3. Satoshi Nagayasu
• Database Engineer
• Data Center Engineer
• ITSM Specialist
• Data Steward
• System Architect
• Co-founder
• CTO
4. What I Did in PostgreSQL
• pgstatindex
• pageinspect
• xlogdump
– ... and lots of rejected patches!
• Patch review
• PostgresForest, Postgres-XC
– at my prev jobs
6. Japanese PostgreSQL
Communities
• Japan PostgreSQL Users Group
– A Non-profit Organization by Individuals and
Supporting Companies.
– Founded 15 Years Ago
• PostgreSQL Enterprise Consortium
– A Kind of Business Alliance for Enterprise
Users (Corporations)
– Founded A Few Years Ago
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8. Japan PostgreSQL Users
Group (JPUG)
• A Non-profit Organization by Individuals
and Supporting Companies.
• Founded 15 Years Ago.
• To Promote and Evangelize PostgreSQL
9. JPUG Mission
• Promote PostgreSQL usage in Japan
• To be acknowledged OSS RDBMS
• Research and development on
PostgreSQL
• Release PostgreSQL information
• Promote personal exchange in the
society
11. Brief History of JPUG
• 1996/12 pgsql-jp (ML) started
• 1999/7 JPUG (a private org.)
• 2006/2 JPUG (authorized NPO)
• 2009/11 10th Anniv. Conf.
• 2014/12 15th Anniv. Conf.
12. To Build the Community, We
Did...
• Create a mailing list.
• Make events, meet each other, and
invite experts and developers.
• Translate documents.
• Outreach by presenting at tech
events and writing articles/books.
13. Before JPUG
• pgsql-jp, a mailing-list, was started
in 1996 before JPUG.
• Mailing-list was very popular for
software engineers in Japan.
• Hundreds of e-mails per month.
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21. Expansion
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• Authorized as an nonprofit organization by
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• 54 official members, 24 directors, and 3,600
web members
• Established 9 branches covering major cities
• Established 3 working groups for specific
interests
23. Focuses & Activities
• Providing PostgreSQL Information
– Translating the official docs into Japanese
– The “Letʼs Postgres” Web Site
– Sending speakers to several tech events
• Educating Users
– Holding study meetups
• Connecting People
– Holding several own events/meetups
– Providing basic infrastructure, such as
web&ML.
28. Working Groups
• Architecture & Internal Study WG
• Web Admin WG
• Documentation & Translation WG
• Study Meetup WG
29. Events
• Annual Conferences
– Internals, Architecture and Technical
– Case Studies
• Meetups
– By Branches
– By WGs
• Unconfernces
• Study camp
• Outreach at several OSS related events
– OSC (Open Source Conference) Series
31. Unconferences
• Build a program in a collaborative way.
(No program committee)
• Encourage to share own interests &
experiences in the community. (We
welcome junior engineers!)
• Extremely Interactive! (Enjoy
the discussions!)
36. What I Focus On
Right Now
• Looking for new heroes
– Encourage younger/junior engineers, and
push them onto the stage!
• Having Global Perspective
– Strongly interested in Asian countries.
• Connecting Communities
– Letʼs start from persons, but communities
matter.
38. Connecting Communities
• PostgreSQL Conference 2014 Japan
– Was held in Japan last week
• Speakers from Asian/APAC countries
– From China, India, Indonesia, Australia
– Was a first challenge for JPUG
• Time to consider pan-Asian PostgreSQL
Conference?
– Wish to connect more communities!