D Developers Conference

[Brad Roberts]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> BCS wrote:
>> David B. Held wrote:
>>> Brad Roberts wrote:
>>>
>>>>     http://d.puremagic.com/conference2007/
>>>>
>>>> If you will be attending, please click on the registration link.  
>>>> There isn't an entrance fee or anything like that, but I do need to 
>>>> get a fairly accurate count of who will be attending.
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking forward to seeing you all there.. mark your calendars, 
>>>> August 23 and 24, 2007.
>>>
>>> Is there going to be any kind of podcasting or live video option for 
>>> those that can't make it in person?  It would also be cool if there 
>>> were like a remote-email-question-submission thingy available for 
>>> Q&A.  After all, the D community is quite global, so why not try to 
>>> make the conference global too?
>>
>> How about a special newsgroup:
>>  "Post your questions, we'll ask the speaker!"
> 
> If the organisers were smart, they'd announce no podcasting. Such 
> announcements only tend to reduce the number of participants. ("Hey, why 
> would I pay too much for the trip when I can view the stuff on my screen 
> the next day?" Not all, but some (especially the economically pressed, 
> like students, smallest entrepreneurs, married folks, etc.) would choose 
> to stay home. Bad for business. The possible podcasts would then appear 
> as nice surprises to those who really couldn't come. (Besides, no use 
> committing to something one can't guarantee to deliver.)
> 
> OTOH, the "Post your questions, we'll ask the speaker!" idea is just 
> excellent!!

Ahem.. you'll notice that I've not replied to the question yet. :)

As to the 'ask the speakers questions bit'.. Do that here.  Why do you 
want to wait a bunch of months to ask a question when you could do so 
right now, no waiting, no muss, no fuss.

To explicitly address the original question.  I doubt I'll be able to 
arrange live broadcasting of the conference.  There's a number of issues 
with that, the above being just one of them.  I hope to have recordings 
publishable after the fact, but I haven't worked out the details of that 
yet, though it's on my issues list.

Later,
Brad