Is it possible to set up DConf Asia?

[Joakim]

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:03:19 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:
> Dear all,
>    How about set up DConf Asia every year? As far as I know, 
> there are a few D  programmers and fans in Asia, but DConf was 
> traditionally held in U.S. or Germany before,so that it may be 
> not convenient for them to take part in these celebrations.
>    Today more and more programmers in Asia are embracing Open 
> Source, and many technology conferences have their Asia version 
> such like the just concluded LinuxCon + ContainerCon + 
> CloudOpen that has been held in Beijing for two years, and the 
> KubeCon + CloudNativeCon will be held on Nov in Shanghai this 
> year, and many Linux/BSD conferences for Kernel or 
> Distributions have been held in Japan, Korea, and so on.
>    For programming languages, PyCon APAC has been successfully 
> held in many Asian
> countries each year. And Gopher China has also been held for 
> many years.
>    So I wonder if DConf can be held in Asia will be sure to 
> greatly expand the influence of D languages, and attract the 
> eyes of the largest group of programmers in the world.
>    All suggestions are welcome!

I get the sense that the US and Germany have the largest amount 
of heavy D users, which is why all the DConfs so far have been 
held in those two countries. Three of the five largest D Meetup 
groups are in those countries:

https://www.meetup.com/topics/dpl/

However, Ali notes significant interest in his D book in China 
and Russia (also see updated stats later in that thread):

https://forum.dlang.org/post/oarr8l$19rh$1@digitalmars.com

Japan may be in third place for heavy users, as Kenji Hara and a 
few others are significant contributors, and they certainly tweet 
about dlang:

https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/dlang

It may be a good forward-looking move to hold one of the next two 
or three DConfs in Japan or Hong Kong, perhaps working with 
Laeeth and the Hong Kong Meetup group.