DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 2: Copy and Move Semantics in D by Ali Cehreli

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/11/13 5:54 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> And it
> does come across a bit disrespectful to those of us who wanted to go but
> couldn't.

That I do take issue with. After the organizers and the speakers 
invested very significant effort in making this event happen, the basic 
complaint here is that they can't get free content out fast enough.

It may be a nice idea to offer advance access to Kickstarter 
contributors though.

There are three basic issues. One obvious one is postprocessing and 
uploading, work that's quite time-intensive and merciless (literally so 
as this thread shows). Second is keeping the temporal arc going with our 
announcements and discussions - releasing all at once would cannibalize 
the conference. Third, Kickstarter contributors have put money and 
speakers have put hard work into this; it would be disrespectful to 
_them_ to dilute the value of the conference ("nah, I don't care to go; 
after all I can always watch the free videos the day after".)

We could and should adjust the release schedule to make it optimal with 
regards to the desiderata above. Two a week has been an initial thought.

Please think it over and exercise reason.


Thanks,

Andrei