Regional RubyKaigi
KAKUTANI Shintaro; Nihon Ruby-no-kai; Eiwa System Management,Inc.

Hi,

Kakutani Shintaro
✓ RubyKaigi Team(2006-)
✓ Regional RubyKaigi Founder
✓ Some Translation Works
✓ Chief Programmer in Eiwa
System Management, Inc.

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@Book Store Junkudo
RubyKaigi Branch

Thanks in advance

Agenda
1. Authoritative Ruby Events
In Japan
2. What’s Regional RubyKaigi?
3. How to Organize
Regional RubyKaigi
4. Regional RubyKaigi Kaigi

Major Events in U.S.
✓ RubyConf (2001-)
✓ RejectConf (2006-)
✓ Regional RubyConf
(2006?-)

events
.map(&:localize)

Major Events in Japan
✓ RubyKaigi (2006-)
✓ RejectKaigi (2007-)
✓ Regional RubyKaigi
(2008-)

‘Kaigi’
means ‘Conference’
in Japanese

http://rubykaigi.org/

RubyKaigi Attendees
700
?
564
410
251
2006 2007
2008
2009

More Submissions,
More Rejections

RejectKaigi 2008
(2008.06.22)

How’s about organize Regional RubyKaigi?
KAKUTANI Shintaro; Nihon Ruby-no-kai

Regional RubyKaigi
http://regional.rubykaigi.org/

We have 8
Regional RubyKaigi
in 2008

In this presentation,
‘2008’ as 2008 in
RubyKaigi Calendar .
(June 20, 2008 - July 16, 2009)

I’ve been to 7/8
Regional RubyKaigi
in 2008

Regional RubyKaigi
Cities:

Sapporo
Sendai
Matz-e Tochigi
Hiroshima Tokyo
Osaka
Fukuoka

Regional RubyKaigi
Head count:

70
70
60 31
109 200 80
190

In 2008 total,
1450 attendees☺

Regional RubyKaigi
articles on media☺

Rubyist Magazine
(Rubi-ma)
✓ Most authoritative Web-zine
in Ruby community in Japan
✓ Since 2004
✓ Latest release: Vol.26
✓ Featuring Regional RubyKaigi

http://jp.rubyist.net/magazine/

WEB+DB PRESS
Vol.50
✓ Most Aggressive Magazine
for Programmers in Japan
✓ My article w/ Color Page!!
✓ Now available online:
http://gihyo.jp/news/report/2009/07/1501

How to Organize
Regional RubyKaigi

How to organize
1. Join the Mailing List
2. Sign Up Lead Organizer(s)
3. Sign Up Reporter for Rubi-Ma
(a.k.a Rubyist Magazine)
4. Sign Up Accountants
if you.need?

Support Program
By Nihon Ruby-no-kai
✓ Authorization :-)
✓ Grant Speaker travel cost
✓ Operation Know-How
✓ IT infrastructure

Yesterday, we held
Regional
RubyKaigi Kaigi

Next Actions:
✓ Regional RubyKaigi
season #2 including
new cities :)
✓ Report to Rubi-ma

Regional RubyKaigi
http://regional.rubykaigi.org/

“regional” wasn’t going to mean
“provincial”—that regional conferences
could be top-notch events—and that
hope has been fulfilled beyond what we
could possibly have wished for.
D.A.Black

See You Next
Regional RubyKaigi!

Join us!
kakutani@rubykaigi.org