Technology Trends Indicated in "The IT Study Meeting Calendar"

In recent years, study meeting is widely popular among engineers, especially who are engaged in the information technologies. For Japanese IT engineers, there is an famous web service titled "The IT Study Meeting Calendar," where anyone who wants to advertise any type of study meeting can put the information of the events. In this study, the set of information was gathered from the calendar and analyzed to grab some technology trends in the-state-of-art information technologies. This paper describes the brief introduction of the study and shows some results of the first investigation. Further discussions will be expected.