Is it possible to set up DConf Asia?

[bauss]

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 11:32:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, June 29, 2018 10:50:52 Joakim via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> I coincidentally just read this blog post, that summarizes a 
>> lot of my thoughts against conferences and meetups:
>>
>> https://marco.org/2018/01/17/end-of-conference-era
>>
>> Maybe a good first step would be a mostly online DConf geared 
>> towards Asian timezones? I could help out with arranging those 
>> online talks.
>
> That article seems to pre-suppose that the only benefit from 
> conferences is the talks. A _lot_ of good comes from having a 
> bunch of the key developers in the same place for a few days 
> where they can talk in person. Some communities (e.g. the BSD 
> community) even have developer meetings connected to 
> conferences where they specifically put a bunch of developers 
> in a room together to discuss stuff. The talks are valuable, 
> but in some ways, those face-to-face interactions are worth far 
> more than the talks. So, while there's certainly value in 
> finding ways to get more talks online, I think that it would be 
> a huge mistake to try and push for online stuff to replace 
> physical conferences where developers actually interact with 
> each other in person.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

A major difference between most conferences and DConf from my 
perspective are things like the Hackathon etc. which makes it 
more than just a conference, but more like a large social D event.