D Developers Conference

[Brad Roberts]

Sorry, normally I post from the mailing list.  This was my first post 
via a newsreader so I could set those followup-to's and apparently I'd 
never setup my email address.  This really was from me.

Later,
Brad

user at domain.invalid wrote:
> It's time to get serious about organizing the first of what will 
> hopefully be many conferences dedicated to D.  There's a lot of 
> questions to be asked and answered, choices to be made, and things to 
> organized.
> 
>   1) Where can we hold the event?
>   2) Who's going to organize everything?
>   3) How many days should it be?
>   4) How many people will be able to attend?
>   5) How many people will volunteer to present on some topic?
>   6) Lodging?  Where?  Cost?
>   ... and bound to be a couple dozen more.
> 
> I can answer the first two finally, and take a stab at the others.
> 
> Where?  My employer, Amazon.com, has generously agreed to let me host it 
> in our conference rooms.  So, we have as much space as we need (unless 
> I'm grossly under-estimating things).
> 
> When?  I haven't yet secured the conference rooms for any specific 
> dates, but planning far enough out I don't anticipate any problems. 
> Depending on the number of participants and presentations, I propose it 
> be held on either a Friday or a Thursday and Friday.  To give us 
> sufficient time to organize things, let's shoot for August 23 through 
> September 28; any one of those weeks.  IE, Aug 23-24, Aug 30-31, Sept 
> 6-7, Sept 13-14, Sept 20-21, or Sept 27-28.  If there's a date that 
> suits those of you who can attend, please let me know.  The first date 
> overlaps with another conference here in Seattle that might appeal to 
> some of you, http://www.pennyarcadeexpo.com/.  While that conference 
> isn't free, it's darned near free ($40 for a three day pass right now).
> 
> Length: one or two days?  That's entirely driven by how many of you can 
> attend and are volunteering to speak to a room full of fellow 
> developers.  I really hope that there's enough of both that we can fill 
> two days to make the trip worth more.
> 
> I don't know if I can take advantage of Amazon's negotiated hotel rates. 
>  Depending on the number of attendees we might be able to negotiate our 
> own rates at a nearby hotel.  Group discounts will help keep things 
> cheaper.
> 
> So.. I've set the reply-to to me, and followup-to to digitalmars.D. 
> Let's keep discussion out of the announce newsgroup.  If you'd like to 
> be a presenter, please send me a quick abstract / description.  If you 
> intend to attend, please let me know which dates work best for you. I'll 
> summarize the results to narrow down the exact dates.
> 
> - Brad