 Good morning, I'm sorry, good afternoon. I'm so excited, I'm so excited to introduce Michi Jinishi-Kawa, who is going to talk about personal health first aid like virus, aid in children and life, misunities, which is not as worst as the MSI media, can be some he is, and personal health was cares that he's my family. And he cares for, he cares for showing you what he has done, and for how he got, is for him. His time is welcome for you. Hello. So, gosh. Okay, so my name is Shin Michi-Michi-Kawa. People call me Shin, call me Shin please. And today I'm talking, I'm going to talk about personal projects run by WordPress. I've done a lot, and they changed my life. So I'm going to talk about that, and I encourage you to do the same. So, what are, what are like, personal projects? So here's my definition. They are something that are not work. It's not work, you don't get money. You can, you're allowed to do that, for me, like a personal ones that are not work. And they're not just play. And they are playful. And also it is run by you, like me, and your family, and all your friends who resonate your playfulness and project goal. And it can be one-time thing, like at this event, or like a continuous effort, like you do every month, you continue doing that, like forever, to make something new happen. Yeah, those are the projects. Today I'm going to share you about my project, and why projects, those projects can drive our lives to go forward. So, yeah, I'm going to talk about them. And before this is about me, I really love WordPress. And I live on a Ogi island in Japan. It's an island of 150 people, and 300 wild boars. Yeah, it is. And I used to live in Bangkok for three years, until three years ago. Yeah, my family are my wife, three children, and two dogs. Originally from Japan, Tokyo. Yeah, I wrote WordPress books. I run WordPress news media. I'm a podcaster, and I organize work camps and meetings. For example, I led the organizing team of a work camp Tokyo 2012, and I did that last year on our island. Yeah. Currently my job is a director of clients. This is Japan, a human being. So, this is a, yeah, pictures. This is how I used to work until three years ago. Yeah, at Ecomines, a whole working space, Hava. Yeah, and yeah, that was, I think, five years ago. This is a WordPress meetup in Bangkok. And this is how I do now. It's on the island. So small island with a few people. So, this is this, this size. This is the island I live. Can you please switch off the light in front of this one? Thank you, yeah. So, my kids, I have more and more now. These are like fish I get from my fishermen friends. So, I don't need to go to supermarkets, but like they give me fish, but like they give me fish like this. So, I need to stop working and cut them before eating them. Yeah. Also, this is a co-working space I'm building now. Like, yeah, it's almost done. Yeah, it's in front of my house. It's an old, rotten building. Yeah. Yeah, okay. So, let's start talking about my projects. So, the first one is Capital Key. It's a WordPress community news media. I do this with two friends. And, yeah, they talk about events, news, and a little bit of development stuff. But the idea is, so if your native language is in English, then you get to see a name.wordpress.org or a lot of news going on. But if you don't speak English or can't read or you want to avoid them, then you're left out from what's going on really. So, you suddenly see new features in WordPress and such. So, we are aiming to provide more news what's going on really. Yeah. So, this is one. And we have Capital Key podcast as well. And we have a Slack team too. So, this is basically a copy of WPTarzan or POPstatus projects, if you know them. I think someone can do the same in Thai language or your local languages. Yeah. So, the benefit of doing this is you really catch up on news. You need to create your news, then you need to read many things. And through doing that, you learn a lot. I'm interested in doing this in your language. Thai version? Yeah, so. Next one is Kodogor is child and Gorg is logging. This is my first project. This is my first WordPress website. And it's a personal one. It was not my job. So, what it does is, this is a multi-site website protected by passwords. So, parents come to this website, create blogs and they upload kids pictures and share that page to grandma, grandpa, your close friends, so that it can be more secure and protected rather than posting them on Facebook or something else, yeah. So, how I started this one. So, whenever I got my first child, it's a cute little baby girl. And I felt like I was losing my daughter every day because she changes a lot. So, next day she's a little bit different. When I look at a one week old picture, like a picture I took one week ago, one month ago, I feel like, oh, I'm losing her. And feeling I hold her, it changed every day. So, I needed to blog it somewhere. And I was doing that on a public blog service in Japan and someone found it and posted on the channel which is out of nowhere and my wife didn't like that. So, I created one for myself, private blog. And then I presented it as like for a friend who had new babies. And I felt like, now, I can make it into a SAS model. Like, they just come, they create their own blogs, they do the same thing, yeah. I still maintain them, like they are, keep clicking update WordPress button and they are keep saving people's photos in secret places, yeah. So, and since this was my first project, it took more than one year from when I started to really release it. And through the process, I got to learn, like how to search plugins first. I didn't know how to code. Then you realize plugins cannot solve everything. So, I needed to fix them, so how to customize them. And also, multi-site architecture functions. This is seven years old website. So, just after WordPress 3.0, when multi-site architecture was built into WordPress. So, not much information about that, and especially in Japanese. So, yeah, I learned a lot. And then I did multiple multi-site projects because others quite, yeah, like I knew more than other people in Japan. And also, I had the chance to communicate with the community people. I didn't know how to code, so I asked them the questions on Twitter. So, I suddenly come up to WordPress community in Japan and I mentioned people, okay, you must know how to fix this. This is the screenshot of the error. This is the error message. They started like answering me. So, they noticed he's doing something and we don't know who he is. But they said, okay, you need to come to a meet-up. And I went to a meet-up and that was the first time I was involved in WordPress community. And also, after published this release of this, a newspaper came to feature this one. Then some venture capital came to me. I didn't get any money, but I learned how the world is moving, how it works. So, through this one tiny project, I learned a lot of things. I got friends, I joined the community and so many, many things happened. So, this is the first project I started. So, these are, I'm a podcaster. Who has a podcast program? I'm creating one. Do you use WordPress to host the podcast? Oh, no, you can do that. And, yeah, yeah, of course. I need to hear from you. Yeah. Yeah. So, who runs a blog in this room? Yeah, like 10, yeah, like 30%. So, it's as easy as what you're doing. And, it has different effect. So, no one comes to your podcast through Content SEO, because they are context. But, it's different and it's really interesting. So, this is Ogi Virgil, the radio program about the life on the island. So, it's me, friends and my family, kids. So, we talk many things. So, this is really a good way of recording your thought. Like what you're thinking at that point of your life. So, after moved onto this island, we seek for, like, okay, my house is too loud for work place. What do we do? There is an old house in front of my house. Let's fix it into a new office. Something like that. And, me and my wife talk about that and we publish it. Yeah. And also, it's fun to listen to it after many years. And also, it attracts people who wants to know what the island is all about. Or, like, they just get interested and they come to my house. Like, hey, I visited an Ogi island and I'm a listener of this podcast. Can I talk? And, yeah. So, this is really interesting. This is an old one. It's not updated anymore. It's about our life and move immigration to Thailand. So, I came to Thailand as a tourist seven years ago and I found a cool working space. And I went there and I saw a lot of people doing the same thing I was doing in Tokyo. And I thought, okay, I'm going to do this. And I went back to my hotel and told my family, okay, are we going to move here? And they said, hey, yeah. So, then we started, like, recording our stuff. Like, it's more, how we say, like, a recorder. You just switch on, then you get an MP3. You install the plug-in to your WordPress and you upload it and publish and it's done. Yeah. So, it's very easy. This helped me getting understood by supporters. Like, instead of, okay, we are going to move to Thailand. You say something. You share your thought and they listen to it. Then they come to you with advice or you should be connected to this person or you should go there. And I have more, like, information about that. Yeah. So, it was really helpful. And also, podcasts, like them. So, you talk a lot. Then you need to explain many things to your friends or your wife or even when you're, like, talking alone. And that's a really good way of out-putting what's in your mind. Yeah. Who's interested in it. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm going to tweet some plug-ins and how to set them up. But the question was how do you do that and where are the MP3 files? Personally, I share it on the same environment. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to maintain them. So, I use it on the share hosting account. Yeah. And I upload them. Yeah. So, I'm going to tweet some plug-ins and how to set them up. But the question was how do you do that on the share hosting account? Yeah. And I upload that. Okay. So, what's the... Yeah, blog feed and XML. So, podcasts are basically a different version of RSS. So, yeah. So, I install the plug-in to generate that feed. Yes. Okay. Next is a webcam. So, Ubi Juma is the island. Ubi Island. So, we'd like this. This is a view from a ferry. So, it doesn't make sense. The ferry is really there. But this is a view. So, on an island of 150 people, we had a world camp of 250. And we didn't have hotel, inns and etc. And it's far from the mainland. So, we let people camp on the island. So, this is... I think this is... I've never had other world camps who did the camps, really. And one funny problem we had was for the first time attendees of world camps. So, we announced... We are going to have a world camp and all local people come to our island and they're going to have a camp. And we noticed that the first time attendees, like those who had a world camp for the first time, they thought world camps are always including real camps. Yeah. Yeah. But it's all about that. Okay. So, here I have a few. So, we don't have a conference hall or business buildings. So, we did it in a school gym. Yeah. And no air conditioner and it was really hot. So, we bought a lot of fans and bought 150 kilograms of ice. And we need to buy them and such. So, I have a video here and I'm going to share... I'm not so sure if this works. I'm not so sure if this works. You are not so sure. You have to do a lot of stuff. You are going to have to do a lot of things. I'm going to go in the bunker. I'm going to show things on the camera. And you go to the steam room and you have to show the steam room. Yeah. Not this, yeah. To do it again. Oh, sorry. And yeah, like a drinks and everything and we didn't have a huge screen, so we built it. That's how we did it. Honestly, it was friends. So I lived with two people, like a world camp, a world-class-related people. Only two. And that was the only one time, like, face-to-face meeting. And else, we did it on Zoom, on camps, because we needed to know which attendee comes what sign, on which ferry, and go, sleeps in which tent, and eats what and goes back when. So we listed everyone, like this, and this is how the team should work. So this was really a lot of jobs compared to the one camp Tokyo, which happened in the middle of the city. So, all my friends, I met some of them for the first time in this project. We published, we are going to do it, and you can join. And they came to the website and such. So, yeah. So I have only five days left. I'm going to rush. I'm going to talk about, like, why the world-class meeting. When I moved to, since, no, until then, I learned a lot from the community. So I wanted to learn, again, in Thailand. I knew there were talented developers. So I decided to have an event once a month at the co-working space I work. And I just, like, continued doing that. And here's the website, and it describes what was the struggle I had. So this is one of the bankokumita group. But here, what is that? November 30th, I think, 2014 or something. So let's talk about the future of bankokumita community. What it is. So before we did a lot of things like the PCLI, team building and such. But, like, really big wall. So, language problem. And, yeah, this is what we did, like, how to solve that problem together. And we didn't talk about world-class, but we talked about only community. I think this picture is after that event. And also, yeah, so you need to do many things by yourself, but, like, you need to talk to your friends to accomplish or, like, to continue something. And if you look at that picture, there are a lot of the members of the organizers of this world camp. So, yeah, if you keep doing it and focus on, like, communication and what they can do, it can lead to such a great event. And, yeah, that was what press, yeah. Next, don't be Zoom up. This is an online version of Mita. So, yeah, online version of WordPress Mita. Twice a month. And one is a session. We say, okay, let's talk about security. Let's talk about backup or something. And people come and give sessions and Q&A. Another one is just communication. It's not a topic, but no one is giving sessions. And every time we get 50 to 100 attendees, and we run this by six members. And, of course, we have after-party. And the good point of this one is you drink. And you don't need to get on a taxi or trains to go back to your home, because your bed is there. And the problem you have is it lasts forever. If you are at a bar, then someone comes to you and, hey, we're closing, you need to go home, right? No one says that again. So, yeah, we usually have this until 3 o'clock in the morning. Yeah. But this is fun. And this connects a lot of people around Japan and actually Japanese people outside of China who want to learn about one press in their language regardless of where they are. So it's not only for city people, it's for locals. But that's sometimes very difficult if you're really far from cities or you don't have any friends around you. Yeah. So I really recommend you to do this. This is really easy. Yeah. I'm planning to publish how we run this project and what you need to do to promote, to organize everything, no fights, and etc. Yeah. This is an example. Like we publish reports like what happened, what was discussed, what was taught. Yeah. And also we record them and put it on YouTube and Facebook group. It has also the live streaming. So when we start the event, we live stream this. Yeah. So people can find us really easy. Yeah. And personally, for me, the next one, what camps and meetups is also a part of my personal project. So I really don't have the time. Anyway. Okay. So my life before I met Noah and Chris. So the problem was I didn't know what I was doing. I used to be apprentice of a billionaire, like my mentor was a billionaire and I worked for him personally. And I went to a lot of startups and then surprised with him because he was a consultant. And the next job was a secretary of a parliament member. And I called them their election campaign. I was also an account manager of a creative agency. The problem was I felt like I didn't fit in these jobs. I don't know. I really didn't know what I wanted at the time. I just felt like it's not fun. Yeah. And while I was doing account manager of a creative agency, I met, I heard of One Press for the first time. It was a big project. And we were preparing our proposal using Japanese companies Enterprise, CMS, and EcoMass solution. There came a One Press guy and he took a One Press project, a website project away from us. And because it was, first of all, much cheaper and also he had a lot of features in it, more than the Enterprise CMS. So that was the first time. And when I left, and then I lost my job, this one, when I had my first child. And what I did was, okay, I need to find a way to earn money by my own skill. And the developers who took the job from me, I mean the website project, there was like super freedom people, like the individuals, and I wanted to be like them because once the company falls down, I lose my job. But all the designers ordered in my company the ones who use One Press. They're fine, they still can get their jobs somewhere else. So it affected me a lot. And then I started building the co-loc project, learning One Press and Photoshop, et cetera, myself. So, rubber, so they drive our thoughts. You talk, you need to talk to your friends, and you need to think a lot. Relationship and life. And friends, yeah, maybe you understand now. You need a lot of friends to run these projects. And I want to talk a little bit about thoughts. So asking a lot of why is, if you run a project, if you come up with an idea, or maybe an online version of Meetup, why not? And then you start it. But since you're investing your time, you need to question yourself, why am I doing this? Like, what's the purpose? Just fun? It's fine, if it's fine. But maybe sometimes not. And also, you need to write something on your website. Then you need to output something. And since no one is doing similar things, you need to think about why, why. And also, you talk to your friend, hey, are you going to do this with me? Then you need to explain the value, the possible goals, or how fun it is, what's the benefit for them. And through doing multiple projects, you are thinking what you are doing, what you're living for. So that's the reason those projects, like small ones, will get in friends with many people, and with your thoughts. So that's my recommendation. And did you notice all of my projects are run by WordPress? See, like the media podcast, parenting blog service, Zoom app, etc. We use WordPress all everywhere. So you are very lucky here. You have WordPress, and you can do anything you want. A lot of plugins. And I really recommend you to join this journey with me. And that's the wrap up. Thank you.