Joint Meetup with Japan's Ruby Business Commons

Date: Tuesday, September 16, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Carnegie Mellon University, Bldg 23 Moffet Field
Mountain View, CA 94040
Cost: Free

Join us for an informal discussion session with 20 members of Ruby Business Commons, one of the largest Ruby SIGs in Japan.

The group will be visiting Silicon Valley from Fukuoka, Japan in mid-September. This is a great chance to learn about:

- the latest Japanese trends in Ruby and Ruby on Rails
- innovative products/business models created with Ruby and JRuby

There will be a presentation by Ms. Chisako Katayama, EC One Inc. Chisako has many years of experience programming in Java. Now she maneges Ruby on Rails PJ and take charge of marketing also
one of RBC-member since establishment time. She is a coauther of "JRuby", which is a Japanese book but the only one book for giving an explanation for the JRuby to beginners.

Additional Networking Opportunity: The Ruby Business Commons group from Japan will also be hosting a networking event (Free Sushi) at the Plug and Play Technology Center in Sunnyvale on Monday night, September 15. Email [masked] for an invitation.

About Ruby Business Commons:

Ruby Business Commons (RBC) is one of the largest Ruby communities in Japan for engineers, businesspeople, and end users who are interested in the Ruby language and who want to share their knowledge and experience with like-minded people.

RBC members are especially interested in exploring Ruby and its association with other languages such as Java to improve the capabilities of the Ruby language and support the productivity of its members. Ruby Business Commons was founded in 2007 with 544 members. Membership is open to Ruby fans worldwide.

Refreshments:

Pizza and soda sponsored by Ruby Business Commons.

Directions:

Google Maps to the location

Please bring a valid ID or driver's license to get though the security gate. As soon as you go through the security gate you can make a right (you will see a church on the right) and enter the parking lot on the left side. The meetup is inside the building.