AnkiDroid presentation in Roppongi Hills

On Thursday I will give a presentation about AnkiDroid, in Japanese!

Place: Roppongi Hills, Mori Tower 2F, Hills Space

Time: 19:00~22:00, 2011 October 13th

Admission: 1000 JPY with one drink.

Other people will present various other creative projects, should be a lot of fun!

In the morning of the same day, I will be at the eDocumentJapan conference as a Japanese/English interpreter for IT pioneer John Newton.

AnkiDroid one of "The 100 best Android apps"!

AnkiDroid has been growing a lot recently: the number of users has quadrupled in the last 6 months!

With now 75.000 installs, AnkiDroid has just been selected by makeuseof.com as one of The 100 Best Android Apps!
Congratulations to all of the team!

I will soon release AnkiDroid 0.8 with a lot of bug fixes, and a version with a totally re-engineered database and a much more efficient SRS algorithm should be out before the end of the year.

Applying Business Intelligence to Bug Tracking

Last week I released AnkiDroid 0.5.1, and judging by the Android Market's comments, people seem to love it :-)

Since a few releases already, an opt-in feedback mechanism sends us a report everytime a problem happens. The anonymous reports are automatically scanned by a Google App Engine application to determine whether it is a new bug or just an additional occurrence of an already known bug. The data can be exploited in two ways:

1) An online application allows one to browse the reports and bugs, see which bugs happen the most often for a given version, and associate them with issues in the bug tracker.

2) A set of Business Intelligence tools allows one to drill-down reports in a multidimensional OLAP cube, and generate reports to show any interesting findings. As a quick example, here is the distribution of crashes among Android versions. Those tools use the open source Pentaho Business Intelligence suite.

Video of my AnkiDroid presentation at Roppongi Hills

Here is a video of my recent speech in Roppongi Hills about AnkiDroid. About 200 people attended, including a Japanese company who is considering reusing the code as a part of their educational offering. I licensed the slides under a Creative-Commons-Share-Alike license, so feel free to reuse or modify them and speak about AnkiDroid at other events!

Presentation about AnkiDroid in Roppongi Hills

I will give a presentation at Hills Breakfast on Friday 10/22, 7h45, in Mori Tower, just at the left of the Goldman Sachs entrance.
I will be speaking about AnkiDroid and Open Source in general.

Last month's presenters were the Director of the Mori Art Museum and two Google managers.
My friend Yuko Mizutani of Mori Building Co. is organizing the event and invited me to give a talk. I first thought I would talk about ECM, but she figured out it would sound too much like an advertisement for my company, so I will be advertising Open Source instead!