D Developers Conference

[janderson]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> 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
> 

There's gotta be some sort of free online tool to work this out. 
Something like www.meetup.com but perhaps more on matching up times.

-Joel