Is it possible to set up DConf Asia?

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On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 11:54:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> 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.
>
> It "pre-supposes" nothing, points like yours are specifically 
> addressed:
>
> "But all of that media can’t really replace the socializing, 
> networking, and simply fun that happened as part of (or 
> sometimes despite) the conference formula."
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't, I think it would be a huge improvement. There are very 
> few benefits to getting people together in person in our 
> hyperconnected age, and while "key developers in the same 
> place" may be one of those, that excludes almost everybody else 
> at DConf.
>
> Honestly, getting everybody together in a room and having them 
> stare straight ahead at a speaker is a blindingly stupid waste 
> of time these days. The only advantage of everybody being 
> together in a room is the heightened communication bandwidth, 
> and then you all sit next to each other staring straight ahead 
> silently. The conference format made sense when pretty much 
> everybody attending didn't have high-speed internet and 
> connected video displays decades ago, but they make no sense 
> now, as that blog post notes.

Actually the network speed in China is not satisfied in some 
extent, and that of Korea and Japan are much better.