FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Haiku at Kansai Open Source Conference 2007

["Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howdy,

For those interested in seeing what the Kansai Open Source conference 
and our Haiku booth will look like at this event, I will be attempting a 
short live webcast from Osaka this coming Saturday, Nov. 10. You are all 
welcome to join us. Find all the details here:
http://myhaiku.org/interactive-tv/

Please note that my ability to do the webcast will depend on the 
networking available on site, and there is a chance that it may not 
happen. In that case, I will send out a short email to this list and 
post information on my blog to that effect the day before.
Cheers,

Koki

Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki) wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I am making a (business & pleasure) trip to Japan in Nov., and since 
> the timing coincides with the upcoming Kansai Open Source Conference 
> (Nov. 9 & 10 in Osaka, Japan), I am organizing a presence for Haiku at 
> the event.
> So far I have made arrangements for a Haiku booth, so that Haiku can 
> be demoed on the exhibit floor, and for a track session, for a general 
> Haiku presentation. I will also apply for an "on stage presentation" 
> to do a short 10 minute demo of Haiku.
> I have additionally hooked up with a freelance writer to do an 
> interview in case any (prominent?) Haiku developer(s) come to the 
> event (potential publications for this interview are Software Design 
> magazine, UNIX USER magazine or MYCOM Journal).
> I have already invited the JPBE.net folks and several Haiku devs to 
> join me in this event, and I wanted to extend this invitation to all 
> the Haiku devs as well enthusiasts out there who may want to be part 
> of this initiative (no, I am not paying for any of your expenses :P ). 
> Anybody interested, feel free to reply here on the list.
> Since a Haiku admin recently wrote on this list that a "request (for 
> funds) can very well come from an outside source like a mailing list" 
> (www.freelists.org/archives/openbeos/08-2007/msg00121.html), I also 
> take the liberty to ask Haiku Inc. and/or the admin team to consider 
> subsidizing at least part of the travel expenses should any Haiku 
> dev(s) come(s) forward and decide(s) to take fly to Osaka.
> Kansai Open Source is held once a year in Osaka, and it draws a crowd 
> of approximately 1.5K people. The event has booths for both businesses 
> and volunteer projects, session tracks, on-stage presentations, and 
> BoFs. I have done the conference once in 2005 with Bruno/BGA and 
> several JPBE.net folks), and it was a lot of fun. We had a booth, 
> Bruno gave an OpenBFS presentation (attendance was about 20 people), 
> and I gave a ZETA demo on stage. You can see few pictures and links to 
> videos here:
> http://www.jpbe.net/news/archives/2004/10/000769.html
>
> You can see a few pics from last year's conference here:
>
> http://bluequartz.org/event/kof2006/index.html
> http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20061120/254228/?ST=oss&P=2
>
> If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Koki