I gave a presentation (opens new window) at Zope Essentials 7 (opens new window) in Japanese regarding Deliverance (opens new window), the new flexible theming technology for Plone (opens new window). 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 (opens new window) gave a lightning talk regarding eggifying an existing Zope 2 product using ZopeSkel (opens new window) and setuptools (opens new window). In his presentation he used his PloneSlimbox (opens new window) product as an example. After this, Takeshi Yamamoto (opens new window) presented regarding his efforts to translate the eduCommons (opens new window) project into Japanese, and finally Manabu Terada gave a brief talk on accessibility in Japanese Plone-based websites. A special thanks to Jay Hotta (opens new window) for helping organise the event, to Manabu Terada (opens new window) for MCing, to the JZUG (opens new window) for supporting it, and to ASCII MediaWorks (opens new window) for hosting.