The man who has
contributed to OSS by ...
Hiroyuki HOURIN
Japan UNIX Society
hourin@suplex.gr.jp

Hiroyuki HOURIN
法林浩之
Freelance Engineer
Steering Committee, Japan UNIX Society
Working in the IT community
for more than 20 years.

Japan UNIX Society (jus)
One of the IT community pioneers in Japan
About to 30th anniversary (established in 1983)

jus covers a wide range of activities
to targeting not only UNIX
but the overall IT.

My career

Encounter with jus
I helped at the UNIX Fair
when I was a student. (1989)

I moved to Tokyo due to employment.
At the same time, I joined
the steering committee of jus. (1992)
I managed study meetings and other
activities along with senior members.

Open Source Matsuri (1999-2001)
"Matsuri" means "festival" in Japanese.
The first exhibition that brought together
the open source community in Japan.

I was the a moderator
and manager of stage.
Ignited by this, I took charge of
management and chairman
in many events.

KOF (2002-)
Kansai Open Source +
Kansai Community Gathering
Held in Osaka in every autumn.
(2012/11/9-10)

Lightweight Language Event
(2003-)
Conference for LL programmers.
(Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, etc...)
Acted as the leader of the Executive Committee.

jus Study Group JAPAN TOUR
(2007-)
Research presentations are held
at various places in Japan.

TechLION (2011-)
A public talk show for IT engineers,
held in a live house.

I have served as the
moderator for more than
700 speakers so far.

Reason of the award
(from my introduction)
Mr. Hiroyuki Hourin is very famous
coordinator and moderator on
promotion of Unix/Linux in so many
symposiums.
Success of the Lightweight Language
Conference events that counts 10 years
is one of archivement that owes to his
coordination and activities.

The activity status of
IT community in Japan

IT study meeting calendar
Nov. 10
27 events
List of study meetings in Japan
through Google Calendar

Many IT communities
are working in Japan.
And many study meetings
are held every day.

The management style
is various.
scale, open/closed, charge/no charge,
relation with business, etc...
Common feature:
"do independently"
planning, hall reservation,
publicity, management, etc...

Background
High-speed Internet
Portable devices
Social media
Japanese are still hard-workers (?)

More important things:
"Open Source Mind"
About 15 years have passed
since the concept of open source
got across to Japan.
The idea was input and spread
to IT engineers.
- anyone can participate in the development
- information disclosure is good

Personal
thought

We can contribute to
OSS without writing
source code.

Contributions other than
development are also important.
I want you to practice the kind of
contribution you can do.
But, please do not forget
respect for our engineers.
Because, if there were no developers,
OSS would not progress.

Let your activities
be known by others

It is important that they are
YOUR own activities.
Your worth would not
increase by only retweeting
or sharing information.

Spreading information
actively
Although I had worked for more than
20 years, I was awarded at last this year.
Last year, I had the opportunity to let
more people know about my activities
by spreading related information.
I think it was good in order to be prised.

Just keep on moving
Especially in the fields
that most people
find difficult

What OSS developers
are poor at
Coordination, Negotiation,
Decision-making, Management of
community and events,
and long-term actions

Consider the advancement of the
project before your own role,
and take the required action.
And continue for a long time.
(about 20 years maybe :-) )
Probably in this regard,
I have used much more time
than anybody.

The man who has
contributed to OSS ...
... by lip service ? :-)

The man who has
contributed to OSS ...
... by ACTIONS !! (^_^)v

But, if no one would participate,
I could not have continued.

Events and community gatherings
can take place thanks to the people
who gather there.
I would like to thank all the people
involved in my activities.

I got the award.
But my work
is not over.

To be continued ...
09/22 jus study meeting (Okinawa)
09/29 Free lance engineer festival (Tokyo)
10/04 TechLION vol.9 (Kobe)
10/05 jus study meeting (Kobe)
10/06 Kobe IT Festival
11/09 Kansai Open Source
+ Kansai Community Gathering (Osaka)
11/10 jus study meeting (Osaka)
11/12-13 North East OSS Promotion Forum
(Okinawa)
11/16 TechLION vol.10 (Tokyo)
11/19-22 Internet Week 2012 (Tokyo)
12/08 jus study meeting (Fukuoka)
01/18 Engineer Support CROSS 2013 (Tokyo)

Please check my activities
through various social media.
Search keyword: "Hiroyuki HOURIN"

Thank You !!
I will continue to contribute to OSS
by "ACTION" !!