The Drupal Tokyo Group, the newest Drupal group located in Japan is considering holding mini-gatherings at Ikebukuro. Currently Sundays at 13:00 is the candidate time and day but I'd like to hear from you guys if you can attend better if it were weekdays. 今回日本で新しく設立されたDrupalTokyoGroupでミニ集会などを検討しています。日時は現在、日曜１３：００からを検討中ですが、平日の方が気楽に集まれるという方は教えて下さい。
Look what I found !!! This is Hacker's paradise. 凄い店を見つけてしまいました... 。
http://www.sakura-cafe.asia/english/
Food is French served by 3 star restaurant chef. Starting at 500 yen for Lunch.
フランス料理の三ツ星シェフが作る料理、ランチなど５００円からスタート。
60 beer imports, also half-priced. 60ほどの輸入ビール500円前後。
Half of the inside is actually a PC cafe, additionally with wireless access and electrical jacks.
実際お店の中、半分はPCカフェのようになっており（客には無料？だと思います）、無線と電気差込あり。
I stopped by last night and I saw about a dozen European tourists.
昨晩見て来ましたが、客の半分ぐらいヨーロッパからの若い観光客でした。
I'd be here even if there was no Drupal meetup, btw.
Let me know what you guys think! 意見をどうぞ！Drupalの集まりがなくても今後この店に向かおうと思います。
Tokyo Group is a small teams based study group located in Tokyo that was started recently so that Drupalers in Tokyo can casually meet up at a bar or something, or hold quick hacking sessions. If you happen to know other great places please let me know. 東京グループはバーやカフェなどで2-3人からでも、気軽に集まったりするために設立されました。東京で他に最高のカフェをご存知の方は是非教えて下さい。
Best regards,
宜しくお願いします。
Scott
藤川
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I would love to attend the meetings! keep me up-to-date おねがいします。
Do you prefer weekends?
Do you prefer weekends? or weekdays?
Scoped the place out and actually held a brief IT meeting. Found the place a bit pricier than expected, electrical jacks are only available at a standing section, the available PC's are 100yen/15min, never the less has wireless and spaced out public seating area. The food wasn't fabulous, but still around 1000yen(or less) and import beers were 850yen.
Ended up making friends with a couple guys from Spain at random. Good place to meet people.
I'll try this place this
I'll try this place this Saturday for an online meeting (3pm to 7pm) with Drupal folks in Hong Kong. For Tokyo meetups, I can do either weeknights or weekends. At HKDUG we try to organize a monthly meetup on the last Thursday of every month. So we'll need to do at least one week night a month if we want to do remote sessions together.
(BTW, found a house in Nakanobu last Friday & moving this coming Sunday, thanks for all who responded to the other thread and helped!)
Cheers,
-Nick
Saturday
I'll try to make it there this Saturday, and ask some others to join.
FYI, a section close to the cafe in Ikebukuro is turning out to become a small China town, and there are actually talks to start one now. I sincerely wish that a Yamcha place with Chinese pricing would exist.
At Shinjuku NS building, at the top floors if it's still there, there is an excellent Chinese restaurant, and other good restaurants, it'd be a nice place for you to check out.
Anyways, if it works out hope to meet up with you.
Best regards,
Scott
Cool! There are still a lot
Cool! There are still a lot of stuff I need to do like get a keitai, appliances, electric and water service... I could pick your brain before the meeting starts.
Hope to see you tomorrow.
Hey sorry Fuji, looks like I
Hey sorry Fuji, looks like I won't be able to make it. I've having bad stomach ache since last night, if this continues, I might need to go to the hospital!
I'll see u guys next time.
Stress,
Hope you work your health situation out soon.
With regards to electric appliance, this is what I recommend. There are two retail stores that you want to shop at. "Bic Camera" or "Yodobashi"(my first choice Yodobashi, either is fine). Get a members point card right away (make sure you know your home or office address).
You can store your points, or if you buy one expensive appliance, receive points and you can make second purchase like immediately after with those points. Second purchase is guaranteed major discount (like sometimes free) if first purchase is significant. It's quite amazing (works well for tourists) and you can ask how much discount you can get from the first purchase so you can spend as little as possible on the second purchase. What area to shop?, well anyone could tell you Akihabara (for variety, the stores are huge) but if you happen to see a BIC or Yodobashi, any other area (e.g. Shinjuku, Ikebukuro) has similar prices. They also have additional insurance for any major electrical appliance purchases. Anything I'd want at Yodobashi (they also sell other items, sometimes at other buildings), I'd get it at Yodobashi, I wouldn't go anywhere else.
Can anyone add to this?
I wish I could come
I wish I could come Saturday :(
there is a Comiket convention at Tokyo Big Sight
maybe next week/month
Bad sushi?
Sorry to hear about your stomach, cloneof. Feel free to make contact if you're worried about going to the hospital, procedures, etc,...
Fuji and I will be in the area today so drop a line if you're planning on heading to Sakura Cafe.
dklan at ezweb ne jp
will there be a meeting this
will there be a meeting this sunday in ikebukuro? if so I am looking forward :)
OK, this Sunday.
We're aiming for 3-7pm at the Sakura Cafe Ikebukuro, this Sunday.
If anyone wants to join, feel free to come along.
Scott
Sunday the 24th, 3 - 7 pm, Sakura Cafe
I will be there.
Looking forward to meeting you guys. :)
its a 4 hour session? or
its a 4 hour session? or just a guideline for attendance?
Meetup
I think it will be a casual meetup, like a barbecue get together. If we want a session or anything formalized we can discuss it.
Show up when you like.
BBQ!!! よかった. I will
BBQ!!! よかった. I will be there haha.
But 3:00pm-7:00pm is a really wide timeframe, is it ok for me to come at 4:00pm?
I'm here, white polo shirt,
I'm here, white polo shirt, small macbook pro, sitting outside having lunch.
Nice meeting you guys!
Nice meeting you guys!
Lets wait for the announcements for the next Japan Group meetings and get together then too.
Best regards,
Scott
Yeah!! Nice meeting all of
Yeah!! Nice meeting all of you! Really had fun yesterday!
Matt, are you using Flex for your Drupal Flash sites? - http://devzone.zend.com/article/2660
Dave, the above link may be useful for your project.
Yes, it was great meeting
Yes, it was great meeting you all. Definitely a lot of fun. Those wine bottles went pretty fast with hilarious results. hehe :)
Flex is great but it is too expensive and too much of a mental investment for us. The same things can be achieved with AMFPHP module which is a great Drupal module and works on top of the Services module.
The vino was nice up until conversation became incomprehensible
Thanks for the links and suggestions regarding Flex. Sorry, my forums updates get sent to my junk address so I'll have to update that.
Matt, I'm looking forward to seeing your sites a little more in depth and hearing about your progress on becoming a Japanese citizen.