This Tuesday, the 9th Tokyo2point0 event in Harajuku/Tokyo was held. As always, the venue was totally crowded. More info can be found on the Tokyo2point0 site, the Facebook group or on Mixi. This month the event featured two presentations which left more time for networking. I had the feeling that the event was more fun… Continue reading Tokyo2point0 event: Recruit API and Marketing in virtual worlds
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Users groups, meet-ups, conferences, unconferences, community-disputes, etc.
YAPC::Asia 2008 will be held May 15-16 in Tokyo
YAPC::Asia 2008 (Yet Another Perl Conference) will be held May 15-16 at Tokyo Institute of Technology. YAPC::Asia is one of the biggest technology conference in Japan, and is a bilingual (Japanese/English) conference with many speakers from overseas. Early registration has been started. Usually the seats are sold out soon. Presentation deadline will be Feb. 25th.
RubyKaigi 2008 CFP deadline approaching
RubyKaigi 2008, which will be held June 20-22, at the Tsukuba International Congress Center in Tsukuba Japan, is now open for session proposals. If you want to share your technique, code or passion about Ruby, don’t miss the deadline! Deadline: Feb. 17th (Sunday) JST.
Tokyo2point0: HTML 5, ONGMAP, Web Trendmap v3
On Tuesday, the monthly Tokyo2point0 event in Omotesandou/Tokyo was held for the 8th time. The venue was really packed. Andrew Shuttleworth (the organizer) told me he would love to see more people to RSVP before coming. Also, companies can contact Andrew directly for sponsorship to help the volunteers currently running the event. You can sign… Continue reading Tokyo2point0: HTML 5, ONGMAP, Web Trendmap v3
Major tech conferences in Japan
Here’s the list of the biggest community-based developer’s conferences in Japan. Please leave a comment if I forgot to mention your favorite conference. YAPC::Asia Tokyo YAPC::Asia Tokyo (Yet Another Perl Conference) had been held twice, and was very successful. YAPC officially adopts two languages (Japanese and English), and many speakers attended from different countries. Previously… Continue reading Major tech conferences in Japan
Community: Japan PHP Users Group
Nihon PHP User Kai(Japan PHP Users Group) is a community about PHP, open source script language and environment. It aims to, contribute to the development of PHP further research and share PHP related info promote communication and technical exchange amongst PHP users In order to make PHP more friendly to the Japanese Web Development community,… Continue reading Community: Japan PHP Users Group
Bounen Kaigi 2007 report (2)
The first part of Bounen Kaigi report is here Hosts’ topics Co-hosts talked which net services they are interested in recently, their own project plans for 2008. Sponsor corner From all attendee’s votes for “The Kanji letter of 2007”, Yahoo! Japan guys chose a letter “Warai”(langh, smile). The 4 voters for “Warai” played “Janken” (Rock,… Continue reading Bounen Kaigi 2007 report (2)
Bounen Kaigi 2007 report (1)
The 5th annual year-end conference “Bounen Kaigi 2007” was held at Yahoo! Japan meeting room, Tokyo Midtown, Roppongi, Tokyo. This year’s sponser is Yahoo! Japan. Bounen Kaigi, which name is an original word made from “Bounenkai”(year-forgetting party in Japanese) and “Kaigi”(meeting, conference) started in December 2003, by Gen Taguchi, the owner of the most influent… Continue reading Bounen Kaigi 2007 report (1)
Jun-ichiro “itojun” Hagino dies at 37; IPv6 developer and evangelist
Jun-ichiro “itojun” Hagino who as a core developer of the KAME project which enables IPv6 on BSDs, died Oct. 29th 2007. He was 37 and was living in Tokyo, Japan. He was a hacker. A distinguished hacker. He served as a member of Internet Architecture Board which makes decisions on Internet specifications (RFCs). Itojun was… Continue reading Jun-ichiro “itojun” Hagino dies at 37; IPv6 developer and evangelist