Japanese popularity of orgmode

Japanese popularity of orgmode

[Tory S. Anderson]

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?  

Re: Japanese popularity of orgmode

[Takaaki Ishikawa]

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?  
> 

Re: Japanese popularity of orgmode

[Rasmus]

Takaaki Ishikawa <takaxp@ieee.org> writes:

>  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.

That's pretty cool.  Thanks for sharing.

—Rasmus

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This is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put

Re: Japanese popularity of orgmode

[Tory S. Anderson]

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?  
>> 

Re: Japanese popularity of orgmode

[Waldemar Quevedo]

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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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Re: Japanese popularity of orgmode

[Christian Wittern]

Here is another academic org user in Japan.  I started writing articles a
few years ago and am also using it for doing research etc.  I live in Kyoto,
so please drop me a line if something goes on here!!  Christian

On 2015-01-28 09:54, Waldemar Quevedo wrote:
> 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
> <mailto:torys.anderson@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Thanks for the answer!
> 
>     Takaaki Ishikawa <takaxp@ieee.org <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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?
>     >>
> 
> 


-- 
Christian Wittern, Kyoto

Re: Japanese popularity of orgmode

[heroxbd]

Hey Tory,

torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:

> 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?

Well, just my 2 cents.  I attended a Japanese university and wrote my
PhD thesis in org-mode.

Cheers,
Benda

Re: Japanese popularity of orgmode

[Tory S. Anderson]

That's amazing! As others here have mentioned, it would be interesting and instructive to see a sample of the configuration & org markup that made something like that possible. In any case, I guess it makes sense to see more about orgmode if it was replacing LaTeX and Word as front-ends in demanding, peer-reviewed situations.  

heroxbd@gentoo.org writes:

> Hey Tory,
>
> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> Well, just my 2 cents.  I attended a Japanese university and wrote my
> PhD thesis in org-mode.
>
> Cheers,
> Benda