D Language Foundation July 2025 Monthly Meeting Summary

[Mike Parker]

On Friday, 30 January 2026 at 03:36:32 UTC, Ki wrote:
> On Friday, 23 January 2026 at 14:51:26 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> The D Language Foundation’s July 2025 monthly meeting took ...
>>
>
> I have a few questions:
>
> 1. This summary is not written by hand, is it? If the meetings 
> are recorded, an LLM could be used to generate a draft summary 
> from the audio or video. A second LLM call could then flag 
> potential inconsistencies or gaps for manual review, helping 
> streamline the workflow.

I record every meeting, then produce a transcript using Davinci 
Resolve's AI generator. It includes speaker names and time codes, 
and I can use it inside Resolve to easily jump to specific points 
in the timeline to clarify whatever is garbled.

Until recently, I would then take that transcript and draft a 
summary by hand into the the form you see in the posts. I'm not 
going to publish raw transcripts for several reasons.

I experimented a few times with feeding ChatGPT examples of past 
summaries, then giving it a transcript to generate a first draft 
that I could then edit. It required too much revision to be 
worthwhile. On my most recent attempt, I found that it's much 
improved. Now it can produce a first draft that isn't garbage. I 
still have to do extensive revisions to get it into the shape I 
want, but I'm able to keep a significant portion of it. This is 
saving me a nice chunk of time and will help me get caught up to 
where I want to be, which is publishing every month the previous 
meeting's summary just before the next one.

>
> 2. I think this would be a great blog post series. What do you 
> think?
> Maybe name it like this:
> - D under the hood: [title]
> - DFL (D Language Foundation) monthly: Behind the Scenes
> - Inside D: Monthly Foundation Updates

If I had infinite time, I might consider it, but it's not 
realistic. And anyway, that seems redundant to me since they're 
posted here on the forums and in this git repository:

https://github.com/dlang/meetings

Once I get caught up, I'm going to go back and add the older ones 
that aren't there.

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>
> Thanks for sharing this! I really enjoy reading summaries like 
> this from time to time - they are both interesting and 
> insightful, and shows the complex issues the language 
> maintainers and developers face. I think it would be great to 
> give it its own space.

I'm glad you enjoy reading them.