Creating International Communities in Japan Paul McMahon Organizer of Tokyo Rubyist Meetup @pwim

Ruby is a programming language created by Yukihiro Matsumoto

7 of 8 Top Ruby Contributors in Japan Nobuyoshi Nakada Japan Yui Naruse Japan Usaku Nakamura Japan Akira Tanaka Japan Koichi Sasada Japan Eric Hodel USA Motohiro Kosaki Japan Shugo Maeda Japan http://twitpic.com/b5acae

José Valim Poland Jeremy Kemper USA Aaron Patterson USA David Heinemeier Hansson USA Xavier Noria Spain Santiago Pastorino Uruguay Josh Peek USA Josh Leighton UK Top 8 Rails Contributors in 5 Countries http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakescruggs/4933414302/ RubyKaigi2010

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimgris/3012825748/ Tokyo has lots of international devs

Japanese 47% English 53% Tokyo Rubyist Meetup

Lessons Learned From Organizing an International Event

http://www.doorkeeper.jp/ 1. Use Doorkeeper

2. Involve Existing Japanese & International Communities Japanese 49% English 51% First Event

Japanese 50% English 50% Japanese + International Speaker 3. Invite Japanese + International Speaker Japanese 53% English 47% Japanese Speaker Only Japanese 42% English 58% International Speaker Only

4. The location of event greatly influences who participates

Japanese 35% English 65% Party in Yoyogi Park

Japanese 55% English 45% Party at an office

5. Beer from the beginning

Your Turn • Involve existing communities • International + Japanese Speaker • At a conventional location • Beer

International Tokyo Dev Communities • http://startupweekend.jp/ • http://www.mobilemonday.jp/ • http://ninjava.doorkeeper.jp/ • http://www.tokyorails.org/ • http://tlug.jp/ • http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/ • http://www.meetup.com/TokyoiOSMeetup/

Please get in touch! [email protected] @pwim