Why Dont You Come To Rubykaigi2009

Why don’t you come to RubyKaigi2009? KAKUTANI Shintaro; Eiwa System Management,Inc.; Nihon Ruby-no-kai

My name is KAKUTANI Shintaro

This is my ﬁrst English Presentation

I’m not good at English

I’m so nervous

I’ll give it a try

I came from Japan

I’m translator pragprog books

I’m one of RubyKaigi organizers

with ko1-san, Takahashi-san

http://rubykaigi.org/

RubyKaigi2009 July 17th - 19th Tokyo,Japan

Do you know RubyKaigi?

“Kaigi” means Conference in Japanese

RubyKaigi is the largest Ruby conf. in Japan

Since 2006

Do you know where Japan is?

RubyKaigi holds in nearby Tokyo

2008 2007 2006

We also have Regional RubyKaigi ☺

Sapporo Sendai Fukuoka Tokyo Osaka

“...the trip wasn’t as harrowing as I expected.” Chad Fowler http://chadfowler.com/2008/6/21/ruby-kaigi-2008

RubyKaigi Attendees

RubyKaigi Attendees ?

Testimonials

“Kaigis are Fun.” Tim Bray http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/06/14/Ruby

“This is one of the warmest and most welcoming conferences I've attended.” Dave Thomas http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/286265

“If you’ve considered coming to Ruby Kaigi and have never been to Japan, I highly recommend it.” Chad Fowler http://chadfowler.com/2008/6/21/ruby-kaigi-2008

legendary Japanese Rubyists:

✓ Matz ✓ Koichi Sasada ✓ Shugo Maeda ✓ Masatoshi SEKI ✓ Minero Aoki ✓ Tanaka Akira ✓ arton ✓ gotoken ✓ Yugui ✓ .. and many ruby-core committers!

non-Japanese Speakers:

RubyKaigi2006 ✓ David Heinemeier Hansson

RubyKaigi2007 ✓ Dave Thomas ✓ Tim Bray ✓ Charles Nutter , Thomas Enebo ✓ John Mettraux ✓ Park Jiin

RubyKaigi2008 ✓ Rich Kilmer ✓ Chad Fowler ✓ Charles Nutter ✓ Evan Phenix ✓ Laurent Sansonetti ✓ Aaron Patterson ✓ Zev Blut ✓ Alex Kane ✓ Michael Fellinger

“Hopefully next year we’ll see the non-Japanese contingent grow and the language barriers blur a little more.” Chad Fowler http://chadfowler.com/2008/6/21/ruby-kaigi-2008

We need more ✓ non-Japanese Speakers ✓ non-Japanese Attendees

RubyKaig2009 ✓ make more i18n ✓ payment w/ PayPal ✓ willing to help arrangements☺

language barrier blur a little more

Aaron posted nokogiri announcement on ruby-list!

aaron++

2009 Akihabara Imperial Palace Tokyo St.

Come Again:

“...the trip wasn’t as harrowing as I expected.” Chad Fowler http://chadfowler.com/2008/6/21/ruby-kaigi-2008

We’ll announce details on ruby-talk by lchin☺

look forward to meeting w/ you in RubyKaigi☺

Thanks! shintaro@kakutani.com

Why Dont You Come To Rubykaigi2009

by Shintaro Kakutani on Nov 06, 2008

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