Re: [O] Japanese popularity of orgmode

[Tory S. Anderson]

Thanks for the answer!

Takaaki Ishikawa <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden> 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?  
>>