On the panel discussion at Dconf day 3

[Adam Wilson]

On Sunday, 10 September 2023 at 10:32:52 UTC, claptrap wrote:
> They could have just spent the money on youtube ads, reached 
> 10x as many people and targeted people who actually might be 
> interested in it.
>

Possible but unlikely TBH. Ads are a terrible tool for this. The 
better argument would be "spend the money to get a name like 
Scott Meyers".

> Tbh the presentation seemed lacking in substance to me. "The 
> truth about D" was not an accurate name for the talk and there 
> was no real explanation of how IVY would help D. Thats actually 
> what people wanted to know, how is IVY going to help D.
>
> I think most people are still non the wiser on that point.

IMO, the purpose of the presentation was to set-up the Hackathon 
day sessions, they made that pretty clear IRL, don't know if it 
came through on stream.

The titling and all that, it's marketing, the "D" part would be 
swapped out were it for any other language and the talk kept 
mostly the same. That's how these talks work. I've sat through 
many of them at bigger conferences. It's just part of the game. 
Getting bent out of shape over it is pointless.

When I saw the talk on the DConf schedule I briefly googled 
Ucora/IVY, read about it for five minutes, figured out what it 
was, and having correctly deduced what it was, I opened my laptop 
during the talk and was hammering away on ODBC stuff for the 
duration. I completely tuned it out until Mr. Colvin's most 
excellent question. But *that* is a totally different topic.

And frankly, it's not the only talk I tuned out, some of the 
talks held no interest to me, others I found really quite 
engaging. Mike Shah's students for example. Other folks have 
different interests, that's the nature of one-track conferences, 
so be prepared with something else to do, and be kind to others 
by sitting in the back. :)