On Sunday, 1 November 2015 at 02:41:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
> There's been considerable back and forth between Sociomantic and ourselves before choosing this path. One concern was that corporate intervention risks to stifle individual contributions such as Jonas' and ponce's. We concluded that we've been roughing it long enough so a bit of structured help is welcome.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

Hey, no problem. The site wasn't quite good enough anyway and it's good to see Sociomantic endorsing D to that extent.

On Sunday, 1 November 2015 at 02:41:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/31/15 5:24 PM, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Many thanks to both you and ponce! This is great work.
>
> I have good news and bad news. The bad news is we won't likely be able to accept either of these proposals.
>
> [...]

No worries - I just quickly threw something together that I though could do.

Having an actual pro team behind this is great news!

On 1 November 2015 at 03:41, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 10/31/15 5:24 PM, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, 25 October 2015 at 23:59:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/25/15 8:04 AM, ponce wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Friday, 23 October 2015 at 16:37:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://dconf.org/2016/index.html
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you need a new logo this year? I would be happy to make another, better one.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes please! Forgot to mention that. Many thanks!! -- Andrei
>>>
>>
>> I gave it a shot:
>>
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/188292/g4421.png
>>
>> /Jonas
>>
>
> Many thanks to both you and ponce! This is great work.
>
> I have good news and bad news. The bad news is we won't likely be able to accept either of these proposals.
>
> The good news is Sociomantic wants to get behind the DConf logo design, more generally behind the dconf.org site design, and even more generally get more involved in helping the Foundation and the language. It will take their design team a bit longer to get things done, but they want to do it right.
>
>
Does the design team know this yet?  :-)

Iain.

On Sunday, 1 November 2015 at 19:28:48 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> Many thanks to both you and ponce! This is great work.
>>
>> I have good news and bad news. The bad news is we won't likely be able to accept either of these proposals.
>>
>> The good news is Sociomantic wants to get behind the DConf logo design, more generally behind the dconf.org site design, and even more generally get more involved in helping the Foundation and the language. It will take their design team a bit longer to get things done, but they want to do it right.
>>
>>
> Does the design team know this yet?  :-)
>
> Iain.

Yes :)

On 11/1/15, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> Yes :)

Are they going to design some kick-ass T-shirts to go along with it too? :)

On 11/01/2015 02:28 PM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 1 November 2015 at 03:41, Andrei Alexandrescu via
> Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com
> <mailto:digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/31/15 5:24 PM, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
>
>         On Sunday, 25 October 2015 at 23:59:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
>         wrote:
>
>             On 10/25/15 8:04 AM, ponce wrote:
>
>                 On Friday, 23 October 2015 at 16:37:20 UTC, Andrei
>                 Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>
>                     http://dconf.org/2016/index.html
>
>
>                 Do you need a new logo this year? I would be happy to
>                 make another,
>                 better one.
>
>
>             Yes please! Forgot to mention that. Many thanks!! -- Andrei
>
>
>         I gave it a shot:
>
>         https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/188292/g4421.png
>
>         /Jonas
>
>
>     Many thanks to both you and ponce! This is great work.
>
>     I have good news and bad news. The bad news is we won't likely be
>     able to accept either of these proposals.
>
>     The good news is Sociomantic wants to get behind the DConf logo
>     design, more generally behind the dconf.org <http://dconf.org> site
>     design, and even more generally get more involved in helping the
>     Foundation and the language. It will take their design team a bit
>     longer to get things done, but they want to do it right.
>
>
> Does the design team know this yet?  :-)

Affirmative. -- Andrei

On Sun, 2015-11-01 at 21:55 +0100, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote:
> On 11/1/15, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> > Yes :)
> 
> Are they going to design some kick-ass T-shirts to go along with it too? :)

If they do, and they are long-body t-shirts, is there any chance of people buying them who will not be able to be at the conference?

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On Sunday, 1 November 2015 at 02:41:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> The good news is Sociomantic wants to ... more generally get more involved in
> helping the Foundation and the language.

Hey - this is great news, and not a complete surprise for those of us reading between the lines ... (who else could the corporate sponsor have been ? ;)

But are you and they going to send out a press release or something and announce it on Reddit and Hacker News?

[BTW you mentioned a desire to have more lieutenants to do such things, and that's definitely a better way to organize things, but at the same time it's not that clear what the status of things is.  Eg I waited for a while to post news of your leaving Facebook to reddit because I didn't know if you were ready].

I am speaking at codemesh on D tomorrow, and I don't want to take any risk in stealing the thunder by leaking it to a broader audience prematurely.

Ie if you could be clearer in desired communications strategy that would help I think.

On 11/02/2015 07:42 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Sunday, 1 November 2015 at 02:41:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> The good news is Sociomantic wants to ... more generally get more
>> involved in
>> helping the Foundation and the language.
>
> Hey - this is great news, and not a complete surprise for those of us
> reading between the lines ... (who else could the corporate sponsor have
> been ? ;)
>
> But are you and they going to send out a press release or something and
> announce it on Reddit and Hacker News?

I'll have a meeting with them to discuss this topic among others.

> [BTW you mentioned a desire to have more lieutenants to do such things,
> and that's definitely a better way to organize things, but at the same
> time it's not that clear what the status of things is.  Eg I waited for
> a while to post news of your leaving Facebook to reddit because I didn't
> know if you were ready].

On the face of it any publicly available information can be posted to social news outlets by anyone. Apply good judgment to what's considered newsworthy etc. Then of course there are better times than others to post news (PST mornings are better, workdays are better, and Monday is better).

> I am speaking at codemesh on D tomorrow, and I don't want to take any
> risk in stealing the thunder by leaking it to a broader audience
> prematurely.

Good luck. Just have at it!

> Ie if you could be clearer in desired communications strategy that would
> help I think.

I'll think of refinements, but by and large if I announce it here, announce everywhere.


Thanks,

Andrei

On 10/31/15 10:41 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/31/15 5:24 PM, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
>> On Sunday, 25 October 2015 at 23:59:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 10/25/15 8:04 AM, ponce wrote:
>>>> On Friday, 23 October 2015 at 16:37:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://dconf.org/2016/index.html
>>>>
>>>> Do you need a new logo this year? I would be happy to make another,
>>>> better one.
>>>
>>> Yes please! Forgot to mention that. Many thanks!! -- Andrei
>>
>> I gave it a shot:
>>
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/188292/g4421.png
>>
>> /Jonas
>
> Many thanks to both you and ponce! This is great work.
>
> I have good news and bad news. The bad news is we won't likely be able
> to accept either of these proposals.
>
> The good news is Sociomantic wants to get behind the DConf logo design,
> more generally behind the dconf.org site design, and even more generally
> get more involved in helping the Foundation and the language. It will
> take their design team a bit longer to get things done, but they want to
> do it right.
>
> There's been considerable back and forth between Sociomantic and
> ourselves before choosing this path. One concern was that corporate
> intervention risks to stifle individual contributions such as Jonas' and
> ponce's. We concluded that we've been roughing it long enough so a bit
> of structured help is welcome.
>
> I am very sorry your work will not be used for the conference site. My
> hope is this decision will help the greater good.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

Well! About that: after talking things through with Sociomantic today, we thought it's best if we let the community design the DConf logo. Sociomantic's designers are quite busy through the end of the year, and the extant proposals aren't half bad.

Sociomantic continues to be unwavering in its support for DConf and The D Language Foundation. They will design the T-shirts and the welcome package for the conference.

So, while I'm away (I'll be traveling for most of this week), please let's vote on the two DConf logo proposals and choose one for http://dconf.org.


Thanks,

Andrei