Cheers, Hujs was awesome. Hoping jingjs is even better.
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Troy Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi NodeJS List! > > You may have heard about 沪JS (HuJS), a JavaScript conference in Shanghai > from last year that I helped to organize. This year, the same team of folks > is doing it again, in Beijing, and it's called 京JS (JingJS). > > Our CFP is now open and we'd love to hear from you! > > You can find more information on our website: http://jingjs.org > > Let me talk a little bit about the concept for these conferences: > > JavaScript, and Node.js, has a large international community. We have > folks from every country sharing, learning and collaborating with one > another using a common language of JavaScript. However, this is mostly > facilitated due to another shared language: English (as well as a somewhat > common cultural basis). > > Somehow, China has managed to have only a very small voice in this > international dialogue. It's not because there aren't tons of awesome > developers who care about JavaScript and Node living in China. In my > opinion, it's a simple lack of interaction, mostly due to spoken language > barriers and cultural differences. In fact, this problem is not unique to > the JavaScript community, but effects the entire open source community > across many technologies. > > Last year, HuJS was an experiment: Could we bring together the Chinese and > international open source communities? Could we showcase China's vibrant > developer community and help China have a stronger voice in that > international dialogue? > > Substack, Tim Caswell, Charlie Robbins, Sara Chipps, Steve Sanderson, > Glenn Block, myself and a host of others took a chance, and found out that > all it takes is a common passion and the opportunity to be in the same > place, at the same time, to bring those barriers down. We also found out > that there were some amazing Node.js developers hiding within those > inscrutable 汉字(chinese characters). One of them, Charlie Circle (谢骋超), is > speaking at LXJS this year, which is awesome. > > We'd love for people from all over the globe to join us in Beijing this > year, and get to know our Chinese colleagues, and share our knowledge, > passions and unique perspectives. Our international speakers last year were > mostly folks from the USA. This year, we'd like to see a stronger > representation from other areas, like Europe, South America, Africa, > Japan, Korea, Ukraine, India, etc. > > If you live both outside the US and outside of China, and would like to be > part of this, please submit a proposal via the website (or GitHub), or just > contact me. We are eager for you to join us. > > We'd also like to see more folks in the audience from outside of China. > Last year, much to our surprise, Jason Denizac and Domenic Denicola from > the US and Lee Hyung Geun from Korea, made it to the conference, on their > own. That was only three out of 300. We'd like to see more than three > international attendees this year. To that end, we'll be announcing some > special incentives to make it easier to attend. If you don't think you want > to speak, but would like to attend, contact me and we'll figure out how to > help you do that. > > If you want to find out more about HuJS from last year, the website is: > http://hujs.org > > We'll have all the videos up soon (hopefully). > > Thanks, > Troy > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
