Is it possible to set up DConf Asia?

[Joakim]

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:31:05 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:
> On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:20:55 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:03:19 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:
>>>    [...]
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/dlang
>>
>> It may be a good forward-looking move to hold one of the next 
>> two or three DConfs in Japan or Hong Kong, perhaps working 
>> with Laeeth and the Hong Kong Meetup group.
>
>
> Thanks for sharing these info!
> Maybe China is also a good candidate:), as we know that Chinese 
> companies like
> PuTao(http://www.huntframework.com/) is using D for their 
> production environment and has been contributed to many D open 
> source projects.

I coincidentally just read this blog post, that summarizes a lot 
of my thoughts against conferences and meetups:

https://marco.org/2018/01/17/end-of-conference-era

Maybe a good first step would be a mostly online DConf geared 
towards Asian timezones? I could help out with arranging those 
online talks.