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Empowering Asian Contributions: The Rise of Regional User Groups in Open Source Communities
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- 1. Empowering Asian Contributions: TheRise of Regional User Groups in Open Source Communities Naomichi Shima & Norio Kobota, Sony Group Corporation
- 2. About the speaker NorioKobota is a senior Open Source strategist at Sony Group Corporation. He is working to improve compliance with Open Source licenses and strengthen relationships with Open Source communities as an OSPO member. Additionally, he represents Sony as a board member of the OpenChain project and chairs its SBOM Study Group. He also participates in the SPDX Working Group and contributes to SPDX Lite. Naomichi Shima is OSPO and Alliance Manager in Sony Group Corporation. He chairs the Sony Group Corporation‘s Open Source Promotion Committee and works to promote open source compliance within the company. He leads the FAQ subgroup of the OpenChain Japan Work Group. He is an English-Japanese translation volunteer regarding OSS community related document, such as Linux Foundation Research and TODO Group.
- 3. Flourish or Strive? Isyour open source community flourishing, or is your contributor base experiencing difficulties in growth? contributors
- 4. Underrepresentation of Asiancontributions India US China Japan Korea https://www.athuman.com/news/2025/22 020/ Units: ten thousands Top 10 countries/regions with IT engineers https://github.blog/news-insigh ts/octoverse/octoverse-2024/ Germany Brazil
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- 6. Case study: OpenChainProject Japan WG since 2017 02/2018 08/2018 02/2019 08/2019 02/2020 08/2020 02/2021 08/2021 02/2022 08/2022 02/2023 08/2023 02/2024 08/2024 02/2025 0 50 100 150 200 250 14 22 75 90 108 129 142 180 200 221 231 8 13 37 40 59 61 70 80 92 100 105 Trends in the number of subscribers to OpenChain Japan WG's Mail List Person Entity 33 All Member Meetings 8 Sub-workgroups 230+ person 100+ ｅｎｔｉｔｉ ｅｓ ML subscribers https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/OpenChain-JWG https://openchain-project.github.io/OpenChain-JWG/
- 7. Deliverables from theOpenChain Japan WG JA https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v3.0.1/model/Lite/Lite/ https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/OpenChain-J WG/tree/master/Education_Material/FAQ https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/tree/master/ OpenChain-Supplier-Education/en/Legacy/Supplier-Education-Leaflet- OpenChain-2.1-(Pre-ISO-IEC-5230) https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/tree/master/ OpenChain-Supplier-Education/en/Supplier-Education-Leaflet-ISO-IEC -5230-(OpenChain%202.1)
- 8. Ripple effects onregional communities Following the launch of the Japan Work Group of OpenChain, regional work groups were launched in other regions as well. OpenChain Project Launched (*) (Oct. 2016) 2015~2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Japan WG Launched (Dec. 2017) Korea WG Launched (Jan. 2019) India WG Launched (Sep. 2019) China WG Launched (Sep. 2019) UK WG Launched (Jun. 2020) Taiwan WG Launched (Sep. 2020) * The original “OpenChain WG” was announced in Oct. 2015. Germany WG Launched (Jan. 2020)
- 9. A look atOpenChain certified companies ● More than 130 companies have publicly announced certification to OpenChain ISO IEC 5230, which was standardized in 2020. ● Asian companies make up 46% of certification announcements. ● Many companies in countries/regions with regional work groups are certified. (Dotted line in the graph) China 14% Korea 13% Japan 9% India 5% Taiwan 3% Kazakhstan 1% Myanmar 1% Hong Kong 1% Germany 12% UK 5% Sweden 3% Italy 2% Ireland 2% Spain 2% Iceland 1% Austria 1% Netherlands 1% Finland 1% Poland 1% Russia 1% US 17% Canada 2% Australia 3% Chile 1% Brazil 1% Colombia 1% Asia 46% Europe 30% North America 19% Ocenania 3% South America 2% Percentage of companies that have obtained ISO IEC 5230 certification by country/region https://openchainproject.org/community-of-conformance
- 10. Strategic collaboration withother communities The Japan WG of OpenChain and TODO Group jointly hold “OSPO local meetups”. The OpenChain Japan Work Group, TODO Group, and Cloud Native Computing Japan (CNCJ) have jointly held this meetup. https://community.linuxfoundation.org/ospo-local-meetup-japan-japanese-speaking/ https://community.linuxfoundation.org/events/details/lfhq-ospo-local-meetup-japan -japanese-speaking-presents-ospo-japan-jue-qi-ji-hui-new-years-rally-2025/ 50+ “OSPO local meetups” “OSPO Japan Rally (New Year's Rally) 2025!!”
- 11. Off topic activities OnsenStudy Group Craft Beer Club (unofficial)
- 12. Linguistic Distance: AQuantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages Barry R. Chiswick Paul W. Miller Language Barrier - Higher Than You Might Think Diversity in Open Source, an Asian Perspective - Masae Shida https://sched.co/1OGgS https://sched.co/1nb0O https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/1246/li nguistic-distance-a-quantitative-measure-of -the-distance-between-english-and-other-lan guages Language Language Score Japanese 1.0 (Most Different from English) Table 1 Index of Difficulty of Learning a Foreign Language (Language Scores) and Codes for Languages Reported in the U.S. Census
- 13. Corporate Culture andRule Challenges Regional Variations and Similarities ● Approval Processes ● Budget timing ● Organizational Structure https://www.irasutoya.com/2018/03/blog-post_80.h tml https://www.irasutoya.com/2018/07/blog-post_680. html
- 14. Regional Community -Bound to Divide Easily from Global Community https://pixabay.com/illustrations/world-map-global-sliced-world-77 84081/
- 15. Essential Insights fromOpenChain Japan’s Key Person Overcoming Challenges & Empowering OpenChain Japan WG https://sched.co/TL G2 Initiatives and Challenges at the Launch of OpenChain Japan WG 1. Align community challenges with common business challenges • Gathering members facing similar challenges • Uniting individuals on common business challenges 2. Community Building and Management • Fostering mutual trust among members by facilitating in-person meetings 3. Creating and Disseminating Output • Fostering sustained dialogue with the global community by sharing tangible outcomes.
- 16. KEYs for LAUNCHINGTHE REGIONAL COMMUNITY A MECHANISM TO KEEP THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY IS ESSENTIAL 2. Community Building and Management • Fostering mutual trust among members by facilitating in-person meetings 3. Creating and Disseminating Output • Fostering sustained dialogue with the global community by sharing tangible outcomes. 1. Align community challenges with common business challenges • Gathering members facing similar challenges • Uniting individuals on common business challenges
- 17. Lessons learned fromOpenChain project and TODO Group ● Key Points ○ Participant Observation ■ Genuinely listen to others' opinions and perspectives ■ Recognize unique strengths ■ Understand personal aspirations ○ Role Assignment ■ Match roles to skills and interests ■ Empower members with ownership ○ External representation ■ Designate community ambassadors ■ Actively promote community activities ○ Comprehensive Onboarding Process & Documentation ■ Publish clear Onboarding process ■ Systematize and Publish practical materials