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2008年07月26日

Codereposcon1 and other mini-conferences in Japan

Most Perl Monger groups have meetings; some only drink; others have tech talks and then drink. But mostly the tech talks don't have a theme - anyone who wants to talk about anything remotely Perl-related can do so. Shibuya.pm has these kinds of tech talk meetings as well, twice a year, and I'm told they attract an audience of more than a hundred people.

But the japanese Perl (and Ruby and JavaScript etc.) hackers also have other kinds of meetings. They could be called themed mini-conferences, taking place only during one evening. The talks there are short, about ten minutes each, and focus on the evening's topic. So far there have been several such mini-conferences: plaggercon, catalystcon, soozycon (five, various topics), xsnite and now codereposcon1.

About a dozen japanese open source hackers met in an apartment; they had their laptops (lots of MacBooks) and a beamer. The talks were obviously about CodeRepos, the vast svn repository for all things open source in Japan.

But the world knows about it because Mizoguchi Coji (coji) records the talks, both slides and speakers, using picture-in-picture, and streams them on Ustream. Later during the evening and night he uploads the videos to Nico Nico Douga. The videos belonging to one such gathering are grouped together on a page on techtalk.jp, like on this one for codereposcon.

There are also loads of pictures from the evening on flickr, tagged with "codereposcon1". Some speakers keep their talk slides on CodeRepos as well.

If you need to register an account on Nico Nico Douga, then Google can point you to several pages that tell you how to do it.

Tags: Asia, conferences.