From Events to Relationships: Building Connections Across Asian Open Source Communities
- Time
- 2026-08-08 11:20 ~ 11:50
- Speaker
- Shinji Enoki
- Room
- TR410
- Co-write
- https://hackmd.io/ryU-xNl8fe
Abstract
In Asian open source communities, conferences and regional events play an important role in creating personal connections across countries and projects. However, maintaining collaboration after events is often much more difficult than starting it.
In regions using CJK languages, communities share practical challenges such as localization, typography, and translation workflows, creating strong opportunities for regional collaboration.
This presentation shares practical experiences from LibreOffice Asia Conference, Wikimedia ESEAP activities, COSCUP, and GNOME Asia Summit. Using examples primarily from LibreOffice and Wikimedia communities, the talk covers what worked and what did not in practice, including co-hosting with other communities, social events, and post-event online communication.
The talk also discusses common challenges such as language barriers, limited volunteer capacity, and sustaining collaboration after events.
This session offers practical observations on what makes cross-community events effective, and why sustaining connections afterward remains a challenge across Asian open source communities.
Speaker
Shinji Enoki
Shinji Enoki (榎真治) is a member of the LibreOffice Japanese Team and The Document Foundation, where he also serves on the Membership Committee. He focuses on organizing events and community activities and occasionally contributes to QA efforts.
He is also involved in various open source and open data communities. His roles include staff member of the Wikimedians of Japan User Group, organizing member of the Nextcloud Japan community, and volunteer staff for the Japan UNIX Society and KANSAI OPEN SOURCE. He is also a casual mapper on OpenStreetMap, among other activities.
He is also a local organizing staff member for the Wikimedia ESEAP Summit 2027, to be held in Osaka.
He works as a freelancer and is developing a LibreOffice support business in Japan