DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 00:51:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
>
> The talks are either irrelevant, trivial, or vaporware 
> (seriously, how much of the stuff described have never come to 
> pass?), and there's really no benefit in spending several days 
> of my life on that. Especially when I can watch it on youtube 
> in half the time (thanks 2x speed playback)... or less (thanks 
> skimming around to find the interesting nugget in the sea of 
> boredom).
>

I think this is a bit uncharitable.

Last year I had an amazing time at Dconf.
Went to bike there for 9 days (800km), to arrive the day before 
DConf.
Munich was a beautiful city but Switzerland was very graphic.
Friends jokingly said it was a D pilgrimage and it was, kind of :)

The talks were honestly all interesting, probably being there 
puts you in the mood to really get into them. It's a shame not 
all of them were recorded. I remember those from Johnathan, 
Andrei and those talks on "open methods" more distinctly. Putting 
a face on people you've known from the internet is really 
surprising.

My only regret was not sleeping at the hotel since you don't get 
as many occasions to meet people in a beer settings.

I was more than happy to pay the full DConf price and expenses 
for a trip I will remember all my life.