The Linux Foundation Member Summit 2025

Open source is everywhere. Anyone can use it and anyone can contribute codes to the community regardless of the countries and regions. It is inherently borderless.In the meantime, it is also true that most of the critical open source projects are English speaking communities. This actually creates a gap between English speaking regions and non-English speaking regions in terms of the knowledge about the technologies as well as opportunity to get involved in the community development. There has to be a “Bridge” to fill the gap.

The Linux Foundation Japan office launched a program to solve this issue by launching the Japan Evangelist Program, which has been a big success so far. The evangelists can also become a community by itself, they become a force to connect multiple communities to co-work to create larger values as well as sharing best practice to run meetup etc, which has been a nice side effect of the program.

In this session, through the discussion with the panelists (they are all Japan Evangelists) we would like to elaborate how the program is actually working.