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Good morning everyone.

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Good morning everyone.

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I'm Takayuki Miyoshi

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I make plugins.

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Contact Form 7. Some of you uses it, I think.

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I do that kind of things.

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What's topic?

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A project called "WordBench" started recently.

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Let me talk about it.

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I have questions.

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Who came from outside of Tokyo?

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Raise your hands.

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Quite a lot. Half of you.

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Outside of Kanto area?

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A lot.

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about 1/5

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From Kyushu area?

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No one indeed.

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Hokkaido?

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A few.

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So, I was at WordCamp Tokyo November last year

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We talked at the after party.

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Some opportunity like this WordCamp

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where you can communicate with users and developers

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It's fun.

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We thought we could be more active about it.

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If it's as big as this WordCamp,
it's not possible for everyone

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especially if you are in country side.

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You don't get this much people.

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I'm from Fukuoka, I came from Fukuoka today,

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We get together in Fukuoka too.

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But this big thing is difficult.

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We want to actually meet people, not only online.

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It's important.

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It doesn't have to be study group
or very formal ones

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simply a casual party maybe.

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Knowing each other, what they do and so on

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You could work together for example

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We need more of this kind of opportunity.

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That's what we talked
at the last after party.

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Who came to the last WordCamp?

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Raise your hands.

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around 1/5

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It maybe the first time you hear about it.

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Introducing a project named "WordBench"

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What's WordBench?

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Local community
for WordPress users & developers

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For me, Fukuoka.

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Why don't we have our own local ones.

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Let's have a hub where we can make
and share the communities.

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It's just what I'm personaly saying.

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It's not something official.

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I just think that it's good to have it.

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That was what I called for at the last WC afterparty.

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It's been around half a year

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without big annoucements,

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The stats for now is...

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So it's Map of Japan,

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we have 12 areas.

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Okinawa is the most south,

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my home town Fukuoka in Kyushu.

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Kagawa in Shikoku, Okayama, Kobe, Nagoya, Shizuoka, Nagano, Kawasaki, Tokyo, Saitama

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We have those 12.

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If you are from these areas, can you raise your hands?

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We have a few.

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Is it the first time you hear about WordBench?

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You already know about it.

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I want you to bring the groove of WordCamp

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to your local town,

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let's spread smaller local communities
in everywhere in Japan.

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We haven't announced that much so,

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now we have 42 members.

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We want it bigger.

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If interested, from here or from home,

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go to WordBench website and join us.

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The system we used until recently was

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WordPress MU, Multi User

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to be honest some issues didn't work well

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It's been difficult to have people
getting involved

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So we tried this and that,

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Finally we came to BuddyPress.

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There might be more about BuddyPress later but,

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it enables you to create a platform of
social network on top of WordPress

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WordBench looks like this.

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It's Fukuoka group

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and we create this kind of groups.

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We get people in Fukuoka or interested people joins.

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You can message each other in the network.

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You can build relationships with your friends

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Simply, it's a plugin working on WordPress MU.

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Development is going on right now. It's RC1. We use this.

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We installed 1 week ago and we are already here.

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If you want to know what BuddyPress is like, you can join here.

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Who knows BuddyPress?

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Raise your hands.

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Not much.

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It's going to be very interesting. Please join.

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We have a logo too.

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We had a competition and this got the first prize.

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I want to introduce the activities in each locations,

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today we don't have many from each locals,

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only 2 but you'll know what the community is like.

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First, my home town Fukuoka. For now the biggest members of 15.

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Those who live in Fukuoka, and near Fukuoka such as Saga also joins.

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Even those who lives in Tokyo and are from Fukuoka.

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It's local community but not only for local people.

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Feel free to join.

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After half a year, I didn't have enough time to be active to this,

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We haven't done anything specially.

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But on 26th April, there'll be the first study group in Fukuoka.

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At a free café, no charge.

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I often make plugin so

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I will talk easily how to make plugin then.

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It calls attendance at WordBench

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You can register RSVP at WordBench groups.

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She is Yuriko from Kawasaki (pass mic to Yuriko)
次、川崎の百合子さんから（百合子さんに代わる）

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I'm a Yuriko Ikeda, an organizer of WordBench Kawasaki.

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Now we have about 6 members

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We just enjoy the party for the moment.

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We also want to have a meetup someday.

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But for now we just get together about 3 people for drinking.

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We are busy and haven't scheduled it on April.

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We are considering we hold it on late April or May.

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You might see the schedule at WordBench.org

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Thank you. (Pass the mic to Miyoshi)

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12 local groups are registered but I'm sorry here are only 2 groups today.

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When we have WordCamp again,

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since there haven't been groups like in Hokkaido, Tohoku,

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It would be nice if someone had an interest and could join.

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This is the URL of WordBench.

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I'll show it again at somewhere, feel free to go there.

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It might look complicated with English UI but there are no tricky thing to sign up.

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You can join your local group. If you can't find it, I can build it.

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It would be nice if we could make small local network more and more with like that way.

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That's all today.

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Thank you.