Dconf 2015's programme is on! http://dconf.org/2015/index.html

I would like to thank everyone who submitted a proposal. We've had very strong proposals this year and a 50% acceptance rate, which made it very difficult to only choose half.

Submitters are encouraged to join the conference; we'll have two panels and ample unstructured time during the evenings to keep discussions going.

Last but not least, I encourage everyone in the community to register. The strength of any conference is ultimately decided by its attendees. We're operating at a loss to keep registration costs low, and chose a location that is accessible and affordable.

Take the schedule to your employer or academic advisor and ask them if you can attend!


Andrei

On Monday, 23 March 2015 at 16:47:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> Dconf 2015's programme is on! http://dconf.org/2015/index.html
>
  We're operating at a loss to keep
> registration costs low, and chose a location that is accessible and affordable.
>
> Take the schedule to your employer or academic advisor and ask them if you can attend!
>
>
> Andrei

Perhaps you might want to ask for a nominal amount to cover
putting up the content on the web after the conference ?

Nick

On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 02:17:22 Nick B via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Monday, 23 March 2015 at 16:47:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > Dconf 2015's programme is on! http://dconf.org/2015/index.html
> >
>    We're operating at a loss to keep
> > registration costs low, and chose a location that is accessible and affordable.
> >
> > Take the schedule to your employer or academic advisor and ask them if you can attend!
> >
> >
> > Andrei
>
> Perhaps you might want to ask for a nominal amount to cover putting up the content on the web after the conference ?

Given how much complaining there was in the past when the videos were not made immediately available and were instead released with reddit posts at regular intervals, I hate to think how much complaining there would be if we tried to charge for someone to watch them. It's also not something I've ever heard of a conference doing. The folks who go pay, and if the talks are made available, they're posted for free. So, it would be abnormal and would look bad if we charged for them. Also, if the point of charging less for the conference was to make it more accessible, charging for the talks online would be contrary to that goal.

No. It sounds like what's probably needed is to find ways to encourage sponsorship, and for that to work, we probably need to spread knowledge of D further so that its adoption grows, and charging for the online content would definitely get in the way of that.

- Jonathan M Davis

On 3/23/2015 8:01 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> No. It sounds like what's probably needed is to find ways to encourage
> sponsorship, and for that to work, we probably need to spread knowledge of D
> further so that its adoption grows, and charging for the online content
> would definitely get in the way of that.

There is a $50 sponsorship button now at:

  http://dconf.org/2015/registration.html

If your business is using D, and you'd like a banner sponsorship ad on dconf.org, please contact me or Andrei. After all, supporting D with sponsorships helps us support everyone with a better D.

Speaker's pages (http://dconf.org/2015/talks/zvibel.html for example) shows 2014 in the title.

On Monday, 23 March 2015 at 16:47:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Dconf 2015's programme is on! http://dconf.org/2015/index.html
>
> I would like to thank everyone who submitted a proposal. We've had very strong proposals this year and a 50% acceptance rate, which made it very difficult to only choose half.
>
> Submitters are encouraged to join the conference; we'll have two panels and ample unstructured time during the evenings to keep discussions going.
>
> Last but not least, I encourage everyone in the community to register. The strength of any conference is ultimately decided by its attendees. We're operating at a loss to keep registration costs low, and chose a location that is accessible and affordable.
>
> Take the schedule to your employer or academic advisor and ask them if you can attend!
>
>
> Andrei

On 23 March 2015 at 16:47, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> Dconf 2015's programme is on! http://dconf.org/2015/index.html
>
> I would like to thank everyone who submitted a proposal. We've had very strong proposals this year and a 50% acceptance rate, which made it very difficult to only choose half.
>
> Submitters are encouraged to join the conference; we'll have two panels and ample unstructured time during the evenings to keep discussions going.
>
> Last but not least, I encourage everyone in the community to register. The strength of any conference is ultimately decided by its attendees. We're operating at a loss to keep registration costs low, and chose a location that is accessible and affordable.
>
> Take the schedule to your employer or academic advisor and ask them if you can attend!
>
>
> Andrei

+1 For making Day 3 an hour shorter.  I guess there's no time for lightning talks? ;-)

Iain.

On Monday, 23 March 2015 at 16:47:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Dconf 2015's programme is on! http://dconf.org/2015/index.html
>
> I would like to thank everyone who submitted a proposal. We've had very strong proposals this year and a 50% acceptance rate, which made it very difficult to only choose half.
>
> Submitters are encouraged to join the conference; we'll have two panels and ample unstructured time during the evenings to keep discussions going.
>
> Last but not least, I encourage everyone in the community to register. The strength of any conference is ultimately decided by its attendees. We're operating at a loss to keep registration costs low, and chose a location that is accessible and affordable.
>
> Take the schedule to your employer or academic advisor and ask them if you can attend!
>
>
> Andrei

Schedule is looking very interesting! Session will be recorded, right? ;)

On 3/24/15 12:47 AM, Nemanja Boric wrote:
> Speaker's pages (http://dconf.org/2015/talks/zvibel.html for example)
> shows 2014 in the title.

Thanks! https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dconf.org/pull/50

On 3/24/15 1:28 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> +1 For making Day 3 an hour shorter.  I guess there's no time for
> lightning talks?;-)

It was a difficult decision but we did note that on day 3 the last slot is sacrificed. We might be able to organize lightning talks after the official schedule in the first two days. -- Andrei

On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 13:47:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 3/24/15 1:28 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> +1 For making Day 3 an hour shorter.  I guess there's no time for
>> lightning talks?;-)
>
> It was a difficult decision but we did note that on day 3 the last slot is sacrificed. We might be able to organize lightning talks after the official schedule in the first two days. -- Andrei

Yeah, Brian's was one on the best talk last year :)