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This is A Public Service Announcement
G’day
I’m Leonardtwitter.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
日本Japan!
Here!
To be more precise…
東京Tokyo
2006
2007
2008
2009
Tokyo St.
Akihabara
Imperial Palace
RubyKaigi Attendees
RubyKaigi Attendees
RubyKaigi Attendees
RubyKaigi Attendees
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RubyKaigi Attendees
?
So,
Why
http://rubykaigi.org/
?
Well…
Testimonials
“Kaigis are Fun.”ー 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.”
ー 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.”
ー 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.”
ー 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
Tokyo St.
Akihabara
Imperial Palace
Don’t Forget
“...the trip wasn’t as harrowing
as I expected.”
ー Chad Fowler
http://chadfowler.com/2008/6/21/ruby-kaigi-2008
✓www.rubykaigi.org
✓twitter.com/rubykaigi
✓[ANN] on ruby-talk
For More Info…