Is it possible to set up DConf Asia?

[鲜卑拓跋枫]

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:20:55 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> 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.


Thanks for sharing these info!
Maybe China is also a good candidate:), as we know that Chinese 
companies like
PuTao(http://www.huntframework.com/) is using D for their 
production environment and has been contributed to many D open 
source projects.