 Yeah, it was really nice. I lost my job in 2008. And then my wife was pregnant. And I went to bookstore, and I found a home press book, and I learned myself. And while googling, I found there are people who come together and learn things, joined, and I began like organizing stuff, and I did that. And then there was 70 volunteers, and they are still friends. It's really nice to have this good thing. I work with them, and I talk with them after partying with them. So the concept of the World Camp there was like more... Everyone showed up, and it's not just like someone would be in the front and talking to the audience, but it was like... The community can have their food, and everyone can come there. It's like not to one to end, but it's an end to end. People can talk to each other, people go to their food and stuff, so they look like this. And in 2013, I moved to Angok, Ekamai. And I noticed that I want best friends here too. And I looked for a community, and I noticed that there was none. So I decided to have... First I decided to have 3D meetups, like English, Japanese, and Thai. And only Thai survived. Yeah, but it's an important space, and I can see some pieces here, which are on here, this meetup. And you're here. And the organizers are here too. So it was really great. So I won one meetup a month, and I just continued that. This was the most successful one. I chose this picture. But we had a meetup with only 10 people. We just come together and talk. This was when I was working at the same important space. And two years ago, I moved back to Japan. So again, I live on an island with 100 people, and 50 cats, and 1 horse, and 8 insects. And it's called Okijima. So it's a very small island. And there I have a WordPress meetup. And this is how it looks like. So this is my wife, a friend of mine. She also led one camp for Osaka one time, and three of us live on the island. And the others come by very 40 minutes from Takamatsu City. And this was, I think, a global translation day meetup. This is my wife and newborn baby. The kids are there, and I have new dogs. So this is me. So about WordPress in Japan. I'm not sure if this is really incorrect, but something from WCtext.com. It says, if you look at the websites, and if they use some kind of CMS, 85% of the CMS is WordPress, it says. But I'm not sure about this number, but it's real. And if you look at this globally, 6% of the WordPress installs in Japan, in the Hong Kong, it's running the Japanese local. Yeah, so it's quite loud. So as I started learning WordPress with the books, there are really a lot of books. So if you search WordPress in Amazon.zero.jp, you'll find 365 books. They are real paper books. Yeah, and this is mine. And it looks like if you publish a WordPress book, it says, so publisher comes to the community and look for the next author. So it's like you join the community and you learn and you share your knowledge, and then publish a book. Yeah, it works that way. So Meet Us in Japan, we have over 25 Meet Us every month. Yeah, everywhere. So it's a Google Calendar. It's linked from jade.org. And we cannot see this clearly, but it said Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagasaki, Miyazaki, so it's everywhere. So we can look at these numbers, but there are people who really come to these places and then they talk something. So maybe they have new people every time and someone is talking something. Impressive. So I'm going to talk about history. Why is it like this? So WordPress in Japan started in 2003. And if you know when WordPress project started, it's quite early. So WordPress is a fork of another software, called Meet Us, and it was a Jibyo licensed software. And then Mademois and Mike Lio decided to fork it and named it WordPress and just after six months, a Japanese user called Otsukare founded and he thought he would make it a Japanese version. And then around this time, WordPress did not have the ability to translate it effectively. So it means you go into all the files and you just rewrite all the English to Japanese and he did it for almost every version. So I was not here. Yeah, you need to wait five years. And 2004, I found this very interesting but Otsukare, the main mentor of the Japanese version, he posted this thing on the support forum and it says, it opened 14 years ago and it has 100 comments. So this is the web archive of the Japanese version page. It was for WordPress Me. So this is the forum. You can still look at this. And it says, this is Otsukare from Japan and I have a problem in translation so I have a suggestion and it says translate language files like LAMDE or LAMFR, LAMJA.phd so that you can just hit it that far to translate everything. And in this thread, some people are talking about get text. And here, as a forum moderator, he says that well, the localization code should be or into the main release sometime soon. So now we can translate very easily and you can reuse the translation if you have time. Great work. The first work camp was done in 2008 and 60 people showed up. So now, the 2012 one, we had 1,400 people. And then it was combined with the PHP conference and if you combine that, people could come and go to both sides. So it was over 2,000. 60 people is really a small number. And since then, Japan has had 22 work camps every year. Here, they are talking about I'm going to talk about many things about what I start with work camps. So they look like this. As usual, my session is done. Maybe this was a workshop. How to review your website from your background. This is like a talk, I guess. And this one, we have a tatami in the Japanese floor. We brought that to set up a place where you can come and join together and booth. So this one is like a sponsor. This is a book store. We invited a book store to come to the venue so that people can buy PHP books and books and of course, WordPress books. And this is a job session happening in Kansai area. So they picked the artist from the codename of WordPress versions. They picked the music in that lunchtime. It was really nice. And this one, it says booth tour. So companies offered sponsorship to work camps. And our issue was not everyone goes to the booth. So maybe two times a day they have a booth tour and we take everybody there and say, hey, this company does this and this people will have one minute tour and then you go to the place. And we have contributors days. I joined the World Camp San Francisco in 2012 thanks to the, they paid some money for my trip to San Francisco. It was really helpful and I noticed that they are doing something. Like they work together on WordPress. And since then World Camp Tokyo and Osaka Day always have another contributor's day. And interesting thing is that every time we ask how many have done it before or who has, who are here for the first time and 70% of audiences are like for the first time. It means like we lose someone every time. But I'm sure that there are some people who remain and continue to work on it. So it's really great. We mainly do the steam review, documentation and translation and a little bit of core contributions and a little bit of ECLI. So everyone can have like nice things. Like stamps. This is cake and that was someone came to us and they set up a booth and he said okay I'm gonna draw your face. So this year Japan will have World Camp Tokyo I guess it's not confirmed yet and it's confirmed that Osaka will have one and there will come another one. Yeah! As I said it's 100 people and 50 cats. It's a very small land and I'm gonna have a school chain. We expect 150 people around this area and from Port of Hanoi you are welcome. But what I'm trying to do here is to have the first World Camp which is not held in big cities. Like somehow it sounds like World Camps should be in really big cities but it's not. If you have 50 people and you talk about the World Camp the whole day then it's World Camp. So I want to show that everyone can do this by doing small things. It's gonna be nice. So the organizers who have not done before have to work. Next, World Bench we call it World Bench and it has a logo. So we have a website we have like a World Bench Tokyo, it's a local meter so we started before like meter.com came in so we set up our website it's a usual one so and it looks like this. Yeah, like everywhere. So these events are the one you saw in the calendar. That calendar includes more like World Bench like small meetups which is not World Bench but they follow the rules. So local meetups in Japan are called World Bench and the website was launched in 2008 by Takayuki Miyoshi he's also but he's also like a great thinker and a work that he presented that we need to have some places or maybe names and websites so that we can come together and talk locally. So it's a body press website I forgot the version number but it was like really early like a body press. Currently we have 59 World Benches everywhere and I run World Bench so we have World Camp, World Bench and we have a lot more on something. So the first one is World Science so it's a something for Japanese WordPress contributors so we have community channel translate channel and run them and everything. And now we have 319 one members so every time we have contributors we ask them to join so that we can send the files or themes and some of them remain and keep working on things they don't have contributors so it's a it works as a hub to communicate online. So it's really good too. The next one is World card before it's a card game so you play like this and it's also translated into English. We have English question too. So it works like we have two types of cards so question and answers and it says like for example it's a template type to output your page or post then you need to choose okay that's a party and you collect the files and the more you have you win. So the creator is there I think this is from World Camp. It's really good to have this kind of like a game type thing at your World Camp and some people are really strong it's funny and there's an English poll they called it like this I was stuck I'm going to give a talk about the community and I know that but what else people did this so waiting for the party inside a WordPress community and friends and there's a cooking run so I'm not sure if they talk about WordPress yet but this photo comes from I guess like a 2010 or something I realized that so you like your WordPress and you like people so why not you do other things like a cooking club, paid work and also onsen onsen is also like it's held like three times in Fukushima area and Hokkaido area so they do have sessions but the thing is they come together and then they stay on the same team with the home screens and one beach you go to the beach and one crab it's the same concept as one onsen you eat crabs we once had this in Tokyo too we went to Microsoft and we wanted to do this in Tokyo and we brought on the crabs and the smells were spreading inside the room and we haven't had anything like this in Tokyo and World Volcano in Kagoshima area we have Sakura Jima Volcano so I think these types of WordPress World Volcano things like this they can be World Volcano but somehow we didn't like go like that World Bash concept is so we know that the sessions are great workshops are great but we also know that after parties are great so why not like do it at the same time so the speakers they talk about things kind of a discussion but they are like views so everyone can like a dream or not dream and they talk it says the title it says climate from the beginning so that it's an event which starts from I want to talk so who has seen this character for the first time oh sorry oh so Waku is famous yeah so I want to talk a little bit about this one so yeah she is the creator of Waku her name is Kansukoku so WordPress community like when Manu Morovi was in Tokyo they talked about how to spread the community yeah they had a discussion and they came up with an idea should have a mascot character and now for talk too they started working on it this is the first draft for like a sketch and you can see number number one E it's like the current Waku and when I read an article at Waku.us it said that they chose that one because you can like change something it's very easy to like change things to express something and it looks like it worked yeah yeah now there are really a lot of work to say for this but one thing I found interesting was in for short short short while I got some period it was going around in Japan only and in that time they were like holding something and wearing something that was the only thing we didn't change how the Waku does this yeah once it spread to the wall more free in the wall they were like riding bikes and like a line down so it's evolving really nicely so it started from Japan but it's only global it's not it's everybody's Waku now it's really great so one thing is here's the author of this API so Waku is an API so if you go to this endpoint you get this data and you can do many things you can get like out of the image file as long as there's some descriptions and you can add your Waku here too so it's a post-it on GitHub and there's a csv file so that everyone can just delete the cs file then you get this so cs is Waku this one so it's and shall we look at that yes of course this is my favorite one if you look at that Waku with the IE8 the Japanese community is really enjoying WordPress itself and also the community things we have the freedom and it's like working WordPress is great and community is great and it's growing like this but here are my thoughts how you can play a growing community I think it's like what can you add to the next person so you can give your knowledge of WordPress and also you can give them your files and you can give your event too like what can Tokyo have has had many moderators so they run once a month but not always the same person do that so if you find the next person you just give it to him it keeps growing so you can give your leadership too yeah when I was like I was doing the meetup groups I knew like who could do that so come together and this will be great if you continue doing this I assure you you will earn a lot of money somehow it works like it said I read something about WordPress I don't know if it's still on WordPress.org but I read that somewhere if you do something good somehow it comes back to you and it's true so you can give your leadership to someone else and start new things or start the same thing like someone else so WordPress community told me a lot of things and then it's it concludes how you build around events and we made friends so if you enjoy this community you can start from many things so please do the same thing to your next class yep and if you have any questions do like who will come yeah you're okay I'm not sure like 150 tickets I'm not sure I have both feelings no one comes or it sounds like a real movie who bought that ticket what? who bought that ticket no everyone everyone can buy the ticket okay so we were just playing yeah so it's the first time and that one can build a real camp like in a tent and then you sleep there individuals we are on the way to build up some casual people we are on the way back over here when it comes to the work people say something technically how to communicate what do you actually over there doing the casual people like this still talk about WordPress yes I think here they didn't I don't know maybe they didn't hear but they had a session full session day and then they stayed at the same place where they have on-center and they stayed a night together do you mean that they stayed in the on-center bad and you're talking about WordPress yeah yeah like yes they talk about WordPress on-center too but yeah it's good to not you need to be professional but also like you can just be friends