D-BOF at the OpenSource Conference 2008 Tokyo/Spring

[Bill Baxter]

Yesterday was the first ever D "Birds of a Feather" gathering here in 
Tokyo.  It took place in conjunction with the Tokyo OpenSource 
Conference 2008.

We had 11 short talks from various members of the D Tokyo community over 
the course of two hours.  (One talk, from k.inaba-san, via skype from 
Australia) The room was filled to capacity at about 40 attendees.

The whole proceedings were streamed live via ustream, and will be 
archived somewhere eventually I think.  Presentations will probably be 
posted as well -- probably a link will be posted on the D-BOF page 
listed below.  Of course these won't be much use if you don't speak 
Japanese. :-)

I had a great time meeting some of the folks whose names I've seen 
around here and there, like Kenta Cho of "ABA Games", and I think we had 
a great collection of talks.  Walter even sent us a few words for the 
opening (Thanks, Walter!).

More about the conference here:
http://www.ospn.jp/osc2008-spring/ (Japanese)

More about the D-BOF gathering here:
http://f17.aaa.livedoor.jp/~labamba/?D%B8%C0%B8%ECBOF#english

--bb