This is a BoF session to talk about the way to take over the exiting experience to the next generation. Many of you will come to the age which you start considering the way to continue what you are doing. Especially if it is your mission of your belonging organization such as company, university or community, it will become serious problem. In this session we would like to exchange our thoughts on this issue. At the same time, a newly created Operating System for education will be introduced. This BOF occurred at LinuxCon Japan under the direction of Satoru Ueda

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Taking over to the next generation
LinuxCon Japan 2016
Tokyo
Satoru Ueda

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Retirement Age Regulation
60
It may be illegal in the United States, however…

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Don’t ask me!
Who is your successor?

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Question
I am wondering:
Are my experiences worth taking over to the next generation?
Someone may be wondering:
Is my role in open community should be taken over to someone?

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A Nightmare in Near Future?
The trouble seems caused by
something from inside of this
huge black box.
However…

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1991

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25 years later
?
We have been enjoying Linux
development!

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Reincarnation?

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Question 1: Worth taking over?
Is it worth taking
over to the next
generation?
Yes, it is.
No, it isn’t.
Who can judge it?
Extinction of the knowledge
Evolution of the knowledge

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Question 2: Challenge to make it “Explicit Knowledge”
Method of “Explicit
Knowledge”.
Convert to
Explicit Knowledge
Patrimony through
Story Telling?
Ordinal way!
Operation Manual
Documentation
Guideline

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Tacit knowledge and Explicit knowledge
Tacit knowledge
Explicit knowledge
Easiness of the conversion
EasyNot Easy
Before you retire, you must convert your tacit knowledge to explicit one!
(Ordinal managers)

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Tacit knowledge and Explicit knowledge
Tacit knowledge
Explicit knowledge
Easiness of the conversion
Easy
Creating operation
manuals
Preparing processes
Writing books, blogs
OSS License Compliance
Each companies’ internal rules
and guidelines
Challenge transferring to explicit
knowledge!

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Tacit knowledge and Explicit knowledge
Tacit knowledge
Explicit knowledge
Easiness of the conversion
Not Easy
Can not help the way of
Embryogenesis Steps?
Story telling
Encouraging
Community beginners’ guideline
(Kernel Newbies)
Community experiences
Creating mutual respect and
trust with the community
Give up transferring to explicit knowledge?

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Question 3: “Embryogenesis Steps”
Should the next
generation people
follow the same path?
Yes, it is.
No, it isn’t.
Example:
“A story of specification”
Let them experience again
Evolution of the knowledge
Other methods to take over
to the next generation?

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A story of Specification
•2003~04: CE Linux Forum created an Embedded Linux
Standard Specifications
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:05:36PM -0700,
> I am writing to announce the availability of the first draft of
> the CE Linux Forum‘s first specification. This specification
> represents the efforts of six different technical working groups
> over about the last 9 months.
If you want my 2 Cent:
- stop these rather useless specifications and provide patchkits instead
- try to actually submit the patches upstream to get a feeling which
of your 'features' are compltely hopeless, which are okay and which
can better be solved in different ways.
May be without any real experience, it is so hard to learn.

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Let them Follow Embryogenesis Steps?
Should we let the next generation people to
follow our past steps of evolution? Just
resembling to the case of embryogenesis
process.
I think it not always to be realistic.

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Isn’t it too huge to deal with?
•Should I read through this huge resources?
•Should I follow the trail of nearly 25 years of Linux history?

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YATOS – Yet Another Teachable Operating System
•A proposal by Takeharu Kato
• https://github.com/takeharukato/yatos

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YATOS – Yet Another Teachable Operating System
•Would it be attractive for young people?
• How to make it attractive?

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Traditional performing arts , also inherit “skills to inherit”
Is it required developing the way to take over the technologies
to the next generation?
伝統芸能は、継承の技能も継承している

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I would like to be optimistic!
At least, the next generation
people also enjoy the Open
Community Way…
Most of the concerns
would be wiped away.

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Thank you very much for joining!