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TEMPLE Model Research
A series that examines each pillar of the TEMPLE model—Theme, Environment, Members, Persistence, Local, and Evolution—distilled from 7 years and 159 events of practice.
The TEMPLE model is a framework for running regional IT talent communities, distilled from 7 years and 159 events by Miyako de IT. Its six dimensions—Theme, Environment, Members, Persistence, Local, and Evolution—are explored in dedicated articles.
Questions explored in this series
The series addresses how to broaden and focus a theme, incorporate Kyoto temples, machiya townhouses, and universities as venues, attract and retain participants, create operational systems that can continue without strain, develop partnerships with government and companies, and evolve a community year by year. Rather than presenting theory alone, it organizes repeatable steps from real relationships such as Butsugen-ji, Taisho University, and the Kyoto Prefecture IT Industry Promotion Working Group.
Who this series is for
The primary readers are people responsible for internal communities at companies, public-sector staff developing IT talent, and organizers who want to start study groups in regional cities. The articles do not rush to universalize the framework; they begin with concrete Kyoto cases and make them easy to translate to another place or organization.
Articles in this series: TEMPLE Model Research (4 articles)
Part 1 / 2026-03-27
Lessons from Running a Regional IT Community: What 159 Kyoto Events and 637 Members Showed About Continuing (2026)
Part 2 / 2026-04-13
Regional Communities Win through Theme Design: Giving Local Context Meaning
Part 3 / 2026-04-13
When a Venue Becomes a Brand: Why We Hold IT Events in Kyoto Temples and Townhouses
Part 4 / 2026-05-07
The TEMPLE Model: Six Perspectives for Designing Internal and Regional Communities
Other series and related pages
- 🏯 Kyoto IT Companies, Engineers, and Researchers — A primary-source guide to Kyoto IT companies, engineers, university research, and technology communities.
- ⛩️ Kyoto IT Study Group Venues — How to choose and run Kyoto IT study-group venues, using temples, machiya townhouses, universities, and public facilities.
- 📚 IT Community Operations in Practice — Repeatable lessons from successful and unsuccessful IT community operations in Kyoto, Japan, and overseas.
- 🗺️ Kyoto IT Engineers: Companies, Salaries, Careers, and Ways of Working — A source-grounded guide to Kyoto IT companies, salaries, career changes, freelance work, and local professional connections.
- About Miyako de IT — The principles and operating philosophy behind these series.
- What grew from Miyako de IT — Collaborations and outcomes that provide the cases explored in these series.