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

These are the slides prepared and used for Scratch Conference Europe 2019. https://scratchconferenceeurope.raspberrypi.org

NOTE: This includes cut-out slides that are removed in my actual talk.

Me: https://twitter.com/yasulab

cf. 6 insightful talks at Scratch Conference Europe!
https://coderdojo.com/2019/08/30/6-insightful-talks-at-scratch-conference-europe/

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 × OpenSource
   

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6. Learning from each other
   

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7. Show & Tell
   

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8. Everyone ‘enjoys’ Dojo
   

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9. + in total
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   Growing year by year
   

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11. How?
    
    

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12. What
    makes it
    happen?
    
    

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13. That’s my
    my talk today.
    

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14. + in total
    TFTTJPOT
    Let’s look inside Japan
    ‑ Early days
    ➡
    Recent days
    

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15. + in total
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    In the early days
    ➡
    Recent days
    ‑ Early days
    

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17. CoderDojo in Tokyo
    the 1st, small dojo in Japan
    

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

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

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23. EPKPT
    

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24. EPKPT
    

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25. EPKPT
    

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26. EPKPT
    

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27. “Remix”
    often happens
    when people
    meet people
    

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28. + in total
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    Early Days: “Remix”
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    Recent days
    ‑ Early days
    

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29. + in total
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    Recent Days: “Collaboration”
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    Recent days
    ‑ Early days
    

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

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31. Meetups
    to be more connected
    

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33. 8݄: DojoCon Japan 2016
    

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34. “Share”
    frequently-
    asked questions
    beyond dojos
    

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37. ONLY ONE
    answer?
    
    

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38. Various reasons
    to attend,
    to mentor,

    to start a dojo.
    NO
    (at least in Japan)
    

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39. 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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41. Another one
    calls for members to
    start a dojo
    because
    no dojos
    around home.
    
    

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42. Partners
    to make Dojos more fun!
    

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43. ☯ CoderDojo Japan
    got incorporated in 2016
    

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44. as one of regional bodies.
    

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45. Many partners! ✨
    https://coderdojo.jp/#partners
    
    

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46. SAKURA Internet
    provides ‘servers’ with each dojo.
    

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47. donates 350+ laptops/desktops
    

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48. provides ‘online platform’ to learn programming.
    

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50. Documents
    to be more self-directed
    

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51. CoderDojo Charter (ݑষ)
    

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52. cf. https://www.slideshare.net/MasanoriNezumiya/coderdojo-79835899
    CoderDojo ݑষ
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    Each dojo can take action based on ݑষ
    Illustrate how ݑষ works
    

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53. Illustrate how ݑষ works
    We often use ‘Park’ as a metaphor for ݑষ
    cf. https://coderdojo.jp/#welcome
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54. Kata (ܕ) helps your action
    

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    w/ governor’s video message
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    cf. Workshops in Informatics Education: An Open Programming Workshop, CoderDojo is Expanding
    with "Autonomy" and “Cooperation”, Information Processing Society of Japan (Junya Ishihara, 2017)
    

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56. Highlights
    to share what we learned.
    

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

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

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

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

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

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62. Various elements
    interact with each other.
    ♻✨
    

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

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64. + in total
    TFTTJPOT
    ➡
    Recent days
    ‑ Early days
    Recent Days: “Collaboration”
    

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65. To be better
    than before
    ✨
    

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66. for better place
    to be COOL!
    
    

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