Please don't do a DConf 2018, consider alternatives

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at gdcproject.org
Thu Oct 4 07:53:54 UTC 2018


On Wednesday, 3 October 2018 at 16:17:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 October 2018 at 01:28:37 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> On 10/2/18 4:34 AM, Joakim wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 2 October 2018 at 09:39:14 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>>>> On 10/1/18 11:26 PM, Joakim wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> I disagree.
>>> 
>>> It is not clear what you disagree with, since almost nothing 
>>> you say has any bearing on my original post. To summarize, I 
>>> suggest changing the currently talk-driven DConf format to 
>>> either
>>> 
>>> 1. a more decentralized collection of meetups all over the 
>>> world, where most of the talks are pre-recorded, and the 
>>> focus is more on introducing new users to the language or
>>> 
>>> 2. at least ditching most of the talks at a DConf still held 
>>> at a central location, maybe keeping only a couple panel 
>>> discussions that benefit from an audience to ask questions, 
>>> and spending most of the time like the hackathon at the last 
>>> DConf, ie actually meeting in person.
>>> 
>>
>> This point has a subtle flaw. Many of the talks raise points 
>> of discussion that would otherwise go without discussion, and 
>> potentially unnoticed, if it were not for the person bringing 
>> it up. The talks routinely serve as a launchpad for the 
>> nightly dinner sessions. Benjamin Thauts 2016 talk about 
>> shared libraries is one such example. Indeed every single year 
>> has brought at least one (but usually more) talk that opened 
>> up some new line of investigation for the dinner discussions.
>
> I thought it was pretty obvious from my original post, since I 
> volunteered to help with the pre-recorded talks, but the idea 
> is to have pre-recorded talks no matter whether DConf is held 
> in a central location or not.
>

I went to a conference once where they had mixed live talks and 
prerecorded talks - questions where taken at the end to the 
speaker of the prerecorded talk via a sip call.

The organisers at the end admitted that the prerecorded talks 
experiment failed. No one really paid attention to any of the 
content in it.


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