Preface
Hello everyone, I am Evan Lin, a Technical Evangelist at LINE Taiwan. This year, I began leading the Taiwanese engineering team for training in Japan, and have led two groups of Taiwanese engineers to Tokyo, Japan, for training. Every time I go to Tokyo for training, I also think about whether to participate in Tokyo's community events to understand the charm of the Japanese community.
Recently, I was elected as a Go GDE of Google, so I thought I'd visit the Tokyo community to meet Go GDE - Takuya Ueda in Tokyo. So I started contacting him on Twitter, trying to meet local community members during my business trip to Tokyo and share my experience of becoming a GDE.
I must say that Takuya Ueda is a very kind and helpful community person, and immediately helped me find a venue to host a meetup. Finally, the venue was set at Mercari, where he works, located in Roppongi.
(Mercari's office in Roppongi, 21F, has a conference room that can accommodate about 150 people)
- Community Golang Tokyo: https://golangtokyo.connpass.com/
- This event webpage: Event URL
Roppongi Adventure
I must say that after a busy day of meetings, it's a big challenge to force myself to take a trip on the Tokyo subway. After arriving at the Roppongi office, I also successfully met Go GDE - Takuya Ueda -san from Tokyo. Actually, 10/25 was also a big day for the Google Developer Expert Global Summit, but I had an On-Job-Training and a JSDC seminar on the weekend, so I had to reluctantly give it up. Ueda-san also couldn't attend because he was hosting GopherCon Tokyo Autumn 2019 on 10/28, but because of this, the two Go GDEs could meet at a community gathering in Tokyo.
(Evan Lin and Takuya Ueda, two Go GDEs, rarely on the same stage)
Go Community Meeting and the Charm of the Tokyo Community
Shortly after taking the photos, a small, interesting episode occurred. A Golang Meetup Organizer - Sinan from Turkey also came to meet us and discuss the community events held in Europe, Japan, and Taiwan. So we took this opportunity to take a photo of the three community organizers together.
( Golang Taipei - Evan Lin / Golang Tokyo - Takuya Ueda / Golang Izmir - Sinan)
What's different about holding community events in Japan compared to Taiwan is that Taiwan will first provide food and drinks for the guests to enjoy. Then, after the first speaker finishes, there will be a break for the guests to chat with each other before the second speaker's topic begins.
The Tokyo community is a bit different. They are used to having the speakers give both presentations at once, and then providing food (and beer) for the guests to enjoy and socialize.
Next, the topic sharing of this gathering began.
How I become Go GDE / Senior Development Technology Evangelist Evan Lin
Slides
How I become Go GDE from Evan Lin
Although the content of this presentation revolves around how to become a Go GDE (Google Developer Expert), a lot of the content actually describes some work experiences. The general content is that after ten years of working in a multinational multimedia software company, in order to learn new Web programming languages, I tried a lot of programming languages, and finally chose Golang to study. And in order to learn Golang in depth, I launched Project 52 as a way to learn Golang, and thus learned a lot of algorithms and advanced data format applications. Of course, because of sharing Golang and Project 52, I participated in a lot of community events and seminars, and became one of the organizers of Golang Taipei. Through continuous sharing and community management, I was fortunate enough to work at LINE as a Developer Relations and became a Go GDE. The outline of the content is very similar to the main content of COSCUP in 2016, but with some revisions and some sharing of my current experiences.
In fact, this was also my first time giving an English community speech. Although I have given some shorter speeches and impromptu discussions, preparing a nearly one-hour English speech also made me worry beforehand, and I was very satisfied with the flow and rhythm of the whole event.
After Party (懇親会)
After the speech, it was the second Go GDE - Takuya Ueda's speech (there didn't seem to be any slides). Although I couldn't understand Japanese, I could still feel the speaker's depth and ability just by looking at the slides.
Then came their after-party (also what we Taiwanese call the After party). At this time, the community organizers would put out food and beer to treat all the guests, and welcome everyone to eat, drink beer, and chat.
At first, the people who came to talk to me were Taiwanese friends working in Japan. In fact, most of the audience were foreigners and Taiwanese, and perhaps the Japanese were not so interested in topics in English.
(Meeting friends from Taiwan working in Tokyo)
In terms of community discussions, I also had a lot of questions to ask the organizers of the Tokyo community, why they put the food and drinks after the speeches? Wouldn't that cause the audience to be angry and leave halfway?
The Tokyo organizers also said that although similar situations have occurred, in order to consider letting everyone listen to the end and interact with everyone, they still decided to put the food out at the end.
In addition, we also talked about the issue of attendance rates. I was curious and asked: "The attendance rate of free community gatherings in Taiwan is about 70%, I wonder what the attendance rate in Tokyo is?"
The Japanese organizers said that this depends on the city. If it is a big city (like Tokyo), it may be that everyone is too busy with work and has too many choices, so the attendance rate is also about 70%. But if it is a community event held in a more rural area, it can reach over 80%.
At this time, I also participated in the discussion with a friend from Turkey. He shared that it was the same in big cities in Turkey. This made me smile, and it turned out that the community is really the same all over the world.
(With the Turkish organizer, Taiwanese partners, and on the right, the Japanese co-organizers from Mercari in Japan)
Event Summary
Through the opportunity of a business trip to Japan, I was able to get in touch with Japanese community events, and also chatted with local Taiwanese friends about the current work situation in Tokyo. It was truly an unforgettable experience.
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