Taking over to the Next Generation

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Taking over to the next generation

LinuxCon Japan 2016 Tokyo Satoru Ueda

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Retirement Age Regulation

60 It may be illegal in the United States, however…

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Don’t ask me!

Who is your successor?

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Question

I am wondering: Are my experiences worth taking over to the next generation?

Someone may be wondering: Is my role in open community should be taken over to someone?

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A Nightmare in Near Future?

The trouble seems caused by something from inside of this huge black box. However…

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1991

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25 years later

?

We have been enjoying Linux development!

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Reincarnation?

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Question 1: Worth taking over?

Is it worth taking over to the next

generation?

Yes, it is.

No, it isn’t.

Who can judge it?

Extinction of the knowledge

Evolution of the knowledge

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Question 2: Challenge to make it “Explicit Knowledge”

Method of “Explicit Knowledge”.

Convert to Explicit Knowledge

Patrimony through Story Telling?

Ordinal way!

Operation Manual Documentation Guideline

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Tacit knowledge and Explicit knowledge Tacit knowledge

Explicit knowledge

Easiness of the conversion Easy Not Easy

Before you retire, you must convert your tacit knowledge to explicit one! (Ordinal managers)

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Tacit knowledge and Explicit knowledge Tacit knowledge

Explicit knowledge

Easiness of the conversion Easy

Creating operation manuals

Preparing processes Writing books, blogs

OSS License Compliance

Each companies’ internal rules and guidelines

Challenge transferring to explicit knowledge!

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Tacit knowledge and Explicit knowledge Tacit knowledge

Explicit knowledge

Easiness of the conversion Not Easy

Can not help the way of Embryogenesis Steps?

Story telling Encouraging

Community beginners’ guideline

(Kernel Newbies)

Community experiences

Creating mutual respect and trust with the community

Give up transferring to explicit knowledge?

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Question 3: “Embryogenesis Steps”

Should the next generation people

follow the same path?

Yes, it is.

No, it isn’t. Example: “A story of specification”

Let them experience again

Evolution of the knowledge

Other methods to take over to the next generation?

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A story of Specification

•2003~04: CE Linux Forum created an Embedded Linux Standard Specifications

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:05:36PM -0700, > I am writing to announce the availability of the first draft of > the CE Linux Forum‘s first specification. This specification > represents the efforts of six different technical working groups > over about the last 9 months. If you want my 2 Cent: - stop these rather useless specifications and provide patchkits instead - try to actually submit the patches upstream to get a feeling which of your 'features' are compltely hopeless, which are okay and which can better be solved in different ways.

May be without any real experience, it is so hard to learn.

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Let them Follow Embryogenesis Steps?

Should we let the next generation people to follow our past steps of evolution? Just resembling to the case of embryogenesis process.

I think it not always to be realistic.

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Isn’t it too huge to deal with?

•Should I read through this huge resources? •Should I follow the trail of nearly 25 years of Linux history?

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YATOS – Yet Another Teachable Operating System

•A proposal by Takeharu Kato • https://github.com/takeharukato/yatos

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YATOS – Yet Another Teachable Operating System

•Would it be attractive for young people? • How to make it attractive?

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Traditional performing arts , also inherit “skills to inherit”

Is it required developing the way to take over the technologies to the next generation?

伝統芸能は、継承の技能も継承している

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I would like to be optimistic!

At least, the next generation people also enjoy the Open Community Way…

Most of the concerns would be wiped away.

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Thank you very much for joining!