A dozen
international communities will be coming
together in mid December for "Tokyo's
Biggest Tech Party Ever" (info here,
here).
It's a charity event to benefit Room
to Read. About
300 people are expected to gather in
Roppongi, but I bet the number grows higher than that as the date
approaches. I know a pile of
OpenSolaris guys will be going, and I'll go for sure. I can imagine
that thousands of very interesting photographs and videos will emerge
from this gig, so I will shoot a set of photos myself. Here are some of
the communities participating:
- Asiajin
- Digital Eve Japan
- International
Computer
Association
- Tokyo 2.0
- Mobile
Monday
- Tokyo Hacker Space
- Tokyo PC
Users Group
- Tokyo OpenSolaris User Group
- Ninjava
- Tokyo Linux Users Group
The international tech community in Tokyo is obviously a community of communities, and there is certainly some overlap in membership as well. But intentionally creating mega social events like this to bring multiple groups together has significant value because the more we mix as communities the more we learn from each other. To me, that's one of the core values of BarCamp as well. You build your own community locally, you then connect that community globally, and while you are doing that you intentionally mix with other communities so you remain flush with new ideas.
