DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!
Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri May 29 23:51:51 PDT 2015
On 30/05/2015 6:45 p.m., Joakim wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 05:08:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Why not DConf is carried out twice a year!? :)
>>> E.g. in May and in November. It would be really great. Please think
>>> about it!
>>
>> Hmm, there may be a little disconnect here. Organizing conferences
>> costs money, which currently comes from Walter and my pocket. Whilst I
>> understand how it's awfully exciting to enjoy quality content from the
>> comfort of one's device, we need more attendees before more
>> conferences to make the checkbooks balance. Besides, there is no
>> substitute for being there, as I'm sure all of this year's DConf
>> participants may attest.
>
> I've been thinking that D needs more globally-available talks like this
> throughout the year. One way to do it would be to schedule monthly
> livestreams of a D developer in front of his webcam, like the Jai
> programming language guy was doing. I could help organize something
> like this, but the problem isn't getting it up and running but having
> people actually give talks. I can't even get people to answer my emails
> for email interviews about D (with the exception of Mihails, who's been
> very prompt).
>
> No doubt everybody is very busy and D is a hobby that's easily pushed
> aside, but online talks could keep the conference momentum going
> throughout the year.
In the past week or two, I've been considering doing a livestream for
charity on livecoding.tv. Also thought about e.g. livestream conferences.
Very very different way to go about it. But I'm interested.
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