We’re at Ruby Kaigi 2008 and having a great time. Yesterday Rich and I did a panel discussion with Masayoshi Takahashi and Matz on the history of Ruby communities and business outside of Japan.
Today the main conference starts with presentations by Koichi, Charlie, and Evan on YARV, JRuby, and Rubinius respectively. It’s shaping up to be an excellent conference. More later.
The one thing that strikes me so far is that it’s much easier to get here and participate than I thought it would be. If you’ve considered coming to Ruby Kaigi and have never been to Japan, I highly recommend it. Tokyo is easy to get around even without speaking Japanese and the trip wasn’t as harrowing as I expected. Hopefully next year we’ll see the non-Japanese contingent grow and the language barriers blur a little more.
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June 24th, 2008 at 05:37 AM
Thank you for your attending and talking on RubyKaigi! I’m very glad to see you and other RubyConf guys in Japan :)
Your talk in RubyKaigi is enlighting for Japanese Rubyists. As many foreign people don’t know Ruby before Rails, many Japanese people don’t know Ruby in other country before Rails so much. In addition, activities of RubyCentral are helpful for Japanese Ruby organizations, like Ruby Association and Nihon-Ruby-no-Kai in future.
I guess we should make an effort to deliver products and activities in Japan to people outside of Japan more. RubyKaigi need more i18n and m17n patches :)
See you next RubyConf and RubyKaigi!