More details will be published soon on the official website:
https://vimconf.org/2025

Differences Between traditional VimConf and this VimConf 2025 Small

Feature	(traditional) VimConf	VimConf 2025 Small
Conference Scope	International	Japan Local
Language	Primarily English	Primarily Japanese
Interpretation	Simultaneous ENJA translation	Not provided
Lunch & Coffee	Free gourmet lunch and coffee breaks	Not provided
Pamphlet	Printed conference pamphlet	Not provided
Speaker Travel Support	Travel expenses partially covered	Not provided
Ticket Price	Regular	Significantly reduced (TBD)

Background

This year, we set a condition for holding the conference:
VimConf 2025 would only be held if the total sponsorship commitments reached our target amount.

The announcement was delayed as we took time to assess the financial outlook and sustainability of the event.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the individuals and organizations who supported or considered supporting us.

Our evaluation revealed that holding VimConf in the same format as previous years would not be sustainable in the long term.

Therefore, we have decided to streamline the event—similar to VimConf 2023 tiny—and hold it as VimConf 2025 Small, scaling back certain aspects of the traditional VimConf format to ensure its future continuity.

Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to seeing you in Akihabara.

We are beginning to sell the tickets for VimConf 2024, which will be 2024-11-23 (Sat) JST.

You can buy it at the following Peatix page:
https://vimconf-2024-ticket.peatix.com

We also call for individual sponsors:
https://vimconf2024-individual-sponsor.peatix.com
Your support helps to keep VimConf.

It seems that the third-party ticket sales site Peatix has introduced a mechanism that restricts access to users residing in the US. According to Peatix, US residents can bypass this issue by taking either of the following actions:

• Change your country of residence at peatix account profile page to one other than the US (Official information)
• Change your browser’s user-agent to empty

We also call for 6 Lightning Talks (LT) for up to 5 minutes.
LT application form
CAUTION: You must have a ticket to have an LT session.

You can review photos, videos, and slides from the past VimConf on VimConf official website.
You may get insight.

We are waiting for your join, support, and LT proposal!

Now we opened Call for proposal form.

• Deadline
  • 2024-08-31 23:59:59.999999 JST
• Notification of the acceptance
  • 2024-09-20 23:59:59.999999 JST
• We will invite you to vim-jp Slack when accepted.
  • We can also contact you by email.
• Presentation time
  • 15min, 20min, or 30min
• Language
  • The primary language for your slides has to be English
    • It does not mean you can’t write any Vim script in your slides
  • You can choose speech language either English or Japanese
    • We prepare real-time translation English -> Japanese and Japanese -> English.
  • We will review your slides.
    • We mainly review for copyright and CoC violations.
  • We can support presentation practice at online
• Speaker benefits
  • You get one ticket for free.
  • We will support you with travel expenses.

We are looking forward to you showing how your Vim is amazing in your words.

We are welcome if you don’t have session experience.
We share two proposals from past speakers.

• Alisue’s proposal accepted at VimConf 2018
• mopp’s proposal accepted at VimConf 2019

You can review photos, videos, and slides from the past VimConf on VimConf official website.
You may get insight.

We are waiting for your proposal.

Last year we took place VimConf for the first time after 4 years, and it was named VimConf 2023 Tiny.
It was a tiny build and then we reduced the talks and the number of attendees.
But it’s a normal build this year. You will enjoy Vim from morning to night (morning sessions + afternoon sessions + after party)

Please check VimConf 2024 official website for more details.
We will update it.

We are looking forward to meeting you at VimConf 2024!

• Many people really enjoyed VimConf 2019 this year
• No specific plan for the next VimConf (2020? 2021?) yet
• The Vim ecosystems keep growing
• Slides, videos, photos, and links to everyone’s blog posts here

What was VimConf 2019?

VimConf 2019 was at Akiba Hall in Akiba Plaza, Tokyo, Japan, on 2019-11-03. https://vimconf.org/2019

We had 2 keynotes — Prabir Shrestha “Vim Renaissance” and Justin M. Keyes “We can have nice things.”

We observed that it indirectly even inspired to send a proposal to add support for ECMAscript interface for Vim, with discussion including both of the keynote speakers.

At #vimconf I mentioned that the next revolution will be when we have ECMAScript and WebAssembly and that is now. Just sent a PR to vim to support ECMAScript. https://t.co/N4gAniVyVo— Prabir Shrestha (@PrabirShrestha) November 9, 2019

Great thanks also to the VimConf staff. This year it was led mainly by aomoriringo, mopp, and guyon. 9 Core staff including me (ujihisa) plus 2 staff helped us on the VimConf day worked very hard from major decision makings to minor but millions of small tasks. It was not easy at all.

This year we VimConf didn’t only serve the sessions, lunch bento, and dinner, but also a novelty “Vim Spoon.” In case when you need to use a spoon with Vim logo to eat ice creams, that spoon will be very helpful.

Useful links

Everything should be linked from https://vimconf.org/2019/, but here let’s also list important things.

• Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/87ka3nm7PK3nxBdR7
• Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx8bw5NQypskQlEGupVqoUBBJtRmNXLet
• Slides: https://vimconf.org/2019/#menu-time-table
• Blog posts from attendees/speakers: https://vimconf.org/2019/blogs/

NOTE: Please do not forget to purchase the ticket!

We will open a form for lightning talks shortly.
You still need the ticket to purchase if you would like to give your talk!

We begin to sale VimConf 2019 Early bird ticket on the site below at 2019-08-10 12:00 JST.

https://vimconf2019-ticket.peatix.com

Early bird ticket: JPY 8,800 including tax.

One person can purchase one ticket only. This is a bargain ticket that is same contents of Standard ticket. Standard ticket will be available in later.

VimConf 2019 will be Nov 03, 2019 in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan.
Please review videos from the last year in advance. The conference hall is same as the last year.

Videos from VimConf 2018
Photos from VimConf 2018

We are looking for sponsors here.
Also we will open a form for speakers as soon as possible
The CFP form is opened now !
You can send proposal on the official web site.

https://vimconf.org/2018/

We successfully closed VimConf 2018 yesterday. We’ll upload videos and photos someday. Stay tuned..

Here’s the list of talk slides you can see.

• Bram https://vimconf.org/2018/slides/Vim_From-hjkl-to-a-platform-for-plugins.pdf
• Mattn https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTj2uCbuCffhaLVBZE6biI538GG6jMi1INbku-T9q5hu5W0zGLwuibN3m5xbEuqdUFTDnhdhtikPyTi/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.p
• daisuzu https://speakerdeck.com/daisuzu/migrating-plugins-to-standard-features
• Tatsuhiro Ujihisa https://speakerdeck.com/ujihisa/vimconf-2018
• Masafumi OKURA https://speakerdeck.com/okuramasafumi/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-ordinary-vimmer
• Usami KENTA https://niconare.nicovideo.jp/watch/kn3635
• Alisue https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQKaWJY8w6QJpebvuzg334RfLDbQHv4-J_06yFxdTzLrrjhE_y5iuzA-JxCCuFdUAZQB2QQsidF_mys/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.p
• Akin
• rhysd https://speakerdeck.com/rhysd/vim-ported-to-webassembly-vimconf-2018
  • lightning talks

The official Twitter Hashtag was #vimconf, and this is a collection of tweets during the conference: https://togetter.com/li/1291515

[UPDATED 2018-12-06]

We published talk videos too!

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