How to Grow Your Community - Case Study of CoderDojo in Japan: Reaching to 200+ Dojos

These are the slides used at Scratch Conference Europe 2019! 🗣💖
https://scratchconferenceeurope.raspberrypi.org/
https://coderdojo.com/2019/08/30/6-insightful-talks-at-scratch-conference-europe/

☯️ Website https://coderdojo.jp
🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoderDojoJapan
👤 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coderdojo.jp

🎧 DojoCast https://coderdojo.jp/podcasts
📚 DojoKata https://coderdojo.jp/kata
📊 DojoStats https://coderdojo.jp/stats
📰 DojoLetter https://news.coderdojo.jp
📺 DojoChannel https://coderdojo.jp/youtube
📅 Upcoming Events https://coderdojo.jp/events

Also used and recorded at Code Club & CoderDojo casual meetup! 🤝✨

Meetup agenda:
📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94GDfaSQTmL1ne3U8tRoz9IavydP7onH
👤 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/451980928797694/
📅 Doorkeeper: https://coderdojo-japan.doorkeeper.jp/events/101239?locale=en

Transcript

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2. ҆઒ ཁฏ Yohei Yasukawa
   CEO of YassLab Inc. & Co-founder of CoderDojo Japan
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4. ☕ From OpenSource Cafe in 2012
   

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5. Tech × Kids × Free
   

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6. Learn from Each Other
   

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7. Show & Tell your Product
   

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8. Enjoy beyond Generations
   

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11. How?
    
    

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12. What
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13. That’s my
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14. Let’s look inside Japan
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15. In the early days
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16. CoderDojo in Tokyo
    the 1st, small dojo in Japan
    

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17. Every Weekend
    have a session
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    300+ only in the 1st dojo in Tokyo)
    

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21. People stop by,
    get inspired, and
    start remixing a dojo.
    

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22. EPKPT
    

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23. EPKPT
    

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24. EPKPT
    

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25. EPKPT
    

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26. “Remix”
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27. Early Days: Remix ♻
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28. Recent Days: Collaboration
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29. 1. Documents
    2. Meetups
    3. Highlights
    4. Partners
    

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30. Documents
    to be more self-directed
    

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31. CoderDojo Charter (ݑষ)
    

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32. cf. https://www.slideshare.net/MasanoriNezumiya/coderdojo-79835899
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    Illustrate how ݑষ works
    

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33. Illustrate how ݑষ works
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    cf. https://coderdojo.jp/#welcome
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34. Kata (ܕ) helps your action
    

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    with "Autonomy" and “Cooperation”, Information Processing Society of Japan (Junya Ishihara, 2017)
    

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36. Meetups
    to be more connected
    

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38. 8݄: DojoCon Japan 2016
    

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39. “Share”
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42. ONLY ONE
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43. Various reasons
    to attend,
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    to start a dojo.
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44. Some kid says about learning:
    “Web, Books, and CoderDojo”
    When you find something interesting:
    1. Google it by Web
    2. Search it by Books
    3. Ask it by CoderDojo
    

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    “Attending CoderDojo pushes up my motivation to learn more and more.
    In this community you meet various people in ages, fields, and hobbies.
    You will discover new things in yourself from such a diverse community.”
    cf. i:Engineer, Persol Technology https://persol-tech-s.co.jp/i-engineer/human/coderdojo
    

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46. Another one
    calls for members to
    start a dojo
    because
    no dojos
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47. Highlights
    to share what we learned.
    

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48. DojoCast
    https://coderdojo.jp/podcasts
    

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49. ⏺
    
    

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50. ⏺
    
    

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51. DojoLetter
    https://news.coderdojo.jp
    

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52. Upcoming Events
    https://coderdojo.jp/events
    

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53. Facebook & Twitter
    https://twitter.com/CoderDojoJapan
    https://facebook.com/coderdojo.jp/
    

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54. https://coderdojo.jp/stats
    Stats on Dojo
    

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55. Partners
    to make Dojos more fun!
    

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56. CoderDojo Japan
    got incorporated in 2016
    

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57. as one of regional bodies.
    

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58. ☯ ✨
    https://coderdojo.jp/#partners
    

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59. SAKURA internet
    provides ‘servers’ with each dojo.
    

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60. donates 350+ laptops/desktops
    

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61. provides ‘online platform’ to learn programming.
    

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63. 1. Documents
    2. Meetups
    3. Highlights
    4. Partners
    

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64. Recent Days: Collaboration
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65. Hope this talk
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