1. An Introduction to
html5j
Kensaku Komatsu
(kensaku.komatsu@gmail.com)

2. html5j in a nutshell
 Largest HTML5 community in Japan.
 Subscribers : 5894
 Activity has started in 2009
 Three fundamental policy
 Education
 Communication
 Have fun with
 Established non-profit organization named “JOWA” in 2013
 Japan Open Web Association.

3. Mission
“To make Japan’s web
developer as a leading
position in the World!!”

4. Main Activities
 Monthly Meetup
 Annual conference
 Collaboration with W3C
 Activities outside of Tokyo
 Club activities

5. Monthly Meetup event
 Held every month in Tokyo area
 Space is provided free by
subcontractor
 Attendees : 100 – 200
 Reservation becomes full in one
hours.
 Reporting article in major web
media.
 Gihyo.jp, @IT
http://gihyo.jp/news/report/2013/08/0601

6. Annual Conference
 Held twice in the past
 2011
 At Google
 200 participants
 2012
 At Keio University
 1000 participants
 37 sponsors
 Will held end of Novemeber
 At NTT
 2000 participants
 Over 50 sponsors
http://events.html5j.org/conference/2013/11/

7. Collaboration with W3C
 W3C Developers Meetup
 Held at 2013.6.8
 300 participants (W3C members and Japanese
developers)
 Contribution to Test the Web Forward
 Test the web meetup
 Held at 2013.9.14
 Next meetup : 2014 1Q
http://www.w3.org/2013/06/meetup-Tokyo.html
 Contribution to WebPlatform.org
 Will held at 2013.11.1
 Translation (English => Japanese)
 [Planning] Distributing good Japanese article to
International

8. Activities outside of Tokyo
 Japan’s activities are too centralized in Tokyo area.
 To address above, Making activities outside of Tokyo.
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2012.9.15 Nagoya
2013.2.9 Fukuoka
2013.2.10 Miyazaki
2013.4.20 Fukushima
2013.10.27 Tokushima
[Planning] Gifu, Sendai, Sapporo, …
 Main organizer : regional community
 html5j : Supporter position ( providing speakers etc. )

9. HTMLDAY
 At 2013.6.8
 Test the web forward
 W3C developer meetup
 Other 32 events are held
 Will held next year.
http://www.htmlday.jp/

10. Club activities
 Activities in each segment
(e.g. meetup)
 Enterprise
 For beginner
 Markup
 Testing
 Brand new technologies
 Television
 English
 ……
http://blog.html5j.org/2013/06/html5j.html

11. HTML5 Experts.jp
 Web Experts community media
 Over 50 experts.
 Providing high-quality articles
 Event
 HTML5 Experts NITE
 [Planning] Experts 24 hours
Hackathon
http://html5experts.jp/

12. http://www.html5j.org/