Codefest 2005 (and debconf)

I'm attending Codefest Japan 2005, and nice to meet some Debian people; Fumitoshi Ukai, Mutsumi Ishikawa, Junichi Uekawa, Takatsugu Nokubi, Masayuki Hatta, Taku Yasui, Tatsuki Sugiura, Yutaka Niibe, YAN Zheng, and Osamu Aoki. Other attendee are also hackers, such as Ruby hacker Akira Tanaka and IIIMF hackers Hiura.
My hack target in this event is im-switch. I discussed with Osamu, YAN, and Yi. Finally I did ITP im-switch as #311859, and sent proposal to debian-devel mailing list. I've already sample implementation for some input methods; kinput2, skkinput, atokx2, and uim. YAN is writing for scim at now. Next of next stable Etch will provide easy configuration for input method.

During codefest, we talked about possibility of Debconf in Japan. Well, COST is a only and big problem. To provide standard service for DDs as same as other debconf, minimum limit is $100000... And in my view $150000 will be needed. Heh... It's very hard to collect this big money from sponsors in Japan. Hmm. $30000~$40000 is max quantity we can do?