WordCamp Europe 2013 in Leiden, the Netherlands http://en.naoko.cc/2013/10/07/learnings-from-growing-local-wordpress-communities/ http://ja.naoko.cc/2013/10/14/wordcamp-europe-2013-report/ Cover photo credit: BilabialBoxing (http://www.flickr.com/photos/74815194@N00/2578068674/)

1. Learnings from
Growing Local
WordPress
Communities
Naoko Takano ・ WordCamp Europe 2013 #WCEU
in Japan

2. Happiness Engineer at Automattic
WordPress.org Japanese Team
Naoko Takano
@naokomc

3. http://ja.wordpress.org/

4. Usage
in

5. 1.5 millioninstalls in Japanese (.org)

6. = 3.53%

7. #2language
after English

8. WordPress Joomla! Drupal Discuz
http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/most_popular_content_management_systems_by_country
Most Popular CMS by Country

16. Hosting
in

17. Shared Hosting

18. Windows
Azure
AWS /
Amimoto
C4SA
PHP
Ninja
wpX
Managed & Cloud Solutions

19. WordPress in Japan 2008-2013

20. 2003
in

22. May 2003
November 2003
http://detlog.org/ (currently http://ja.naoko.cc/)
Movable Type to WordPress

23. in
2004

26. http://wordpress.org/about/history/

27. in
2005

29. in
2006

30. Published WordPress Books

31. in
2007

32. WordCamp SF 2007

36. Ktai Style Plugin

37. in
2008

38. http://www.flickr.com/photos/odysseygate/3060967659/
WordCamp Tokyo 2008

39. in
2009

40. http://www.flickr.com/photos/odysseygate/3437011552/
WordCamp Tokyo 2009

42. in
2010

44. http://www.flickr.com/photos/59553900@N00/4397837422/
WordCamp Fukuoka 2010

45. in
2011

46. Birth of “Wapuu”

47. http://www.flickr.com/photos/odysseygate/6425232913/ (top right), http://www.flickr.com/photos/styledesignjp/8395981605/ (bottom center)

50. in
2012

51. http://www.wpbeginner.com/events/wordpress-community-summit-2012-recap-and-pictures/
WordPress Community Summit

52. In 4 days,
127 people donated
for 2 air tickets to Tybee Island

54. in
2013

55. #wp10
Osaka・Sapporo・Tokyo・Chiba・Sendai・Sakai・Kagawa
http://en.naoko.cc/2013/06/07/wordpress-10th-anniversary-events-wp10-photos-from-japan/

56. 5 years
7 Cities
13 WordCamps
WordCamps in Japan

57. WordCamp Tokyo, 2008-2013
60 → 1100 attendees
8 → 100 volunteers

58. Why did WordPress
become big in Japan?

59. 1.
Focusing on
Localization
in

60. Consistent Translation
&
Reliable Release

62. Share the
Responsibilities!
Tip
#1

63. @tekapo
(tai)
Japanese Package Team
@takayukister@eastcoder
(tenpura)
@mako0901 @odyssey @naokomc
(Nao)

64. http://http://eastcoder.com/code/wp-multibyte-patch/

66. Forum Volunteers
Codex Contributors
Event Organizers
Scaling by Collaboration

67. 2.
Centralizing
Information
in

68. http://codex.wordpress.org/Contributing_to_WordPress

69. http://wpdocs.sourceforge.jp/WordPress への協力

70. http://wordpress.org/support/

71. http://ja.forums.wordpress.org/

72. http://plan.wordcamp.org/

73. http://japan.wordcamp.org/

74. Set rules and
document
Tip
#2

75. Glossary
Testing guideline
Localized package Instruction
Post-release to-do’s
Event organization how-to’s
Forum rules
What’s good to document?

76. 3.
Helping Others
Get Involved
in

77. “WordBench.org”
Network of local communties
Powered by BuddyPress

78. http://bit.ly/wpjacalendar
WordPress Event Calendar

79. WordBench Osaka

80. WordBench Fukuoka
http://kawazoezoe.com/word-bench-fukuoka3-6-3.html

81. WordBench Kobe
http://wordbench.org/2013/08/19/0818wordbenchkobe_php/

82. WordBench Nagoya
https://www.facebook.com/WordBenchNagoya/photos_stream

83. WordBench Fukui
http://fukui.wordbench.org/archives/211

84. WordBench Kagawa
http://kagawa.wordbench.org/2013/02/28/

85. WordBench Tokyo

86. ...and more!
Meetups at Coworking Spaces
http://basecamp-nagoya.jp/blog/entry-530.html

87. Learn from
other communities
& share ideas
Tip
#3

88. 4.
Really understanding
the local culture
in

89. Communication style
Publishing / tech trend
Corporate culture

90. WordPress Kobe 2013

91. http://ja.wordpress.org/about-wp-ja/wapuu/
I’m under
the GPL!

92. Get out and
“meet” people!
Tip
#4

93. Why did WordPress
become big in Japan?
(again...)

94. Small steps.

95. Small steps.
×
More people.

96. Small steps.
×
More people.
×
Keeping it Going.

97. Believe in the
power of your
community.
Tip
#5

98. WordCamp isn’t over
until you blog about it :)
Tip
#6

99. Naoko Takano
@naokomc
http://en.naoko.cc/
Thank you #WCEU!
Cover photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/74815194@N00/2578068674/