MongoDB Master Takahiro Inoue Honored by the Japan OSS Promotion Forum for MongoDB Contributions
Takahiro Inoue
, Chief Data Scientist at
Treasure Data, Inc
, and
MongoDB Master
was one of the five individuals to receive the
Japan OSS (Open Source Software) Promotion Forum’s Honorable Mention Award
. This award is given to up and coming open source enthusiasts who have made substantial contributions to open source software. Taka’s co-recipients includes Yusuke Yamamoto, creator of
Twitter4J
, a popular Java library for Twitter API, and Shota Fukumori the youngest committer of the Ruby programming language at only 15 years old.
Taka was recognized for his contributions to the MongoDB community. He has been instrumental in spreading MongoDB to the Japanese Developer community, as the founder of
MongoDB JP
, MongoDB’s user group in Japan, which has grown to 700 members on less than two years. He was also the major architect behind translating MongoDB’s documentation into Japanese, increasing MongoDB accessibility to the Japanese Developer community. He was also the co-organizer of the inaugural
MongoDB Conference in Japan
in 2011.
We congratulate Takahiro on this award and thank him for all the work he’s done to evangelize MongoDB in Japan.
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September 14, 2012
