D programming language conference

[Koroskin Denis]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:51:48 +0400, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> "Brad Roberts" <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.5.1214207467.32098.digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com...
>> John Reimer wrote:
>>> Hello Walter,
>>>
>>>> is coming soon, August 4-6. Brad says we still have room for more
>>>> speakers, so if you have a fun D project you're working on, we'd love
>>>> to hear about it!
>>>>
>>>> http://d.puremagic.com/conference2008/
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Last year Brad asked that potential attendees contact him so that he
>>> could plan logistics.  Is this required this year?  Or do we just show
>>> up?
>>> -JJR
>>>
>>
>> I'm still struggling to get enough speakers to justify the conference.
>> So far, I don't have enough to fill the first day, let alone 2 or 3.
>> So, please, if you want this thing to happen, find a topic you're
>> willing to stand in front of 50-100 people talking about for and hour
>> and and let me know what it'll be about.  Alternatively, find someone
>> you want to hear from and convince them to do it.
>>
>> If I can't find enough people in the next 2 weeks (give or take based on
>> the rate of people volunteering), I'll have little choice but to abandon
>> it for this year and look at doing it some other time.
>>
>> Assuming this kick in the.. uh... assuming the conference is going to
>> happen, I'll open up registration pretty much just like last year.
>>
>> On the good news front.  I have the videos from 2007 finally!  I need to
>> watch them and get google video's to digest them.  This will take some
>> time and I'll try to get it done asap.  My first attempt to send one to
>> google looks to be a bust (2 seconds of gray != 90 minutes of
>> presentation).  More on this over the course of the week.
>>
>> Sigh,
>> Brad
>
> Why not just stick them up somewhere, maybe as a torrent? I've always  
> hated
> "video embedded in flash".
>
>

Agreed, embedded video is good, but I prefer to download all the video  
with no quality loss and keep locally for further watching.