User:Yangjeongsoo/sandbox

On September 3rd, 2007 the present administrator of www.kandroid.org, Yang jeongsoo opened ‘mobile today’

community on www.naver.com, which is the largest portal site of Korea. He discussed the problem and solution

of telecommunication business environment through the community.

At that time, he was reviewing webkit technology that was applied to iPhone. While reviewing that technology,

he heard of Google Android and reviewed webkit of Android as well. He found that Android is promising platform,

in that Android aims at open access for telecommunication business environment and open platform

for mobile devices and has technical value of SGL, GUI and Dalvik. Therefore, he decided to try potential value

of Android.

Firstly, he purchased all possible web domains of which names are combinations of Korea and Android.

Of all the domains, www.kandroid.org is the best web domain that represents the community related to Android

in Korea.

Secondly, on March 13, 2008, he held ‘The 1st Korea Android Conference’ in COEX Grand Ballroom, which is the

largest event place of Korea. He informed people of the conference to be held, not by commercial advertisement

but by posting it on his community. Also, he changed the name of his community from ‘Mobile Today’ to

‘2008 Korea Android’.

He couldn’t estimate who and how many people could be coming but around 1,000 people attended the first

technology conference, which was a lot more than he expected. The subjects of the conference were as follows:

l  Google Android and Open Network Issue

l  Open Mobile Platform and Market Issue

l  Android Platform Stack and Porting Guide

l  SUN Java VM and Android Dalvik VM Issue

l  Google Android Kernel Issue

l  Android Developer Challenge and New Business Models

The first conference might be the first formal activity of his community www.kandroid.org. After that, www.kandroid.org

became famous with Number 1 community on Android and positioned itself as a sincere community for developers.

Also his community started projects about education contents of Android for developers and released Kandroid

toolchain on May 30, 2008.

On November 10th, 2008, he held the second technology conference. Although approximately 350 attended the

conference, which was fewer than the first one, the passion and sincerity of attendee were far more. The conference

dealt with the following subjects:

l  Open Mobile Platform and Open Ecosystem

l  Comparison of Google Android and Apple iPhone

l  Android Market and Strategy for Android Developer Challenge II

l  Android Internals and Target Porting

l  Android Open Source and Commercialization Issues

Afterwards his community decided to hold its technology conference semiannually, in spring and fall.

On March 27th, 2009, more hot the 3rd technology conference named ‘Android, Quest For Fire’ was held.

The number of attendee was around 600. The subjects were much deeper as below:

l  Android Insight in Mobile Market Turbulent Mobile Market

l  ARM and Linux Driver Model

l  Linux and Android Start-up

l  Android HAL : Case Study

l  Using Repo(GIT) to maintain Android

l  Android Application Tech. Issue and Business Model

By the time, the number of his community members increased to about 7000. The spirit of inquiry and curiosity of

the members toward Android became hot. Many of the members asked his community for developer education

on Android. Finally, on April 20th, 2009, his community started training for Android application developers,

with the capacity of 30 people. The eighth training will be in progress at the end of September 2009. The total number

of people who got trained reached around 300.

Besides, in March 2009, his community contributed the column ‘The mobile ecosystem which Android makes,

perspective and subject’ by request of Korean software Promotion Agency (KIPA). In August 2009, his community

published the book named ‘Android Basic & Classic, Android Primer’, which is Korean version of

‘the developer guide’ of www.android.com.

As of September 2009, the number of his community members is about 12,000 and his community is preparing

the 4th technology conference coming October.

Progress and evolution is always made by new technology, spirit and people. The community, Kandroid.org emphasizes

or has motos ‘Android, it’s morning again in mobile’ and ‘mobile new world’.

The mobile new continent, again mobile morning is Android. The community, kandroid.org is the most trustful and

remarkable one among the Korean developers who put their flags into the continent.

The passion of the community from the beginning until now is not speed but direction. Its direction could be different

or not from the direction of Google Android. The value which Kandroid.org pursues is to have both neutrality and

professionalism for the developers.

- The history of www.kandroid.org

Year 2007

Sep. 3      : Opened ‘Mobile Today’ community on www.naver.com

Dec. 15    : Changed the name from ‘Mobile Today’ to ‘2008 Korea Android’

Dec. 20    : Set up community for Android Developer

Year 2008

Mar. 13    : Held 1st Korea Android Conference (in COEX, Grand Ballroom,

the number of attendee: about 1,000)

http://www.kandroid.org/s1/

Mar. 20    : Opened www.kandroid.org site

Mar. 21    : Closed “2008 Korea Android” community on www.naver.com

May 19    : Started Android Educational Content Development

May 30    : Released Kandroid Toolchain Public Version

Nov. 10    : Held 2nd Korea Android Conference (Korea Christian 100 anniversary memorial)

http://www.kandroid.org/s4/

Year 2009

Mar. 27    : Held 3rd Korea Android Conference (in Korean scientific technology hall)

http://www.kandroid.org/s6/

Apr. 20     : Started training for Android App. Developer (1st ~ 8th)

http://www.kandroid.org/app/all-reg-list.php

Sep. 20    : Published the book ‘Android Basic & Classic, Android Primer’

Korea version of Android Dev. Guide of www.android.com

Oct. 22     : Held 4th Korea Android Conference (in Korean scientific technology hall)

~23                       http://www.kandroid.org/s7/

- The number of members: About 14,000 people (as of November 2009)

- The number of major operational staffs: About total 10 people

- Developer ratio : it is difficult to estimate but most of the members are developers