Regional Events
The Linux Foundation holds three Linux Japan Symposiums per year, an event that was started to bring leading Linux luminaries to present and interact with local senior software developers, with the goal of increasing open source participation by talented Japanese developers. The result of these events is the widening of a global Linux community, which benefits everyone.
As Jonathan Corbet has said, “The key to building a community and keeping it together is good communication. By bringing in community developers, the Japan Symposium certainly succeeds in raising the level of communication with the Japanese community. There is no better way to learn about how a community works than to talk with those who are in the middle of it. This series of events might just be part of why contributions from Japan appear to be on the rise. A less obvious but equally important point is this: communication goes both ways. Any speaker who attends this event can only go away smarter, having learned something about how the wider world sees free software. That, too, can only be a good thing.”
We agree, and in addition to the Japan Symposium we held our first China Symposium in Beijing this February.
Upcoming Regional Events
Linux Foundation Japan Symposium - Tokyo
http://jp.linuxfoundation.org/?q=node/18
November 19, 2008