Yasuto FURUKAWA

Furukawa is Co-founder and Evangelist at MIERUNE Inc., a geospatial company born from the FOSS4G Hokkaido community. He works at the intersection of community, ecosystem, and real-world implementation, fostering collaboration around open-source geospatial technologies. At MIERUNE, he supports clients through hands-on, co-creative project delivery.

He is also active in promoting open data and OSS adoption through civic tech initiatives. He serves as a Fellow at Code for Japan, a Regional Informatization Advisor (MIC, Japan), a Special Supporter of the MLIT Geospatial Information Lab, and a Visiting Lecturer at Rakuno Gakuen University (RGU).


Session

09-03
14:30
30min
From 6 People Classroom Meetup to 100 people Regional Conference: 16 Years Building an Open FOSS4G Community in Hokkaido
Yasuto FURUKAWA

This session shares the 16-year evolution of FOSS4G Hokkaido, Japan’s first local community. Moving beyond a simple success story, we offer a practical "Survival Toolkit" to overcome organizer burnout and organizational challenges, providing actionable insights to help communities foster Geospatial Sovereignty through long-term resilience.

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