When will D1 be finished?

[Walter Bright]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> Two or whatever years ago, I was _lucky_ to get enough speakers to justify 
> having the conference.  I see no reason to expect that there will suddenly 
> be a wealth of them such that proposed talks could be rejected.  That'd be 
> a wonderful place to be.

It's a fair amount of work to put together a presentation. Being able to 
offer a free ticket, plus perhaps some expense reimbursement for 
speakers, can be very motivating (and is only fair).