Next Meetup: 30th Sept (Sunday) 1-4pm

Thanks for everyone’s help to decide the date for September’s Open Coffee Osaka.  September’s meeting will be on 30th Sept.  It will be from 1pm to 4pm at the messaliberty offices
９月度の Open Coffee Osaka の日程決定にご協力いただきありがとうございました。９月度のミーティングは９月３０日に messaliberty オフィスにて午後１時から午後４時まで開催します。

 

If you’ve never been to an Open Coffee Osaka the following might be helpful:

  •  Here’s a map and guide to get to messaliberty’s offices.  The closest station is Hankyu Juso station
  •  You can come and leave at any time between 1-4pm
  •  Kids are welcome
  •  We might start with some brief intros, name, what recent interests or projects we are involved in, optionally what we can teach others or what we want to learn
  •  Please share information about other events or groups. You’re welcome to make announcements but it is helpful to prepare handouts/flyers if you do.
  •  There’s no charge to attend or for coffee and snacks

Open Coffee Osaka への参加が初めて方下記をご覧ください：

messaliberty オフィスへの地図とアクセス方法はこちらをご覧ください。最寄駅は阪急十三駅です。

  • 午後１時から午後４時の間、来れる時間に来て何時に帰っても構いません。
  • お子様連れ歓迎いたします。
  • お名前、最近興味を持っている事、行っているプロジェクト、何を教える事が出来るか、何を勉強したいか等の簡単な自己紹介を行う場合もあります。
  • 他のイベントや集まりの紹介をしてください。イベントに関する告知を行う際に、もしあればパンフレットやチラシを持ってきてください。
  • 参加費、コーヒーやスナック類は無料です。

Hope to see you there!

Ian

 

Planning for September’s meeting

Photo by alexanderdrachmann

Hi everyone,

Wow, it’s already September? We had a short break over the summer, with no meetings in July and August.  Are you ready to have another OpenCoffee Osaka?  As usual we need your input on when is the best day for you.  We also would like your help in spreading the word in facebook, so if you could “share” (instead of just liking) this post then hopefully we can let more people know.  Many thanks!
Here are the available dates for September’s meeting:

早くも9月に入ってしまいました。7月、8月と夏の間お休みをしていましたが、9月から再開となります。いつものように、ご希望の日程をコメント欄で教えていただけると助かります。また、Twitter や Facebook でオープンコーヒー大阪について広めていただけると嬉しいです。
開催の候補日は、次のとおりです:

  • 15th (Sat)（土曜日）
  • 16th (Sun)（日曜日）
  • 17th (Mon – Public Holiday)（月曜日 – 祝日）
  • 22nd (Sat)（土曜日）
  • 23rd (Sun)（日曜日）
  • 30th (Sun)（日曜日）

Same place as usual at the messaliberty offices in Juso, time will be between 1-4pm but you are free to come and leave anytime during this period.

会場は、十三のメッサリバティオフィスです。時間は午後1時から4時までですが、入退室はいつでもおきがるにどうぞ。

Next Meetup: 24th June (Sunday) 1-3pm

Hi everyone,

The date for the next meet-up has been set, it will be on the 24th June (Sunday) 1-3pm.  This time it was pretty clear which of the options was the popular choice :)   Hope the forecast is right and it is a nice day, I’ve had enough of the rainy season already :p

次回開催日が決定しました。6月24日（日曜日）の、午後1時から3時までです。寄せられた希望日から、最も多くの方に来ていただける日を選択しました。今月はもういっぱい雨も降ったので、当日は良い天気になることを願っています。

Please bring along your friends if you think they would be interested in meeting a wide range of interesting people from both the Japanese and International communities.  We’re going to incorporate some of the fantastic ideas suggested during the group discussion of May’s meeting.
See you there!

インターナショナルな環境でいろんな人と語り合う事に興味がありそうなお友達がいれば、声を変えていただけると嬉しいです。5月のオープンコーヒーの際に行ったディスカッションの結果を踏まえ、より良いものにしていきますので、お楽しみに！

Ian

Planning for June’s meeting

Photo by alexanderdrachmann

Hi everyone,

Thanks to everyone who came last time, I think there were around 26 members who came to a meeting bubbling with activity and discussions. We had 10 new members attending, I hope they enjoyed the day and will come again.

前回のオープンコーヒーにご参加いただいたみなさま、ありがとうございました。26名の方にご参加いただき、会話も盛り上がりました。はじめて参加されるた10名の方にとっても、楽しい時間であったら嬉しいです。

Speaking of which, it’s that time of the month where we ask you for your preferred date for OpenCoffee.  For June’s meeting, the available dates are:

さて、今回も次回開催の日程を決定する時が来ました。6月の候補日は次のとおりです:

  • 23rd Sat（土）
  • 24th Sun（日）
  • 30th Sat（土）

If any of these suit, please leave a comment below by this Thursday (21st) if possible.  Many thanks!

もしご都合があう日があれば、21日木曜日までにコメントで教えていただけると助かります。いつもありがとうございます！

Next Meet-up: Sunday 27th May 1-3pm

Hi everyone,

Thanks again for everyone’s co-operation in helping pick the best day for May’s meet-up.  It will be held on the 27th May 1-3pm at messaliberty’s offices (same place as usual).  Interesting fact, all 4 possible dates were tied up until the very last moment.

Hope that you can join us, we are going to be trying something different in the second half of the meeting.   If you know someone who is interested in joining please bring them along, and you can send them here (as in http://www.opencoffeeosaka.org) for more info.
See you soon,

Ian

Planning for May’s meeting

Photo by alexanderdrachmann

Hi everyone,

Did you have a great Golden Week?  Mine was pretty quiet but I did manage to watch a movie at the cinema which is one of the reasons why Golden Week is called Golden Week but I’m sure you knew that  :)

ゴールデンウィークはいかがでしたか？私は静かに過ごしましたが、映画館で映画を観てきました。

Same as before, to organise this month’s meeting we would like to ask you which of the below dates is best for you.  Please leave a comment with your preferences by the 17th (Thursday) if possible.  I’ll count up the votes and announce the details though the usual channels of communication (this site, facebook, meetup and the newsletter).  For meetup members reading this, we usually have around 14-20 members attending, even though meetup.com might show lower numbers.

前回同様、今回も開催日について希望日を教えていただけると嬉しいです。もしよろしければ、17日（木曜日）までに、コメント欄に希望日を書き込んでください。後日集計して、こちらのサイトや Facebook、meetup.com、ニュースレター等で開催日をご連絡します。meetup.com 上では少ない人数しか表示されていませんが、いつもは14〜20人のメンバーに参加していただいています。

  • Saturday (土) 19th May
  • Sunday (日) 20th May
  • Saturday (土) 26th May
  • Sunday (日) 27th May

Thanks for your help and we hope see you at OpenCoffee Osaka soon!

ご協力ありがとうございます。オープンコーヒー大阪でお会いできることを楽しみにしています！

Ian

Next Meet-up: Sunday 22nd April 1-3pm

Hi everyone,

Thanks again for everyone’s co-operation in helping pick the best day for April’s meet-up.  It will be held on the 22nd April 1-3pm at messaliberty’s offices (same place as usual).  Sorry that there weren’t that many choices this time round, we’ll try to have a few more for May.  Hope that you can join us.  If you know someone who is interested in joining please bring them along, and you can send them here (as in http://www.opencoffeeosaka.org) for more info.
See you soon,

Ian

Michael Frankland’s Presentation at OpenCoffee Osaka – March

Hey, sorry for the delay in posting this up.  This is the presentation that Michael gave at OpenCoffee Osaka’s March meet-up.  It’s a fantastic presentation on the mobile web, what is mobile-friendly design, what you have to be concerned with and why it is important.  He also goes into lessons he’s learnt in his first month of his new venture motache.  You’ll find his blog, packed with useful information including good and bad (terrible) examples of mobile design at: http://motache.com/blog

I’ve split it up into 2 bits, the first one being the main presentation and the second bit being the Q&A.  I’ll try to post the second part soon. PS. You should be able to view this on your iPhone or Android device in the spirit of Michael’s presentation :)

Planning for April’s Meeting

Photo by alexanderdrachmann

Hi everyone,

As for the past couple of meet-ups we’re going to ask you which dates are the best. Unfortunately due to prior commitments there aren’t as many days we can hold April’s meeting on.  Here are the list of dates, all of them Sundays.

最近開催しているイベントでは、事前に参加者のみなさまに希望日程を聞いています。残念ながら、4月度には候補として挙げられる日は少ないのですが、開催可能な日は下記の通りとなります。

  • Sun (日) 15th
  • Sun (日) 22nd
  • Sun (日) 29th

We know a lot of people will be busy this month, especially with hanamis, so if you can’t make it, we hope to see you next month.  But if you can, it’s going to be a special meet-up so please leave a comment and tell your friends.  If you’ve never been and are wondering what it is like, you can get a quick impression from this post on last month’s meet-up.

新年度のはじまりでもありますので、花見や歓迎会など、今月はみなさまお忙しい月だと思います。もし今月は予定が合わなくても、また来月にお会いできることを楽しみにしています。ご参加いただける方は、ぜひご希望の日程についてコメントで教えてください。また、お友達もご紹介いただけると嬉しいです。はじめての方で、どのようなイベントなのかご不安な方は、先月のレポートをぜひご覧下さい。

March’s Open Coffee Osaka was simply amazing

For the second month in a row, I am not sure where to start, March’s meetup was so amazing on so many levels.  Maybe thank-yous would be the most appropriate starting point.

Thanks to Michael, who delivered a captivating presentation on mobile web, and sharing his experiences of the first month as a start-up and his project Motache.  I loved the time-travelling parts, they brought back memories, luckily he didn’t mention the period of IE4.  I am working on editing the video of his presentation and it will be posted here and also on Michael’s own blog soon.

Thanks also to Yosoda-san who brought some delicious Tansan-senbei, Naho who brought us some chocolate and Bemmu who brought us yummy sudachi manju from Tokushima.  Everything was eagerly devoured.  Andreas promised he will bring along some of his very special olive oil imported from Greece next time :)

In total there were 26 attendees, which is our most ever.  Thanks to everyone who helped spread the word and brought along friends.  I can’t emphasis enough how much the concept of OpenCoffee belongs to, and its success is due to, you the members and not us the organisers.

Special highlights for me this time were meeting Ryan and seeing his amazing concept art, chatting with Bemmu (who also joined our small hackers nijikai afterwards), and hearing about Kansai RISE from Tuukka and Mikako.  We also ran out of cups again (does that count as a highlight? ;)

I took a small time-lapse video that shows the activity of 3 hours compressed down to 25 seconds.  As Guiliano pointed out it is slightly lop-sided.   I’ll try to do better next time!

Five of our members made announcements, and I will post the details to our facebook group and here.  Announcements about events are always welcomed, but please bring some handouts or printed material.  I can help prepare something if you need assistance.

Well that’s my short summary of the meetup from my, if you attended March’s meeting, please leave a comment telling us your highlights of the day. I’m sure it would be helpful to people who haven’t been yet.

And we’ll be asking for comments on the best day for Open Coffee Osaka’s April meet-up soon. Hope to see you there!
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