
Minwoo Park ( Inmobi )
Sungju Jin ( Korea Telecom )

Speakers
Sungju Jin( @geekbeast )
http://softwaregeeks.org
I work for Korea Telecom and
building mobile backend
service called 'baas.io'
Previously
* KTH
* Samsung Electronics
Minwoo Park( @tebica )
http://earlybird.kr/
I work for Inmobi Korea
as a Solution Engineer
Previously
* KTH

Speaker
Minwoo Park( @tebica )
http://earlybird.kr/
Python Korea
Hackathon
Run dev Conferences
Python KoreaPython KoreaPython KoreaPython KoreaPython Korea

Contents
1. Community
2. Why Asia?
3. China
4. Japan
5. Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed with Asia

Open Source software
- Community
= Nothing
1. Community

What are we missing?
1. Community

Double the Community
1. Community

Double the Community
Double the Success!
1. Community

Open SourceAsia
Asia just met
OSS

US Open Source Community
- 10 years
= Asia Open Source Community
1. Community

3.China
http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/morton1905/8710295640

Contents
1. Community
2. Why Asia?
3.China
4. Japan
5. Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia
1)Market
2)Population
3)Closed
4)Open Source
5)Community

Contents
1)Market
2)Population
3)Closed
4)Open Source
5)Community
1. Community
2. Why Asia?
3.China
4. Japan
5. Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia

3.1 China > Market
Source : http://blog.ﬂurry.com/bid/83261/China-Now-Leads-the-World-in-New-iOS-and-Android-Device-Activations

3.1 China > Market
QQ messaging platform
784,000,000 Active accounts
Source : http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/23/2726553/sina-weibo-microblogging-record-chinese-new-year

3.1 China > Market
QQ messaging platform
784,000,000 Active accounts
= population X 2

3.1 China > Market
Weibo
32,312
msg / sec
Twitter
25,088
msg / sec
2012 Chinese new year...
>
-Twitter’s record

3.2 China > Population
China
India
US
0 375,000,000 750,000,000 1,125,000,000 1,500,000,000
China is currently the most
populous country on Earth
Source : http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/china-in-numbers_50290a68bac7b.gif

Largest Internet Population
591,000,000
+ Adding 1.6 every second
Sources : http://www.techinasia.com/cnniic-china-web-mobile-user-data-for2013/
http://www.slideshare.net/wearesocialsg/we-are-socials-guide-to-social-digital-and-mobile-in-china-2nd-edition-jan-2013

Number of IT
professionals 1,200,000
Sources:http://images.onlineuniversityrankings.com.s3.amazonaws.com/america-meet-china.jpg
http://www.slideshare.net/jaaronfarr/open-source-in-china-updated

Number of IT
professionals 1,200,000
Sources:http://images.onlineuniversityrankings.com.s3.amazonaws.com/america-meet-china.jpg
http://www.slideshare.net/jaaronfarr/open-source-in-china-updated
+ Graduate 100,000
programmers each year

3.3 China > Closed
• Sites that blocked in China
• Twitter
• Facebook
• YouTube
• Google Play, Google Plus,
Google Docs, Picasa...
• Gmail works, but blocked once on Nov 2012
• Github works, but blocked once on Jan 2013

The Map of Cyber
censorship
Enemies of Internet
Countries under surveillance
source : Reporters Without Borders
http://march12.rsf.org/en/#ccenemies
3.3 China > Closed

ICP license
(Internet Content Provider)
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license
3.3 China > Closed
Getting a homepage in China

3.4 China > Open Source
Barriers of Open source in China
• Piracy
• Language
• Closed internet

Country Piracy Rate
US 19%
China 77%
Japan 21%
Korea 40%
Source : BSA (Business Software Alliance) 2011 Piracy Study
http://globalstudy.bsa.org/2011/downloads/study_pdf/2011_BSA_Piracy_Study-InBrief.pdf
Piracy hurts Open Source
Free MS Widows / MS Oﬃce in China?

Languages in China
Lots of
spoken
languages

open source project
in a closed internet?

Country Percentage of Visitors
India 17.1%
US 16.2%
China 14.8%
Source : http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/github.com
Top 3 countries

has lots of open source projects
has great Engineering blog
Alibaba Group started
to embrace open source

Code Alibaba ( > 100 open-source projects)
http://code.alibabatech.com

TaoCode ( > 373 open-source projects)
http://code.taobao.org

3.5 China > Community
Linux communities in China
http://www.redﬂag-linux.com/community.html

• http://oss.org.cn/
• http://oschina.net
• http://www.openfans.org/
• http://www.csdn.net/
• http://www.lupaworld.com/
• http://python.cn/
• http://ruby-china.org/
3.5 China > Community

Speakers
Sungju Jin ( @geekbeast )
http://softwaregeeks.org
I work for Korea Telecom
and building mobile
backend service called
'baas.io'
Previously
* KTH
Programming Android;
Easy development of
Android (2011)

4.Japan
http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/lisa_joy/6328028147/

Contents
1. Community
2. Why Asia?
3. China
4.Japan
5. Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia
1)Rich
2)Ruby Creator
3)Open Source
4)Community

3.2. Japan > Rich!
11 USA $ 49,922
12 Austria $ 47,083
13 Japan $ 46,736
14 Nederland $ 46,142
15 Finland $ 46,098
16 Ireland $ 45,888
..................
33 Korea $ 23,113
..................
86 China $ 6,076
Source : List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita
List of countries by GDP per capita

3.2. Japan > Rich!
Country Volume(USD billions) Share(%)
1 USA 339.6 38.9
2 Japan 71.7 8.21
3 United Kingdom 67.1 7.69
4 Germany 62.6 7.17
5 France 49.8 5.71
6 Canada 24.8 2.84
7 Italy 24.1 2.76
........................
Total 872.8 100
Source : Abes (2009)
Global Software Market Size

Contents
1)Rich
2)Ruby Creator
3)Open Source
4)Community
1. Community
2. Why Asia?
3. China
4.Japan
5. Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia

3.2. Japan > `Ruby` Creator
Ruby is a language of careful balance.
Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto.

Version Date
1 0.95 1995.12.21
2 1.0 1996.12
3 1.1 1997.08
4 1.2 1998.12
5 1.4 1999.08
6 1.6 2000.09
7 1.8 2003.08
8 1.9 2007.12
9 1.9.2 2010.08
10 1.9.3 2011.10
11 2.0 2013.02.24
Source : Ruby 2.0(en)
https://speakerdeck.com/yukihiro_matz/ruby-2-dot-0-en
“Matz” started developing Ruby in 1993.02.24

Source : http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Ruby11 10 1.479%

Google Trend
http://www.google.co.kr/trends/explore#cat=0-174-231&q=ruby&cmpt=q
Google Trends
“Ruby”

http://www.ruby.or.jp

http://www.rubyworld-conf.org/en/

Rubyist Magazine by Ruby Japan Inc
http://magazine.rubyist.net

• Many japanese have pride ruby and they
make ruby curriculum for school students

• Shinjuku.rb ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/shinjuku.rb/ )
• Yokohama.rb( http://bukt.org/groups/3 )
• Okinawa.rb( http://qwik.jp/okinawarb/ )
• Hiroshima.rb( http://hiroshimarb.github.io/ )
• Shibuya.rb( https://www.facebook.com/groups/shibuya.rb/ )
• Rails Girls Tokyo( https://www.facebook.com/groups/113145785502645/ )
• Ruby Sapporo( http://ruby-sapporo.org )
• Tokyo Rails Study Group( https://www.facebook.com/groups/133320066732707/ )
• nshg.rb( https://www.facebook.com/nshgrb )

• "sinsai.info" : Disaster response web project
• 600 information volunteers from 20 countries
• 100 developer from 3 countries
3.2. Japan > Open Source Software

twitter4j ( http://twitter4j.org/en )
3.2. Japan > Open Source Software

3.2. Japan > Community
• Japan has already major global community
branch or agency

• There is many developer community in
Japan ( over 70 )

$10 / day
10:00 ~ 20:00
Open source books
Free opencola(coke)
https://speakerdeck.com/cognitom/kowakingutoopunsosu

5.Korea
http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/koreanet/7628129114/

Korea
http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/koreanet/8022780499

Contents
1. Community
2. Why Asia?
3. China
4. Japan
5.Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia
1)Fast
2)Open Source
3)Community

5. Korea
Total Population 48,861,000
Mobile subscribers 53,609,000 110%
Use Social Network 26,000,000 53%
Internet users 40,328,660 83%

5.1 Korea > Fast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_the_Han_River
South Korea's GDP (PPP) growth from 1911 to 2008

5.1 Korea > Fast
http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/34517346@N02/3395518862

5.1 Korea > Fast
http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/51035715376@N01/375420583

5.1 Korea > Fast
빨리빨리
Hurry up, Hurry up

Contents
1)Fast
2)Open Source
3)Community
1. Community
2. Why Asia?
3. China
4. Japan
5.Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia

5.2 Korea > Open Source
Samsung invests Kernel developments actively
with high interests
Contribution Rank: 23th (2010) - Top 10 (2012)
Top 10 Companies
Redhat
Intel
Novell
IBM
TI
Broadcom
Nokia
Samsung
Oracle
Google
Source : Samsung - The Linux Foundation

Mozilla, Samsung Collaborate on
Next GenerationWeb Browser Engine
Linux Foundation and is
governed by a Technical
Steering Group
https://www.tizen.org/
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on-next-generation-
web-browser-engine/

`Naver` is biggest search site in Korea
http://dev.naver.com/opensource/

Korean developers contribute
various projects
Linux, Apache, OpenOﬃce, Mozilla, JBoss,
Eclipse, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Python, Debian,
GNOME, KDE, Subversion, GCC, Webkit,
Chromium, EFL, GlassFish, LLVM, GForce,
PyPy, TotoiseSVN, TotoiseCVS, PoEdit
Source : http://wiki.kldp.org/wiki.php/KoreanOpenSourceCommitter

Netty( http://netty.io/ )

http://www.cubrid.org/

Hama ( http://hama.apache.org/ )

Tajo ( http://tajo.incubator.apache.org/ )

Tadpole DB Hub
https://github.com/hangum/TadpoleForDBTools/
Tadpole DB Hub is Uniﬁed
infrastructure tool, various
environment based interface for
managing Amazon RDS, MySQL,
MariaDB, Oracle, SQLite, MSSQL,
PostgreSQL, CUBRID and MongoDB
databases

Wand( http://wand-py.org )

OSSIhttp://opensat.cc/
(Open Source Satellite Initiative)

5.3 Korea > Community
KLDP(Korea Linux Documentation Project)
http://kldp.org/

Mozilla Korea Community
http://www.mozilla.or.kr

Korea Community Association
http://kcd.onoﬀmix.com

JCO(Java Community Organization) is
biggest Java Community in Asia
over 100,000
Java Developers Conference (since 2000)

Most communities located in Seoul

6.3 CJK > Government
• OSS Promotion Forum
• OSS Working Group(China, Japan, Korea)
• WG1 - Developing Technology
• WG2 - Education developer
• WG3 - International Standardization
• WG4 - Adaptation and Spread OSS
• Departments
• NIPA(National IT Industry Promotion Agency)
• OPU(China Open Source Software Promotion Union)
• IPA(Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan)

OPU
(China Open Source
Software Promotion
Union)
• Build China OSS Promotion
Union portal
• Northeast Asia Open Source
Software Promotion Forum
• Open source China open source
World Summit and Roundtable
Meeting
• China open source software
competition (Loongson)
• China Linux Kernel Summit
• Asia-Paciﬁc cloud technology
summit
• Asia-Paciﬁc Open Source Big
Data Forum
• Open source in Universities and
SFD China
• Open source cloud computing
and intelligent city
6.3 CJK > Government, China
Source : Development Status of China OSS

6.3 CJK > Government, China
Ubuntu To Become
The Oﬃcial OS Of China
Source http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/ubuntu-to-become-the-oﬃcial-os-of-china

• IPA(Information-technology
Promotion Agency, Japan)
6.3 CJK > Government, Japan
Source : Japan's Open Source Software Policy and Implementation
• OSSAJ(Open Source Software
Association of Japan)
• http://www.ossaj.org/
• In order to spread OSS,
NPO(Non-Proﬁt Organization)
• OSPN(Open Source People
Network)
• http://www.ospn.jp

6.3 CJK > Government, Japan
OSC (Open source conference)
held 17 times in 2012

NIPA
(National IT Industry
Promotion Agency)
• Develop/Community
• Ensuring technology in new
business areas
• Participating in global community
• OSS Specialized Companies
• Pioneering new business market
• Educating advanced talents
• OSS Ordering Agency
• Reducing SW deployment cost
• Overcoming dependency on
certain corporate
• OSS Using Companies
• Spreading utilize of OSS
• Improving SW competitiveness
6.3 CJK > Government, Korea
Source : OSS Policy Direction of KOREA

Korea Government supports
OSS Conference trip
as a open source community support program

Open Source Portal( http://www.oss.kr )

Open Source Software World Challenge 2013
(http://ossaward.org/)
Grand Prize : $80,000

開放原始碼
오픈소스
オープンソース
Language barrier

OPEN
Be open minded

Internationalization
(i18n)

collaborate with
Asian developers ...
If you want to

Focus your project!

Embrace
Asian developers
Don’t be mad at
their poor English

spread to
Asian market...
If you want to

Be open-minded
about culture

Find good
communities

j.mp/asian-communities

If you’re a developer
If you’re an evangelist

Focus your project!

Check Unicode / i18n support
Focus your project!

Be open-minded about culture
Focus your project!

Be open-minded about culture
Talk to Asian communities
Focus your project!

Q&A
Thank you
Minwoo Park
tebica@gmail.com
Sungju Jin
sungju@softwaregeeks.org

Special thanks to..
Personal : 권선숙, 진종준, 김부희
REVIEWER : Tim Anglade(Apigee), 권정혁(Lezhin Comics), 손영수
(NHN NEXT)
NIPA : 박진홍, 박수경, 공개/지역SW팀
Python Korea : 배권한, 김종호
InMobi : 김승연, 강은진
EVA : 김현종, 김지원, 고상원, 백승용, 박선욱, 김민정, 유성우, 우상정, 황학범,
이정민, 백동환, 윤주환, 호남원, 임세원, 황희선, 황선희, 이용희, 송지현, 강미
경, 오유환, 이재근, 오혜성, 오진수
모모 : 변현규, 안병현, 임선용, 김진영, 문성훈
KT : 이현규상무님, 김광섭상무님, 김태호, 곽상용, 권오상, 김상열, 김영찬, 안
지현, 이정표, 전규찬, 홍성훈, 최명진, 조소영, askagirl
강승준, 유우영, 장선진, 이동훈, 신재명, 김영호, Gihan, Honglu, Eveline
Sun, 서동준, 강대규, 김새샘, 김나래, 최종열, 김선호, 강대명
Japan community members : Hiro Yoshioka, Naoko Takano, Tetsuko
Komma, Tao Sasaki, Akira Tsumura, Tadashi Nagao, Shinji Enoki, Takeshi
Yabe

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