How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

Chris via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 6 07:57:59 PDT 2016


On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:53:15 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 6 May 2016 16:13:35 +0200
> Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d 
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>
> wrote:
>> Also: we're talking about the DConf 2017 location. Please 
>> share any initial thoughts!
>
> My initial thought is that we should consider trying to 
> alternate between the US and Europe, since obviously it's 
> harder for those in Europe to attend if it's in the US, and 
> it's harder for those in the US to attend if it's in Europe. 
> Other places would certainly be interesting (e.g. Japan or 
> Australia), and we definitely have devs in such places, but I 
> don't know if we have enough likely attendees in such areas to 
> make them make sense, since picking somewhere where most 
> attendees would have to travel a long way to get there doesn't 
> really make sense.
>
> Regardless, part of the question is where we can actually get 
> the appropriate sponsorship to have a good location and how the 
> location affects who would organize it.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Facebook have their European headquarters in Dublin. Maybe they'd 
be willing to sponsor DConf2017 (there are loads of other tech 
companies in Dublin). Flights from the U.S. to Ireland and back 
are very frequent.


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