Project Report:Regional Rubykaigi

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

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

In the Store Now!!! @Book Store Junkudo RubyKaigi Branch

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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

Project Report:Regional Rubykaigi

by Shintaro Kakutani on Jul 18, 2009

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