D Conference 2007 ? How about co-location?

[Bill Baxter]

Justin C Calvarese wrote:
> Frank Benoit (keinfarbton) wrote:
>> The posting in D.announce 11/16/06
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=5536 
> 
> for those that like the web interface
> 
> 
>> Anything new about this?
> 
> Well, all I know is what people posted in that old thread.
> 
> Some people showed interest in attending such a conference, but there 
> was much disagreement about where it should be held. Walter proposed 
> having it in Seattle, Washington or Astoria, Oregon, but that seemed 
> like too expensive of a trip for most people that responded in the 
> newsgroup.
> 
> Other places were mentioned by other people. In short, everywhere seemed 
> to be too far away (i.e., too expensive) for most people (i.e. whoever 
> doesn't already live there).
> 

D may be too small at the moment to really be able to swing a dedicated 
conference.  But the alternative is to co-locate with a bigger 
conference that lots of people will be going to anyway, then hold a 
"Birds of a Feather" meeting on site or nearby.

The only big conference I go to is SIGGRAPH, but I suspect that's a 
destination not too many of you are headed for.  FWIW, it'll be in San 
Diego this August 5-9.  But I'd definitely be interested in having a D 
Birds of a Feather there if anyone else is interested.

So what conferences are everyone going to attend this year?  SD West is 
maybe popular?  GDC (not the compiler)?

--bb