Is it possible to set up DConf Asia?

[rikki cattermole]

On 29/06/2018 9:20 PM, Joakim wrote:
> On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:03:19 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>    How about set up DConf Asia every year? As far as I know, there are 
>> a few D  programmers and fans in Asia, but DConf was traditionally 
>> held in U.S. or Germany before,so that it may be not convenient for 
>> them to take part in these celebrations.
>>    Today more and more programmers in Asia are embracing Open Source, 
>> and many technology conferences have their Asia version such like the 
>> just concluded LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen that has been held 
>> in Beijing for two years, and the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon will be 
>> held on Nov in Shanghai this year, and many Linux/BSD conferences for 
>> Kernel or Distributions have been held in Japan, Korea, and so on.
>>    For programming languages, PyCon APAC has been successfully held in 
>> many Asian
>> countries each year. And Gopher China has also been held for many years.
>>    So I wonder if DConf can be held in Asia will be sure to greatly 
>> expand the influence of D languages, and attract the eyes of the 
>> largest group of programmers in the world.
>>    All suggestions are welcome!
> 
> I get the sense that the US and Germany have the largest amount of heavy 
> D users, which is why all the DConfs so far have been held in those two 
> countries. Three of the five largest D Meetup groups are in those 
> countries:
> 
> https://www.meetup.com/topics/dpl/
> 
> However, Ali notes significant interest in his D book in China and 
> Russia (also see updated stats later in that thread):
> 
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/oarr8l$19rh$1@digitalmars.com
> 
> Japan may be in third place for heavy users, as Kenji Hara and a few 
> others are significant contributors, and they certainly tweet about dlang:

Kenji has long since gone. He has been missed.

Mike would be a better candidate for organizing as he is in South Korea.

However some meetups first to get an idea of the numbers wouldn't be a 
terrible idea.