Re: [tlug] List of Japanese Open Source Projects?

[Gen Kanai <gkanai@example.com>]

Hi Jesse,

This is a great question without a clear answer.

Ruby is probably the clearest example of OSS from Japan.

A separate example:

Andrew Morton said back in May '08 that 15% of the Linux kernel was  
coming from Japanese contributors (mainly developers from "NEC,  
Hitachi, Fujitsu, NTT, Sony, Toshiba, Canon and Red Hat and from  
universities including Tokyo University and Waseda University.")

http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2008/07/16/significant-linux-contributors-from-japan/

That's pretty significant in my book.

Another key piece of OSS is the work on the networking stack of BSD,  
as well as the IPV6 implementation for BSD which Junichiro "itojun"  
Hagino was a key contributor.

http://blog.icann.org/2007/11/rest-in-peace-itojun-ipv6-pioneer/

http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_10-4/104_remembering.html

http://kerneltrap.org/OpenBSD/Jun-ichiro_itojun_Hagino

While not OSS in the traditional sense, the work that WIDE project did  
to set up the Internet in Japan, including running the M Root Server  
(Aug. '97), which I think was the first root server in Asia, is  
clearly significant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver

http://www.wide.ad.jp/

I'd love to hear other examples of OSS from Japan.

Gen


On Oct 6, 2009, at 5:14 AM, Jesse Casman wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm a TLUG fan and lurker from San Francisco. Quick question for the
> group: Are there any good online resources covering Japanese open
> source projects? Ruby, of course, is famous. I'm interested in finding
> out more projects that either started in Japan or still only really
> exist in Japan. Any suggestions of individual projects or sites that I
> can look at (either English or Japanese) would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers from Fog City,
> Jesse
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