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Why don't you start local community

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Kodai Terashima
Kodai Terashima

The document discusses the history and growth of the Zabbix community in Japan. It describes how the speaker discovered Zabbix in 2005 and started an unofficial Japanese community site to share information about Zabbix locally. Over time, as the speaker wrote articles and a book about Zabbix and participated in local open source events, the Japanese Zabbix community grew to over 1000 daily visitors on its site. The speaker encourages starting local Zabbix communities by translating documentation, advertising Zabbix locally through blogs and events, and contacting the global Zabbix community for support.

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Why don’t you start local community? 2011.10.01 Zabbix Conference 2011 @ Riga Kodai Terashima Twitter : @kodai74
Who am I ? • Kodai Terashima • Representative of Japanese Zabbix Community • Developer of Mozaby (Zabbix app for iPhone) • Emproyee of Zabbix SIA since April, 2011
Today’s Talk • History of Zabbix in Japan & Japanese Community • What’s is the important things for Local Community • Let’s start Local Community!
Around 2005... I was... • working for Japanese Company. • searching“Free monitoring software”for a customer. OSS Monitoring Software • Nagios & BigBrother were famous in Japan • Zabbix 1.1 alpha released! • Zabbix information in Japanese was“0”on Google search
First Zabbix commercial user in Japan • I compared Zabbix, Nagios, and BigBrother • I believed Zabbix has a great potential! • I suggested Zabbix, my customer chose Zabbix! • I installed and implemented Zabbix monitoring system into the customer environment v.s. v.s.
Creating Zabbix Community • Create un-official ZABBIX-JP site in August 2005 • Un-official local community site • Translate frontend into Japanese http://www.zabbix.jp
what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2005.08 Start ZABBIX-JP site
what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2006.07 ZABBIX-JP site was introduced on Gigazine
what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2006.12 - 2007.09 I wrote 2 Zabbix articles on ThinkIT site
what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2008.03 - 12 I wrote 9 Zabbix articles on Magazine
what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2010.04 Japanese Zabbix book was published
what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2011.04 I moved to Riga from Japan!
what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2011.04 I moved to Riga from Japan!
OSS event activity in Japan • Our event activity • Join Open Source Conference at Tokyo and Kyoto • Hold Zabbix study meeting every 3 - 6 months • 50 - 100 listeners attend our presentation at every event
Today’s Zabbix in Japan • Zabbix community: • 6 active staff • over 1000 visitors every day on community site! • Zabbix in Japan: • 582,000 result of Google search in Japanese! • De-facto standard OSS monitoring software!
Zabbix event photos in Japan
Zabbix event photos in Japan
Zabbix event photos in Japan
Zabbix event photos in Japan
Zabbix event photos in Japan
Important things for Local Community • Local Language • Talk and introduce Zabbix in local language • Local Friends • Find and meet“Zabbix friends”in local language • Local Communication • Gather and meet at local community events
Where will we go? • ZABBIX-JP community want to join zabbix.org • Do the community work together • Reduce management cost of ZABBIX-JP site • Un-official to Official
zabbix.org • Media Wiki • Documents, how-tos and technical information • Pootle • Translation tool for frontend • Community svn • Repository for 3rd party community software http://www.zabbix.org
start local community • Transaltion • Zabbix has 18 languages for frontend • http://www.zabbix.com/documentation • Advertise Zabbix in Local Language • Blogs, articles in medias, OSS events ... Pootle / Zabbix 2.0 frontend
Why don’t you start local community? • I believe OSS community power! • Please contact us! We can help you start local community • twitter: @zabbix • IRC: freenode #zabbix
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Why don't you start local community

  • 1. Why don’t you start local community? 2011.10.01 Zabbix Conference 2011 @ Riga Kodai Terashima Twitter : @kodai74
  • 2. Who am I ? • Kodai Terashima • Representative of Japanese Zabbix Community • Developer of Mozaby (Zabbix app for iPhone) • Emproyee of Zabbix SIA since April, 2011
  • 3. Today’s Talk • History of Zabbix in Japan & Japanese Community • What’s is the important things for Local Community • Let’s start Local Community!
  • 4. Around 2005... I was... • working for Japanese Company. • searching“Free monitoring software”for a customer. OSS Monitoring Software • Nagios & BigBrother were famous in Japan • Zabbix 1.1 alpha released! • Zabbix information in Japanese was“0”on Google search
  • 5. First Zabbix commercial user in Japan • I compared Zabbix, Nagios, and BigBrother • I believed Zabbix has a great potential! • I suggested Zabbix, my customer chose Zabbix! • I installed and implemented Zabbix monitoring system into the customer environment v.s. v.s.
  • 6. Creating Zabbix Community • Create un-official ZABBIX-JP site in August 2005 • Un-official local community site • Translate frontend into Japanese http://www.zabbix.jp
  • 7. what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2005.08 Start ZABBIX-JP site
  • 8. what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2006.07 ZABBIX-JP site was introduced on Gigazine
  • 9. what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2006.12 - 2007.09 I wrote 2 Zabbix articles on ThinkIT site
  • 10. what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2008.03 - 12 I wrote 9 Zabbix articles on Magazine
  • 11. what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2010.04 Japanese Zabbix book was published
  • 12. what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2011.04 I moved to Riga from Japan!
  • 13. what’s happened? Google Analytics / Visitors 2011.04 I moved to Riga from Japan!
  • 14. OSS event activity in Japan • Our event activity • Join Open Source Conference at Tokyo and Kyoto • Hold Zabbix study meeting every 3 - 6 months • 50 - 100 listeners attend our presentation at every event
  • 15. Today’s Zabbix in Japan • Zabbix community: • 6 active staff • over 1000 visitors every day on community site! • Zabbix in Japan: • 582,000 result of Google search in Japanese! • De-facto standard OSS monitoring software!
  • 21. Important things for Local Community • Local Language • Talk and introduce Zabbix in local language • Local Friends • Find and meet“Zabbix friends”in local language • Local Communication • Gather and meet at local community events
  • 22. Where will we go? • ZABBIX-JP community want to join zabbix.org • Do the community work together • Reduce management cost of ZABBIX-JP site • Un-official to Official
  • 23. zabbix.org • Media Wiki • Documents, how-tos and technical information • Pootle • Translation tool for frontend • Community svn • Repository for 3rd party community software http://www.zabbix.org
  • 24. start local community • Transaltion • Zabbix has 18 languages for frontend • http://www.zabbix.com/documentation • Advertise Zabbix in Local Language • Blogs, articles in medias, OSS events ... Pootle / Zabbix 2.0 frontend
  • 25. Why don’t you start local community? • I believe OSS community power! • Please contact us! We can help you start local community • twitter: @zabbix • IRC: freenode #zabbix