An overview of open source in east asia

An Overview of
Open Source
in East Asia
Minwoo Park ( Inmobi )
Sungju Jin ( Korea Telecom )

Speakers

Minwoo Park( @tebica )
http://earlybird.kr/

Sungju Jin( @geekbeast )
http://softwaregeeks.org

I work for Inmobi Korea
as a Solution Engineer

I work for Korea Telecom and
building mobile backend
service called 'baas.io'

Previously
* KTH
* Samsung Electronics

Previously
* KTH

Speaker
Python Korea

Run dev Conferences

Minwoo Park( @tebica )
http://earlybird.kr/

Hackathon

Contents

1. Community
2. Why Asia?
3. China
4. Japan
5. Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed with Asia

1. Community

Open Source software
- Community

= Nothing

1. Community

What are we missing?

1. Community

Double the Community

1. Community

Double the Community

Double the Success!

Asia just met
OSS

Asia

Open Source

1. Community

US Open Source Community
- 10 years
= Asia Open Source Community

3.China
http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/morton1905/8710295640

Contents

1. Community

1)Market

2. Why Asia?

2)Population

3.China
4. Japan
5. Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia

3)Closed
4)Open Source
5)Community

3.1 China > Market

Source : http://blog.ﬂurry.com/bid/83261/China-Now-Leads-the-World-in-New-iOS-and-Android-Device-Activations

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

3.1 China > Market

QQ messaging platform
784,000,000 Active accounts

= population X 2

3.1 China > Market

Weibo
32,312

>

msg / sec

Twitter
25,088
msg / sec
-Twitter’s record

2012 Chinese new year...

3.2 China > Population

China is currently the most
populous country on Earth
China

India

US
0

375,000,000

750,000,000

1,125,000,000

Source : http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/china-in-numbers_50290a68bac7b.gif

1,500,000,000


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


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


Number of IT
professionals 1,200,000
+ Graduate 100,000

programmers each year

Sources:http://images.onlineuniversityrankings.com.s3.amazonaws.com/america-meet-china.jpg
http://www.slideshare.net/jaaronfarr/open-source-in-china-updated

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

3.3 China > Closed

The Map of Cyber
censorship

source : Reporters Without Borders
http://march12.rsf.org/en/#ccenemies

Enemies of Internet
Countries under surveillance

3.3 China > Closed

Getting a homepage in China

ICP license

(Internet Content Provider)

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license

3.4 China > Open Source

Barriers of Open source in China

Piracy
• Language
• Closed internet
•


Piracy hurts Open Source
Country

Piracy Rate

US

19%

China

77%

Japan
Korea

21%
40%

Free MS Widows / MS Oﬃce in China?
Source : BSA (Business Software Alliance) 2011 Piracy Study
http://globalstudy.bsa.org/2011/downloads/study_pdf/2011_BSA_Piracy_Study-InBrief.pdf


Languages in China
Lots of
spoken
languages


open source project

in a closed internet?


Top 3 countries
Country

Percentage of Visitors

India

17.1%

US

16.2%

China

14.8%

Source : http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/github.com


has lots of open source projects
has great Engineering blog

Alibaba Group started
to embrace open source


Code Alibaba ( > 100 open-source projects)
http://code.alibabatech.com


TaoCode ( > 373 open-source projects)
http://code.taobao.org

3.5 China > Community

Linux communities in China

http://www.redﬂag-linux.com/community.html

3.5 China > Community

• http://oss.org.cn/
• http://oschina.net
• http://www.openfans.org/
• http://www.csdn.net/
• http://www.lupaworld.com/
• http://python.cn/
• http://ruby-china.org/

Speakers
Sungju Jin ( @geekbeast )
http://softwaregeeks.org
I work for Korea Telecom
and building mobile
backend service called
'baas.io'
Previously
* KTH
Programming Android;
Easy development of
Android (2011)

4.Japan

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/lisa_joy/6328028147/

Contents

1. Community

1)Rich

2. Why Asia?

2)Ruby Creator

3. China

4.Japan
5. Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia

3)Open Source
4)Community

Contents

1. Community
2. Why Asia?
3. China

1)Rich
2)Ruby Creator

4.Japan

3)Open Source

5. Korea

4)Community

6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia

3.2. Japan > Rich!

List of countries by GDP per capita
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

Source : List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita

$ 6,076

3.2. Japan > Rich!

Global Software Market Size
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
Source : Abes (2009)

872.8

100

3.2. Japan > `Ruby` Creator

Ruby is a language of careful balance.
Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto.


“Matz” started developing Ruby in 1993.02.24
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

Version
0.95
1.0
1.1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
1.9
1.9.2
1.9.3
2.0

Source : Ruby 2.0(en)
https://speakerdeck.com/yukihiro_matz/ruby-2-dot-0-en

Date
1995.12.21
1996.12
1997.08
1998.12
1999.08
2000.09
2003.08
2007.12
2010.08
2011.10
2013.02.24


11

10

Ruby

1.479%

Source : http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html


Google Trends
“Ruby”

Google Trend
http://www.google.co.kr/trends/explore#cat=0-174-231&q=ruby&cmpt=q


http://www.ruby.or.jp


http://www.rubyworld-conf.org/en/


Rubyist Magazine by Ruby Japan Inc
http://magazine.rubyist.net

• Many

japanese have pride ruby and they
make ruby curriculum for school students

•

Shinjuku.rb ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/shinjuku.rb/ )

•

Yokohama.rb( http://bukt.org/groups/3 )

•

Okinawa.rb( http://qwik.jp/okinawarb/ )

•

Hiroshima.rb( http://hiroshimarb.github.io/ )

•

Shibuya.rb( https://www.facebook.com/groups/shibuya.rb/ )

•

Rails Girls Tokyo( https://www.facebook.com/groups/113145785502645/ )

•

Ruby Sapporo( http://ruby-sapporo.org )

•

Tokyo Rails Study Group( https://www.facebook.com/groups/133320066732707/ )

•

nshg.rb( https://www.facebook.com/nshgrb )

3.2. Japan > Open Source Software
• "sinsai.info"
• 600

: Disaster response web project

information volunteers from 20 countries
• 100 developer from 3 countries

3.2. Japan > Open Source Software

twitter4j ( http://twitter4j.org/en )

Contents

1. Community

1)Rich

2. Why Asia?

2)Ruby Creator

3. China

4.Japan

3)Open Source

5. Korea

4)Community

6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia

3.2. Japan > Community
• Japan

has already major global community
branch or agency

• There

is many developer community in
Japan ( over 70 )


$10 / day
10:00 ~ 20:00
Open source books
Free opencola(coke)

https://speakerdeck.com/cognitom/kowakingutoopunsosu

5.Korea
http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/koreanet/7628129114/

Korea

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/koreanet/8022780499

Contents

1. Community

1)Fast

2. Why Asia?
3. China

2)Open Source

4. Japan

3)Community

5.Korea
6. CJK
7. How to succeed
with Asia

5. Korea

Total Population

48,861,000

Mobile subscribers

53,609,000

110%

Use Social Network

26,000,000

53%

Internet users

40,328,660

83%

5.1 Korea > Fast

South Korea's GDP (PPP) growth from 1911 to 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_the_Han_River

5.1 Korea > Fast

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/34517346@N02/3395518862

5.1 Korea > Fast

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/51035715376@N01/375420583

5.1 Korea > Fast

빨리빨리
Hurry up, Hurry up

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


Linux Foundation and is
governed by a Technical
Steering Group

Mozilla, Samsung Collaborate on
Next Generation Web Browser Engine

https://www.tizen.org/
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on-next-generationweb-browser-engine/


`Naver` is biggest search site in Korea

http://dev.naver.com/opensource/


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


Netty( http://netty.io/ )


http://www.cubrid.org/


Hama ( http://hama.apache.org/ )


Tajo ( http://tajo.incubator.apache.org/ )


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


Wand( http://wand-py.org )


OSSI http://opensat.cc/

(Open Source Satellite Initiative)

5.3 Korea > Community

KLDP(Korea Linux Documentation Project)
http://kldp.org/


Mozilla Korea Community
http://www.mozilla.or.kr


Korea Community Association
http://kcd.onoﬀmix.com


JCO(Java Community Organization) is
biggest Java Community in Asia
over 100,000
Java Developers Conference (since 2000)


Most communities located in Seoul

6.3 CJK > Government
•

OSS Promotion Forum
•

OSS Working Group(China, Japan, Korea)
•
•

WG2 - Education developer

•

WG3 - International Standardization

•

•

WG1 - Developing Technology

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)

6.3 CJK > Government, China

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

Source : Development Status of China OSS

•

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

Ubuntu To Become
The Oﬃcial OS Of China
Source http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/ubuntu-to-become-the-oﬃcial-os-of-china

6.3 CJK > Government, Japan
•

IPA(Information-technology
Promotion Agency, Japan)
•

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

Source : Japan's Open Source Software Policy and Implementation

6.3 CJK > Government, Japan

OSC (Open source conference)
held 17 times in 2012

6.3 CJK > Government, Korea

NIPA

•

(National IT Industry
Promotion Agency)
•

Develop/Community

OSS Ordering Agency
•
•

•

Reducing SW deployment cost
Overcoming dependency on
certain corporate

OSS Using Companies

•

•

Spreading utilize of OSS

•
•

Ensuring technology in new
business areas
Participating in global community

•

Improving SW competitiveness

OSS Specialized Companies
•

Pioneering new business market

•

Educating advanced talents

Source : OSS Policy Direction of KOREA


Korea Government supports
OSS Conference trip
as a open source community support program

Open Source Portal( http://www.oss.kr )


Open Source Software World Challenge 2013
(http://ossaward.org/)
Grand Prize : $80,000


Language barrier
開放原始碼
오픈소스
オープンソース


Be open minded

OPEN


Internationalization
(i18n)


If you want to
collaborate with
Asian developers ...


Focus your project!


Embrace
Asian developers
Don’t be mad at
their poor English


If you want to
spread to
Asian market...


Be open-minded
about culture


Find good
communities


j.mp/asian-communities


If you’re a developer

If you’re an evangelist


Focus your project!



Focus your project!
Check Unicode / i18n support



Focus your project!

Be open-minded about culture


Focus your project!

Be open-minded about culture
Talk to Asian communities

Q&A

Thank you
Minwoo Park

tebica@gmail.com

Sungju Jin

sungju@softwaregeeks.org

Special thanks to..
Personal : 권선숙, 진종준, 김부희
REVIEWER : Tim Anglade(Apigee), 권정혁(Lezhin Comics), 손영수
(NHN NEXT)
NIPA : 박진홍, 박수경, 공개/지역SW팀
Python Korea : 배권한, 김종호
InMobi : 김승연, 강은진
EVA : 김현종, 김지원, 고상원, 백승용, 박선욱, 김민정, 유성우, 우상정, 황학범,
이정민, 백동환, 윤주환, 호남원, 임세원, 황희선, 황선희, 이용희, 송지현, 강미
경, 오유환, 이재근, 오혜성, 오진수
모모 : 변현규, 안병현, 임선용, 김진영, 문성훈
KT : 이현규상무님, 김광섭상무님, 김태호, 곽상용, 권오상, 김상열, 김영찬, 안
지현, 이정표, 전규찬, 홍성훈, 최명진, 조소영, askagirl
강승준, 유우영, 장선진, 이동훈, 신재명, 김영호, Gihan, Honglu, Eveline
Sun, 서동준, 강대규, 김새샘, 김나래, 최종열, 김선호, 강대명
Japan community members : Hiro Yoshioka, Naoko Takano, Tetsuko
Komma, Tao Sasaki, Akira Tsumura, Tadashi Nagao, Shinji Enoki, Takeshi
Yabe

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