Advertising for the Tokyo, Japan event "RubyKaigi 2009". Performed as 5 minute lightning talk at the November 2008 Sydney Ruby on Rails Meetup. Derived from: http://www.slideshare.net/kakutani/why-dont-you-come-to-rubykaigi2009-presentation Sydney RoR: http://rubyonrails.com.au/2008/8/2/sydney-meetup-august-2008

2. This is A Public Service Announcement

3. G’day

4. I’m
Leonard
twitter.com/lchin

5. Currently living
in Tokyo

6. p.s. Not Japanese!

7. This is An
Invitation...

8. http://rubykaigi.org/

9. RubyKaigi2009
July 17th - 19th
Tokyo,Japan

10. “Kaigi” means
Conference
in Japanese

11. RubyKaigi
is the largest
Ruby conf.
in Japan

12. Japan!

13. Here!

14. To be more precise…

15. Tokyo

16. 2008
2007
2006

17. 2009 Akihabara
Imperial Palace
Tokyo St.

18. RubyKaigi Attendees

19. RubyKaigi Attendees

20. RubyKaigi Attendees

21. RubyKaigi Attendees

22. RubyKaigi Attendees

23. RubyKaigi Attendees
?

24. So,

25. Why

26. http://rubykaigi.org/

27. ?

28. Well…

29. Testimonials

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

31. “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

32. “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

34. Oh,

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

36. What
else?

37. legendary
Japanese
Rubyists:

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

39. non-Japanese
Speakers:

40. 2006

41. RubyKaigi2006
! David Heinemeier Hansson

42. 2007

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

44. 2008

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

46. 2009?

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

48. We Want
You!

49. But,

50. What about the language barrier?

51. No Worries!

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

53. And,

54. We all
speak
Ruby

55. http://rubykaigi.org/

56. [ANN] with
more details
on ruby-talk
soon

57. look forward to
meeting w/ you
in RubyKaigi!

58. RubyKaigi2009
July 17th - 19th
Tokyo,Japan

59. 2009 Akihabara
Imperial Palace
Tokyo St.

60. Don’t
Forget

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

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