On 10/23/12 10:43 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> I worked with FSF several times, and they usually are really picky about
> process and have pretty strong criteria on almost everything you can
> think of :D
>
> They usually are not the easiest organization to work with.

If you have any contacts worth trying, it would be great if you gave it a shot.

Thanks,

Andrei

On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 14:26:21 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 14:15:22 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> 1/4 of the money raised in 2 days.
>
>
> I expect the speed will slow down significantly because most the D followers would have already seen it in the first couple days...

Yeqh, but I haven't pledged yet :o

Promise I will :)

On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 23:43:27 SomeDude wrote:
> Yeqh, but I haven't pledged yet :o
> 
> Promise I will :)

So, does that mean that you're pledging to pledge? ;)

- Jonathan M Davis

On Monday, 22 October 2012 at 17:25:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> We're on! For one month starting today, we're raising funding for DConf 2013.
>
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-programming-language-conference-2013-0
>
> Please pledge your support and encourage your friends to do the same. Hope to see you in 2013!

I'm a backer now, with Facebook and Amazon accounts it was real quick and simple.

My evil plan is the fact of organizing this conference will bring more people's attention to the language, more adopters and developers, so the implementation will get better and better faster.

On 10/22/2012 10:25 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> We're on! For one month starting today, we're raising funding for DConf
> 2013.
>
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-programming-language-conference-2013-0
>
>
> Please pledge your support and encourage your friends to do the same.
> Hope to see you in 2013!
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

Passed the 50% mark! :)

Ali

On 10/26/2012 11:55 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Passed the 50% mark! :)

Thanks in part to you!

On 22/10/2012 19:25, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> We're on! For one month starting today, we're raising funding for DConf
> 2013.
>
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-programming-language-conference-2013-0
>
>
> Please pledge your support and encourage your friends to do the same.
> Hope to see you in 2013!
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

Looking at the graph and excluding the super-villains (who are they?) the current pool seems close to empty.
There will probably be an end spurt if the goals seems in sight, but as it stand I don't see this happening.

My reason for not having pledged:
Too expensive: flight + ticket.
I will pledge 100$ if that would mean videos.

On 10/31/12 8:35 PM, Faux Amis wrote:
> On 22/10/2012 19:25, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We're on! For one month starting today, we're raising funding for DConf
>> 2013.
>>
>> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-programming-language-conference-2013-0
>>
>>
>>
>> Please pledge your support and encourage your friends to do the same.
>> Hope to see you in 2013!
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Looking at the graph and excluding the super-villains (who are they?)
> the current pool seems close to empty.

We currently have one generous $5K contribution from Andrew Edwards (an enlisted US Marine) and another one from Sociomantic.com. Since Andrew is not competing for branding or recruiting, we're considering offering one extra Kryptonite slot should we receive requests.

Excluding the large contributions is actually not indicative because most conferences actually finance via sponsorships.

> There will probably be an end spurt if the goals seems in sight, but as
> it stand I don't see this happening.

The way I see it, we have 16 firm early bird attendees, and we're six corporate sponsorships away from reaching our goal. We must make this happen.

One thing we could all do is to mention the conference to our recruiting managers. This is a golden opportunity to recruit straight in the Bay Area. A contribution as simple as offering a conference room for three days would mean huge goodwill in the D community for next to no cost to the company.

> My reason for not having pledged:
> Too expensive: flight + ticket.
> I will pledge 100$ if that would mean videos.

Understood. Note that if you submit a talk proposal, it's possible (no promise though at this point) we'd be able to defray transportation costs.


Andrei

On 1 November 2012 00:35, Faux Amis <faux@amis.com> wrote:
> On 22/10/2012 19:25, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> We're on! For one month starting today, we're raising funding for DConf 2013.
>>
>>
>> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-programming-language-conference-2013-0
>>
>>
>> Please pledge your support and encourage your friends to do the same. Hope to see you in 2013!
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrei
>
>
> Looking at the graph and excluding the super-villains (who are they?) the
> current pool seems close to empty.
> There will probably be an end spurt if the goals seems in sight, but as it
> stand I don't see this happening.
>
> My reason for not having pledged:
> Too expensive: flight + ticket.
> I will pledge 100$ if that would mean videos.
>

I should hope that it would be video'd - :o)

-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';

On 10/31/12 8:35 PM, Faux Amis wrote:
> I will pledge 100$ if that would mean videos.

I second that. Many of us won't be able to attend to the
conference due to travel costs and it would be nice if there are
videos.