Participant Interview: Why yamasaw Keeps Returning to Kyoto's IT Community
Participant Interview: yamasaw
This participant interview explores how yamasaw discovered Miyako de IT, what the events felt like, and why continued participation in a local engineering community has value.
The original interview was published in Japanese on Zenn.
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The figures cited in this article are based on primary data in the Miyako de IT annual statistics report. It publishes yearly event counts, venue distribution, and event-format data.
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