Kansai RISE
*UPDATE March 30: THE VENUE CHANGED TO CAFE COLORS: 〒530-0015 大阪市北区中崎町西2丁目* Tuukka Toivonen and Mikako Ichimura visited OpenCoffee Osaka last Sunday where they told us about Kansai RISE. Here’s the info: 昨日はありがとうございました！早速ですが、社会起業・イノベーションに関心を持たれるメンバーに（昨日もアナウンスしたが）知らせがあります。今週の日曜日（４月１日１９時３０分〜２１時３０分）に梅田でアツイ集まりが行われます。実際に起業している方々、研究者やこれから関わりたいいろんな分野のエネリギッシュな人約１０人〜２０人が参加します。目的は情報交換・アクションにつながるネットワーキング・SE分野の関西における強化です。このイベントの仮名は「関西RISE」だが、それはどんな中身にするかは皆さんに日曜日にアイディアを聞かせてもらいます。僕自身のささやかな提案は、RESPOND – INNOVATE – SUSTAIN – ENTERPRISE、です：） 追伸 Kansai RISEのFacebookページ、そしてウェブサイトを一緒に作りたいボランティアを募集しています。是非助けてください〜 IT・social mediaの力を120%借り手これからの集まりやプロジェクトを成功させたいと思います！ Our first “KANSAI RISE” gathering – meant for those interested or involved in social...
Changing Schedule OpenCoffee
The schedule for OpenCoffee is changing! Let us know which dates/days/times would be best for you. Please comment on the official site or Facebook group. The next meetup we would like to do near the end of February! 日本語のページ
Secret Challenge 2
The second edition of Secret Challenge is taking place on January 14. Check out this page for all information. And don’t forget to register for the event on Facebook!* *when not having a Facebook account you can send an email to email hidden; JavaScript is required
TechSpace: Meet, Work and Socialise
TechSpace is a ‘networking while working’ event. It is a place where business owners learn from each other, IT-professionals help each other out, and freelancers find their fun working environment. TechSpace is a place for everyone. Every week we welcome students, designers, artists, freelancers, business people and more. It is fun, informal, and social. Working...
Secret Challenge Vol.2 is Coming Your Way…
The second Secret Challenge is coming up! We can’t tell you what it is (hence the name) but you can watch the video of the last edition to get an impression.
OpenCoffee Osaka | Christmas edition
On December 24th we are having a special Christmas edition of OpenCoffee Osaka. That means extra food, drinks, and fun! In addition, Asami Shinohara is doing a presentation where she will tell us about her experience in leading Web Management teams in developing and running websites for demanding clients.
Branding of Santa
As the Christmas season is approaching the Finnish industrial designer Juho Viitasalo will be presenting about the branding of modern Santa Claus. Have you ever asked yourself ’what is the brand experience of Santa?’. Or ‘How does Santa rank up to other corporate brands’? Than this presentation is a must for you. In addition Juho...
Ruby @ Kansai Workshop Vol. 52
December 3 Ruby/Rails has its 52nd workshop. Since the workshops are aimed at beginner, this edition is particularly useful to people with less experience in writing Ruby. On the planning are a talk about JQuery (30 minutes) and an introduction to Ruby for beginners (90 minutes). During Ruby/Rails a hackathon is taking place in Nipponbashi....
CSS Nite in Osaka Vol.27
Interface design on websites and in applications is an important aspect in the user experience. Unfortunately, often not enough attention is spent on this aspect. Designers and developers should create their applications with the end user in mind. Working in this manner does not only affect the end product but the whole development process Rin...
Designers’ Salon
The 10th Designers´ Salon is organized by JIDA, the Japanese Industrial Designers´ Association which is part of the ICSID.
Kansai Open Source 2011
Since 2002 Kansai Open Source is organized to support the open source community. The event focuses on technology, open source software itself, and companies that provide or use open source software . Kansai Open Sources encourages cooperation between developers and sharing of information.
