This is A Public Service Announcement

G’day

I’m
Leonard
twitter.com/lchin

Currently living
in Tokyo

p.s. Not Japanese!

This is An
Invitation...

http://rubykaigi.org/

RubyKaigi2009
July 17th - 19th
Tokyo,Japan

“Kaigi” means
Conference
in Japanese

RubyKaigi
is the largest
Ruby conf.
in Japan

Japan!

Here!

To be more precise…

Tokyo

2008
2007
2006

2009 Akihabara
Imperial Palace
Tokyo St.

RubyKaigi Attendees

RubyKaigi Attendees

RubyKaigi Attendees

RubyKaigi Attendees

RubyKaigi Attendees

RubyKaigi Attendees
?

So,

Why

http://rubykaigi.org/

?

Well…

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

Oh,

and Japan’s also a
nice place to visit too!

What
else?

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:

2006

RubyKaigi2006
! David Heinemeier Hansson

2007

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

2008

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

2009?

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

We Want
You!

But,

What about the language barrier?

No Worries!

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

And,

We all
speak
Ruby

http://rubykaigi.org/

[ANN] with
more details
on ruby-talk
soon

look forward to
meeting w/ you
in RubyKaigi!

RubyKaigi2009
July 17th - 19th
Tokyo,Japan

2009 Akihabara
Imperial Palace
Tokyo St.

Don’t
Forget

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

For More Info…
✓ 2009@rubykaigi.org
✓ www.rubykaigi.org
✓ twitter.com/rubykaigi
✓ [ANN] on ruby-talk