I gave a presentation at Zope Essentials 7 in Japanese regarding Deliverance, the new flexible theming technology for Plone. Funnily enough, 2 years earlier, I also attended and presented at Zope Essentials 6, so this was as much a resurrection of the event as an opportunity for me to present again to the local Plonistas.
17 attended including myself and following my presentation I fielded a number of questions from the attendees, which was a good indicator of the level of interest in the technology. Following my presentation, Takanori Suzuki gave a lightning talk regarding eggifying an existing Zope 2 product using ZopeSkel and setuptools. In his presentation he used his PloneSlimbox product as an example. After this, Takeshi Yamamoto presented regarding his efforts to translate the eduCommons project into Japanese, and finally Manabu Terada gave a brief talk on accessibility in Japanese Plone-based websites.
A special thanks to Jay Hotta for helping organise the event, to Manabu Terada for MCing, to the JZUG for supporting it, and to ASCII MediaWorks for hosting.