Tag: Open Source

  • How to run an online CoderDojo sessions

    How to run an online CoderDojo sessions

    We, CoderDojo Owari, have put together the online session guideline in Japanese. It’s released under Creative Commons 4.0 NC-BY license. Please download and translate it.  I will also explain what Google Docs says in this blog post. CoderDojo Japan communities have been helping together to organize online dojos under the difficult circumstances of coronavirus. Over…

  • Wrapping up Mautic Japan Community in 2016

    Wrapping up Mautic Japan Community in 2016

    The year of 2016 was awesome for Mautic Community in Japan. 5 meetup groups have launched in Japan. All of them are actively organizing meetups to spread the word of Mautic. In this blog post, I will briefly introduce Mautic Community of Japan.   First, this is Katz. I am one of the organizers of Mautic Meetup…

  • concrete5 Japan community-base free theme “Stucco” and free add-on “Manual Nav” are now available

    concrete5 Japan community-base free theme “Stucco” and free add-on “Manual Nav” are now available

    concrete5 has very strong community base in Japan. It’s because there are a number of people who believe in open source, and concrete5 Japan was able to organize the strong user base. Recently, concrete5 Japan is trying to bridge the language barrier of marketplace, and succeeded in releasing a free theme, “Stucco” and a free…

  • concrete5 Auto Backup Server Shell Script

    concrete5 Auto Backup Server Shell Script

    I just made this concrete5 auto-backup shell script. This is simple shell script to back up your concrete5.7.x site. This is the script that runs on your server. MIT LICENSE and NO GUARANTEE This script is licensed under The MIT License. USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. Set-up Go to GitHub and download concrete5-backup.sh. Add your…

  • Meet Magento Japan 2015 Report and its challange

    Meet Magento Japan 2015 Report and its challange

    On November 20, 2015, very first Meet Magento was held in Tokyo. Magento market in Japan is still premature, and has a lot of space to grow. Finally the time for Japan to embrace the world’s most dominant ecomemrce platform. Most of the photos were taken by Fumiki Kanno from StyleTune. This is the part of…

  • Multilingual WordPress and Very Important Message from WordCamp Kansai 2015

    Multilingual WordPress and Very Important Message from WordCamp Kansai 2015

    On July 25~26, 2015, I had an opportunity to speak at WordCamp Kansai 2015 to talk about the multilingualization of WordPress. Every year, the team of WordPress Nagoya community members car-pool and attend WordCamp Kansai event. This is our 4th time to do so since 2011. WordCamp Kansai 2015 was taking place at Osaka University,…

  • concrete5 TinyMCE Office Config Sample for 5.6.x and earlier

    concrete5 TinyMCE Office Config Sample for 5.6.x and earlier

    This is the simple copy of concrete5.6.3.2 Office setting of TinyMCE. When you want to customize the buttons of concrete5 TinyMCE editor, you need to create your own config text file. If you feel you’re troublesome, you may want to subtract the options from Office Theme from concrete5. I’ve created this option for you. Git…

  • concrete5: How to grow an open source community in Japan

    concrete5: How to grow an open source community in Japan

    I had an urge to think about the concrete5 community and looking back my past 5 years and next 5 years. Growing concrete5 from scratch in Japan When I started the concrete5 community in Japan. It was virtually the start from the scratch, learning PHP, how to translate the software, and organizing an open source community.…

  • How to run multiple concrete5 installs on a single core (Apache vhost config)

    First, you need VPS or dedicated Apache server that you have root access. Then create symbolic links to point to one core. Sometime, the shared server may let you do so if you have a SSH access. This information is as of May 21, 2014. 1. Create /concrete/ & /updates/ folder where you save your…

  • concrete5 YouTube block customization tips

    This is how-to for concrete5 web masters and developers. YouTube now recommend to use “iFrame” instead of “object” tag. And I also came up with a custom template for playlist which you can easily embed the YouTube playlist onto your concrete5 site. You need the basic knowledge of installing and working with concrete5, and how…