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An overview of open source in East Asia (China, Japan, Korea)
1. An Overview of
Open Source
in East Asia
Minwoo Park ( Inmobi )
Sungju Jin ( Korea Telecom )
2. Speakers
Sungju Jin( @geekbeast )
http://softwaregeeks.org
I work for Korea Telecom and
building mobile backend
service called 'baas.io'
Previously
* KTH
* Samsung Electronics
Minwoo Park( @tebica )
http://earlybird.kr/
I work for Inmobi Korea
as a Solution Engineer
Previously
* KTH
* Samsung Electronics
3. Speaker
Minwoo Park( @tebica )
http://earlybird.kr/
Python Korea
Hackathon
Run dev Conferences
Python KoreaPython KoreaPython KoreaPython KoreaPython Korea
18. Contents
1. Community
2. Why Asia?
3.China
4. Japan
5. Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia
1)Market
2)Population
3)Closed
4)Open Source
5)Community
20. 3.1 China > Market
Source : http://blog.flurry.com/bid/83261/China-Now-Leads-the-World-in-New-iOS-and-Android-Device-Activations
21. 3.1 China > Market
QQ messaging platform
784,000,000 Active accounts
Source : http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/23/2726553/sina-weibo-microblogging-record-chinese-new-year
22. 3.1 China > Market
QQ messaging platform
784,000,000 Active accounts
= population X 2
Source : http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/23/2726553/sina-weibo-microblogging-record-chinese-new-year
23. 3.1 China > Market
Weibo
32,312
msg / sec
Twitter
25,088
msg / sec
2012 Chinese new year...
>
-Twitter’s record
Source : http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/23/2726553/sina-weibo-microblogging-record-chinese-new-year
25. 3.2 China > Population
China
India
US
0 375,000,000 750,000,000 1,125,000,000 1,500,000,000
China is currently the most
populous country on Earth
Source : http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/china-in-numbers_50290a68bac7b.gif
26. 3.2 China > Population
Largest Internet Population
591,000,000
+ Adding 1.6 every second
Sources : http://www.techinasia.com/cnniic-china-web-mobile-user-data-for2013/
http://www.slideshare.net/wearesocialsg/we-are-socials-guide-to-social-digital-and-mobile-in-china-2nd-edition-jan-2013
27. 3.2 China > Population
Number of IT
professionals 1,200,000
Sources:http://images.onlineuniversityrankings.com.s3.amazonaws.com/america-meet-china.jpg
http://www.slideshare.net/jaaronfarr/open-source-in-china-updated
28. 3.2 China > Population
Number of IT
professionals 1,200,000
Sources:http://images.onlineuniversityrankings.com.s3.amazonaws.com/america-meet-china.jpg
http://www.slideshare.net/jaaronfarr/open-source-in-china-updated
+ Graduate 100,000
programmers each year
32. 3.3 China > Closed
• Sites that blocked in China
• Twitter
• Facebook
• YouTube
• Google Play, Google Plus,
Google Docs, Picasa...
• Gmail works, but blocked once on Nov 2012
• Github works, but blocked once on Jan 2013
33. The Map of Cyber
censorship
Enemies of Internet
Countries under surveillance
source : Reporters Without Borders
http://march12.rsf.org/en/#ccenemies
3.3 China > Closed
34. ICP license
(Internet Content Provider)
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license
3.3 China > Closed
Getting a homepage in China
36. 3.4 China > Open Source
Barriers of Open source in China
• Piracy
• Language
• Closed internet
37. 3.4 China > Open Source
Country Piracy Rate
US 19%
China 77%
Japan 21%
Korea 40%
Source : BSA (Business Software Alliance) 2011 Piracy Study
http://globalstudy.bsa.org/2011/downloads/study_pdf/2011_BSA_Piracy_Study-InBrief.pdf
Piracy hurts Open Source
Free MS Widows / MS Office in China?
38. 3.4 China > Open Source
Languages in China
Lots of
spoken
languages
39. 3.4 China > Open Source
open source project
in a closed internet?
40. 3.4 China > Open Source
Country Percentage of Visitors
India 17.1%
US 16.2%
China 14.8%
Source : http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/github.com
Top 3 countries
41. 3.4 China > Open Source
has lots of open source projects
has great Engineering blog
Alibaba Group started
to embrace open source
42. 3.4 China > Open Source
Code Alibaba ( > 100 open-source projects)
http://code.alibabatech.com
43. TaoCode ( > 373 open-source projects)
http://code.taobao.org
3.4 China > Open Source
48. Speakers
Sungju Jin ( @geekbeast )
http://softwaregeeks.org
I work for Korea Telecom
and building mobile
backend service called
'baas.io'
Previously
* KTH
* Samsung Electronics
Programming Android;
Easy development of
Android (2011)
50. Contents
1. Community
2. Why Asia?
3. China
4.Japan
5. Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia
1)Rich
2)Ruby Creator
3)Open Source
4)Community
51. Contents
1. Community
2. Why Asia?
3. China
4.Japan
5. Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia
1)Rich
2)Ruby Creator
3)Open Source
4)Community
52. 3.2. Japan > Rich!
11 USA $ 49,922
12 Austria $ 47,083
13 Japan $ 46,736
14 Nederland $ 46,142
15 Finland $ 46,098
16 Ireland $ 45,888
..................
33 Korea $ 23,113
..................
86 China $ 6,076
Source : List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita
List of countries by GDP per capita
53. 3.2. Japan > Rich!
Country Volume(USD billions) Share(%)
1 USA 339.6 38.9
2 Japan 71.7 8.21
3 United Kingdom 67.1 7.69
4 Germany 62.6 7.17
5 France 49.8 5.71
6 Canada 24.8 2.84
7 Italy 24.1 2.76
........................
Total 872.8 100
Source : Abes (2009)
Global Software Market Size
66. • "sinsai.info" : Disaster response web project
• 600 information volunteers from 20 countries
• 100 developer from 3 countries
3.2. Japan > Open Source Software
87. 5.2 Korea > Open Source
Samsung invests Kernel developments actively
with high interests
Contribution Rank: 23th (2010) - Top 10 (2012)
Top 10 Companies
Redhat
Intel
Novell
IBM
TI
Broadcom
Nokia
Samsung
Oracle
Google
Source : Samsung - The Linux Foundation
88. 5.2 Korea > Open Source
Mozilla, Samsung Collaborate on
Next GenerationWeb Browser Engine
Linux Foundation and is
governed by a Technical
Steering Group
https://www.tizen.org/
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on-next-generation-
web-browser-engine/
89. 5.2 Korea > Open Source
`Naver` is biggest search site in Korea
http://dev.naver.com/opensource/
90. 5.2 Korea > Open Source
Korean developers contribute
various projects
Linux, Apache, OpenOffice, Mozilla, JBoss,
Eclipse, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Python, Debian,
GNOME, KDE, Subversion, GCC, Webkit,
Chromium, EFL, GlassFish, LLVM, GForce,
PyPy, TotoiseSVN, TotoiseCVS, PoEdit
Source : http://wiki.kldp.org/wiki.php/KoreanOpenSourceCommitter
91. 5.2 Korea > Open Source
Netty( http://netty.io/ )
92. 5.2 Korea > Open Source
http://www.cubrid.org/
93. 5.2 Korea > Open Source
Hama ( http://hama.apache.org/ )
94. 5.2 Korea > Open Source
Tajo ( http://tajo.incubator.apache.org/ )
95. 5.2 Korea > Open Source
Tadpole DB Hub
https://github.com/hangum/TadpoleForDBTools/
Tadpole DB Hub is Unified
infrastructure tool, various
environment based interface for
managing Amazon RDS, MySQL,
MariaDB, Oracle, SQLite, MSSQL,
PostgreSQL, CUBRID and MongoDB
databases
96. 5.2 Korea > Open Source
Wand( http://wand-py.org )
97. 5.2 Korea > Open Source
OSSIhttp://opensat.cc/
(Open Source Satellite Initiative)
98. Contents
1. Community
2. Why Asia?
3. China
4. Japan
5.Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia
1)Fast
2)Open Source
3)Community
99. 5.3 Korea > Community
KLDP(Korea Linux Documentation Project)
http://kldp.org/
107. 6.3 CJK > Government
• OSS Promotion Forum
• OSS Working Group(China, Japan, Korea)
• WG1 - Developing Technology
• WG2 - Education developer
• WG3 - International Standardization
• WG4 - Adaptation and Spread OSS
• Departments
• NIPA(National IT Industry Promotion Agency)
• OPU(China Open Source Software Promotion Union)
• IPA(Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan)
108. OPU
(China Open Source
Software Promotion
Union)
• Build China OSS Promotion
Union portal
• Northeast Asia Open Source
Software Promotion Forum
• Open source China open source
World Summit and Roundtable
Meeting
• China open source software
competition (Loongson)
• China Linux Kernel Summit
• Asia-Pacific cloud technology
summit
• Asia-Pacific Open Source Big
Data Forum
• Open source in Universities and
SFD China
• Open source cloud computing
and intelligent city
6.3 CJK > Government, China
Source : Development Status of China OSS
109. 6.3 CJK > Government, China
Ubuntu To Become
The Official OS Of China
Source http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/ubuntu-to-become-the-official-os-of-china
110. • IPA(Information-technology
Promotion Agency, Japan)
6.3 CJK > Government, Japan
Source : Japan's Open Source Software Policy and Implementation
• OSSAJ(Open Source Software
Association of Japan)
• http://www.ossaj.org/
• In order to spread OSS,
NPO(Non-Profit Organization)
• OSPN(Open Source People
Network)
• http://www.ospn.jp
111. 6.3 CJK > Government, Japan
OSC (Open source conference)
held 17 times in 2012
112. NIPA
(National IT Industry
Promotion Agency)
• Develop/Community
• Ensuring technology in new
business areas
• Participating in global community
• OSS Specialized Companies
• Pioneering new business market
• Educating advanced talents
• OSS Ordering Agency
• Reducing SW deployment cost
• Overcoming dependency on
certain corporate
• OSS Using Companies
• Spreading utilize of OSS
• Improving SW competitiveness
6.3 CJK > Government, Korea
Source : OSS Policy Direction of KOREA
113. Korea Government supports
OSS Conference trip
as a open source community support program
6.3 CJK > Government, Korea
128. 7. How to succeed with Asia
j.mp/asian-communities
129. 7. How to succeed with Asia
If you’re a developer
If you’re an evangelist
130. 7. How to succeed with Asia
If you’re a developer
If you’re an evangelist
Focus your project!
131. 7. How to succeed with Asia
Check Unicode / i18n support
If you’re a developer
If you’re an evangelist
Focus your project!
132. 7. How to succeed with Asia
Check Unicode / i18n support
If you’re a developer
If you’re an evangelist
Be open-minded about culture
Focus your project!
133. 7. How to succeed with Asia
Check Unicode / i18n support
If you’re a developer
If you’re an evangelist
Be open-minded about culture
Talk to Asian communities
Focus your project!