DConf 2020 Canceled

[Walter Bright]

On 3/7/2020 2:49 PM, matheus wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 21:58:06 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> Let's do a little online thing instead! We could do a chat room, livestream, 
>> blog, you know stuff like that.
> 
> In fact this is something I'd like to see here, and I even proposed the same 
> thing before.
> 
> You see threads with +50, +100 posts and then nothing fruitful coming, or like 
> the String Interpolation  Thread which was rejected after days of talking.
> 
> Why not go for fast environment like online meeting with webcam? Why wait a year 
> for DConf instead of doing online meeting at least one time a month?
> 
> Where I work for two years now, some of us like myself can work remotely and in 
> any problem or discuss projects, we gather online.
> 
> By the way, having everything written is OK, but in process of gathering ideas, 
> this community should for online debate.
> 
> Matheus.

There's just nothing like an in-person meeting, and hefting a pint with friends 
and colleagues that makes our differences melt away.