Monthly Archives: October 2013

San Francisco

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This week I was on a business trip to our office in San Mateo. A busy week with many meetings. One of them with a colleague at a sister SONY division.

I arrived at the San Francisco airport on the 20th and had a plan to take the BART to downtown San Francisco. However, BART was on strike so I had to revise my plan. I got on a Super Shuttle instead and it dropped me off at Union Square. It was a wonderful day with blue sky. I enjoyed it walking around doing some window shopping… Well, I did some real shopping too. At the Icebreaker shop. Stocking up for the winter.


Tram in San Francisco

In the afternoon it was time to return to the airport to join my colleague from Lund, he was arriving late in the afternoon. So I got on a bus back to the airport. It took about 25 minutes longer than what was mentioned on the schedule and I got about 5 minutes late to the planned meeting time at the SFO rental car station.

The rest of the week was filled with meetings, American food and sleeping. Had a plan to go to the gym but never made it. Too tired. After a week in the US it is really nice to return to Tokyo, even though the flight was long. Once I got home Chie had prepared a Japanese dinner, which I enjoyed very much!

Hitting a Toe

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While walking Coco today I hit my toe on a pacing stone. Ouch!

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The only positive about it was that it was warm enough to walk in flip-flops 🙂

Reaching for the Sky

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It was a lovely weather today too. Just below 30 degrees, is my guess, and dry. A great day for a, or two, walk with Coco.


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Community Manager Workshops

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This week has been quite busy so far. It started off with a workshop on Community Management on Monday and Tuesday. The workshops were the completion of an idea I got 1.5 years ago while attending an Open Source Think Tank in Napa Valley. At that time I met Jono Bacon, the Community Manager for Ubuntu and got the idea that he could come and have a talk with us about what it means to be a Community Manager.

One and a half years later he’s been here and had the talk, and it was better than anticipated 🙂

For anyone that wonders what community managers do, you can have a look at Jono’s book that is available for free here. It’s available under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

Wednesday was also dedicated to Jono’s visit. We had a round table discussion on what community management could mean to SONY. After the round table discussion we headed directly to Keio University so Jono could talk for a group of students there. I joined because I wanted to show Sony Mobile’s openness and support for open source.


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After the talk at the Keio University we had a quick dinner with some of the students before we sent Jono to the airport for his flight back to California.