Japanese RubyistsYou have not

met yet

Masayoshi TakahashiNihon Ruby-no-kai (Japan Ruby Group)

Twinspark Co. Ltd.

Japan

ManyRubyistsin Japan

MatzKo1nobuakrseki...

Knownonly inJapan

introduce2 Rubyists

the 1stRubyist

Yugui

@yugui (twitter)

the ReleaseManager

of Ruby 1.9

Yugui’s movie

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4368109

Yugui’s works

wrote“Learning RubyJapanese Ed.”

Not likeEnglish Ed.

Ruby 1.9Ready

trustworthymanager

the 2ndRubyist

Itojun

Jun-ichiro“itojun”Hagino

“IPv6 Samurai”

KAMEproject

to providea free stack of IPv6

for BSDs(including Mac OS X)

the memberof the IAB

(2003-2007)

Itojun’sContribution

to Ruby

the 2ndcontribution

IPv6 protocolstack for Ruby

the 1stcontribution

1994/12

(closed) alpharelease of Rubybefore in public

Itojun offeredML and FTP

to Matz

“Ruby is one of the softwaresthat cannot be developed

without itojun.” (Matz’s diary 2007/10/31)

bad news

You nevermeet him,

like Guy Decoux

He passed away onOctober 29, 2007

Itojun’s last movie

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Y-Sl7hIqg

He is the one ofthe most famoushackers in Japan

He is the one ofthe most famous

free softwareevangelists

in Japan

Conclusion

Many Rubyistsin the world

Some Rubyistsyou’ve not met

not bad news,I guess

We can developRuby with

unseen people

You canmeet Yugui

throughRuby 1.9

You canmeet Itojun

throughIPv6-Ruby

great featureof free software

we love Rubyand Rubyists

all over the worldthrough Ruby

Thank you.