Learnings from
Growing Local
WordPress
Communities
Naoko Takano ・ WordCamp Europe 2013 #WCEU
in Japan
Happiness Engineer at Automattic
WordPress.org Japanese Team
Naoko Takano
@naokomc
http://ja.wordpress.org/
Usage
in
1.5 millioninstalls in Japanese (.org)
= 3.53%
#2language
after English
WordPress Joomla! Drupal Discuz
http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/most_popular_content_management_systems_by_country
Most Popular CMS by Country
Hosting
in
Shared Hosting
Windows
Azure
AWS /
Amimoto
C4SA
PHP
Ninja
wpX
Managed & Cloud Solutions
WordPress in Japan 2008-2013
2003
in
May 2003
November 2003
http://detlog.org/ (currently http://ja.naoko.cc/)
Movable Type to WordPress
in
2004
http://wordpress.org/about/history/
in
2005
in
2006
Published WordPress Books
in
2007
WordCamp SF 2007
Ktai Style Plugin
in
2008
http://www.flickr.com/photos/odysseygate/3060967659/
WordCamp Tokyo 2008
in
2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/odysseygate/3437011552/
WordCamp Tokyo 2009
in
2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59553900@N00/4397837422/
WordCamp Fukuoka 2010
in
2011
Birth of “Wapuu”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/odysseygate/6425232913/ (top right), http://www.flickr.com/photos/styledesignjp/8395981605/ (bottom center)
in
2012
http://www.wpbeginner.com/events/wordpress-community-summit-2012-recap-and-pictures/
WordPress Community Summit
In 4 days,
127 people donated
for 2 air tickets to Tybee Island
in
2013
#wp10
Osaka・Sapporo・Tokyo・Chiba・Sendai・Sakai・Kagawa
http://en.naoko.cc/2013/06/07/wordpress-10th-anniversary-events-wp10-photos-from-japan/
5 years
7 Cities
13 WordCamps
WordCamps in Japan
WordCamp Tokyo, 2008-2013
60 → 1100 attendees
8 → 100 volunteers
Why did WordPress
become big in Japan?
1.
Focusing on
Localization
in
Consistent Translation
&
Reliable Release
Share the
Responsibilities!
Tip
#1
@tekapo
(tai)
Japanese Package Team
@takayukister@eastcoder
(tenpura)
@mako0901 @odyssey @naokomc
(Nao)
http://http://eastcoder.com/code/wp-multibyte-patch/
Forum Volunteers
Codex Contributors
Event Organizers
Scaling by Collaboration
2.
Centralizing
Information
in
http://codex.wordpress.org/Contributing_to_WordPress
http://wpdocs.sourceforge.jp/WordPress への協力
http://wordpress.org/support/
http://ja.forums.wordpress.org/
http://plan.wordcamp.org/
http://japan.wordcamp.org/
Set rules and
document
Tip
#2
Glossary
Testing guideline
Localized package Instruction
Post-release to-do’s
Event organization how-to’s
Forum rules
What’s good to document?
3.
Helping Others
Get Involved
in
“WordBench.org”
Network of local communties
Powered by BuddyPress
http://bit.ly/wpjacalendar
WordPress Event Calendar
WordBench Osaka
WordBench Fukuoka
http://kawazoezoe.com/word-bench-fukuoka3-6-3.html
WordBench Kobe
http://wordbench.org/2013/08/19/0818wordbenchkobe_php/
WordBench Nagoya
https://www.facebook.com/WordBenchNagoya/photos_stream
WordBench Fukui
http://fukui.wordbench.org/archives/211
WordBench Kagawa
http://kagawa.wordbench.org/2013/02/28/
WordBench Tokyo
...and more!
Meetups at Coworking Spaces
http://basecamp-nagoya.jp/blog/entry-530.html
Learn from
other communities
& share ideas
Tip
#3
4.
Really understanding
the local culture
in
Communication style
Publishing / tech trend
Corporate culture
WordPress Kobe 2013
http://ja.wordpress.org/about-wp-ja/wapuu/
I’m under
the GPL!
Get out and
“meet” people!
Tip
#4
Why did WordPress
become big in Japan?
(again...)
Small steps.
Small steps.
×
More people.
Small steps.
×
More people.
×
Keeping it Going.
Believe in the
power of your
community.
Tip
#5
WordCamp isn’t over
until you blog about it :)
Tip
#6
Naoko Takano
@naokomc
http://en.naoko.cc/
Thank you #WCEU!
Cover photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/74815194@N00/2578068674/

Learnings from Growing Local WordPress Communities