Opera Playground

We had an Opera users meeting at jp.opera yesterday. Including Opera employees, we could count the people gathered almost 30. That's very enjoyable meeting, talking to each other who only met on the web, on the irc, bbs, this time we meet face to face in a small room. I think it is very important especially in the time of web. Because people sometimes, or often, have to judge/think of others, only from what they have typed into the lines of blog/comments or so. In the case of face to face meetings, we have much more informations, to know what they think.

I put some photographs at Photos of this blog, and some put short small movies on YouTube, the first part of Jon's message over skype movie and the cuttings of Opera cake!, so you can imagine what's going on there.

Yes, Jon himself kindly took time for us, so all of the attendance appreciated very much. It was Saturday morning out there for him, he spared time in front of the camera of skype, for 90 miniutes!

That meetings were taken place at Tokyo office of Opera, started at three thirty in the afternoon, and most of them drink at Japanese bar till late in the evening, almost to midnight, some of them continued to talk and drink till the first trains started to move in the early morning!

[Image of Opera-tan is on the my.opera blog of original drawer, ma31 aka temp_h]

If you'd like to see more pictures, open the page of kuruma-san's Flickr. ... and among them, man with Tux-Opera shirt is me.