The document details the 12-year history of Redmine in Japan and the establishment of Far End Technologies, founded in 2008 by the author influenced by the Redmine project. It outlines the author's journey from launching a Redmine-focused website to offering hosting services, contributing to open source, and partnering with Planio to enhance Redmine's offerings in Japan. The narrative highlights the impact of Redmine on project management in Japan and expresses gratitude to supporters and contributors.

1. 12 years of Redmine in Japan
and
10 years of Far End Technologies

2. 2006

3. Jean-Philippe Lang released
the first version of Redmine.

5. Some tech companies in Matsue
established an organization
“Open Source Society Shimane”
in connection with
Matsue City’s “Ruby City MATSUE” project

6. Establishment ceremony in Sep. 2006
Me

7. Without these two things,
Far End Technologies was never founded.

8. 2007

9. I met Redmine and launched a website
“Redmine.JP”.
It publishes information regarding to
Redmine in the Japanese language.

10. The server was in my home

11. 2008

12. Founded
Far End Technologies Corporation

13. Do you know
what does “far end” mean?

14. “far end” is the opposite end of
communication wire,
such as optical fiber and metallic cable.
near end far end

15. 10 years ago,
I wanted to create a business
that utilizes the Internet.

16. We are connected to the Internet
via communication wire.
I thought “far end”,
the opposite end of wire,
is the Internet.
the Internet

17. “Far End Technologies”
means
“The Internet Technologies”

18. Published a book “入門Redmine”

19. A concept
“Tickets Driven Development
with Redmine” by @akipii

20. the concept played a great role
in spreading Redmine in Japan.

21. 2009

22. Started paid service of “My Redmine”,
a hosting service of Redmine.
We had less than 5 paid customers
at the end of 2009.

23. More and more enterprises in Japan
started to use Redmine.

24. Search volumes on Google for “Redmine”
exceeded “Trac” in Japan.

25. 2010

26. “Redmineによるタスクマネジメント実践技法”
(Ogawa and Sakai)

27. 2011

28. Far End Technologies moved to
Matsue Center Building (33㎡)

29. 2014

30. “Ruby City MATSUE” ad sign

31. I became a “Contributor”
on redmine.org.

32. Since that, I have been checking patches,
triaging issues, and giving feedbacks.

33. 2016

34. Planio launched the service for Japan with
Far End Technologies.

35. Planio is better Redmine.
Improved UI and features.

36. We are now able to offer another
Redmine-based cloud service to
Japanese customers.

37. 2017

38. ▼ Holger Just
▼ Felix Shäfer
▲ Jean-Philippe Lang
▲ Go Maeda
Jan Schulz-Hofen ▲
▼ Toshi Maruyama
Met JPL in Paris.

39. I became a committer.

40. Maybe I can help to make the
development of Redmine
more active.

41. 2018

42. We grew up
2008 2018

43. Thank you to everyone
involved in
Redmine and Far End Technologies.

44. We work for making the world
better with the power of open
source and the Internet.

45. Thank you.