Re: Japanese popularity of orgmode

[Waldemar Quevedo <waldemar.quevedo@gmail.com>]

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Ishikawa-san

> I know a super student. He wrote his thesis using Emacs with org-mode!
Sounds interesting, by any chance is it on Github or somewhere publicly
available?

By the way I live in Tokyo, would be great to attend one of these Emacs+Org
mode meetups in Kyoto or Tokyo! Japanese no problem ;)

Cheers,

- Waldemar


On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Tory S. Anderson <torys.anderson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the answer!
>
> Takaaki Ishikawa <takaxp@ieee.org> writes:
>
> > Dear Tory,
> >
> > Good point. I don’t know “taking off” is the correct word, but as you
> mentioned, it’s still growing. I can see several reasons why you think
> Japanese content has been increasing in the Web. First, some students use
> Emacs in their university because their teacher also uses Emacs. Then, the
> students use Emacs to write papers for graduation. I know a super student.
> He wrote his thesis using Emacs with org-mode! After graduation, they will
> be programmers, engineers, and researchers with high-level technical skills
> enough to distribute their knowledge through their blog and twitter.
> Second, We have several workshops related to Emacs and org-mode. At least,
> two workshops are held a few times a year at Kyoto and Tokyo. The
> participants of the workshops write blog entries and release some
> emacs-lisp actively. An Emacs advent calendar is a good example. Finally,
> we have many Japanese translated materials, manual, tutorial, org-web, and
> twitter bot, to know org-mode quickly and easily. And of course, the
> primary reason is that org-mode is very useful tool to do anything with
> Emacs :-)
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Takaaki Ishikawa
> >
> >
> >> Jan 27, 2015 11:16 PM、Tory S. Anderson <torys.anderson@gmail.com> のメール：
> >>
> >> There seems to be (and has been for a while) a growing Japanese
> presence online with orgmode materials, documentation, addons, etc. Most
> recenlty I found this blog: http://paper.li/highfrontier/1300501273 . I
> had also noticed many of the page titles on the orgmode website/wiki had
> Japanese content. This has me curious. Does anyone know the story of what's
> causing it to take off in Japan, or whether "taking off" is even the right
> word? Is it just a few people or a department at a university that are
> using it?
> >>
>
>

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