I'm currently planning to officially launch early-bird registration for DConf 2020 in early February, hopefully in tandem with news that we have confirmed our invited keynote speaker.

Consider this announcement a "soft launch". Those of you eager to get your registrations squared away can do so right now through our Flipcause registration form:

https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NzQ0NzA=

I'll open registration through PayPal once the official announcement goes out on the blog and social media. Both registration options will be available at dconf.org.

Once again, the regular registration rate will be $400 USD + 20% VAT, for a total of $480. The early-bird registration is a 15% discount: $340 + 20% VAT for a total of $408 (£312.15 at the January HMRC exchange rate, which may change in February).

Early-bird registration is available until April 19 AOE.

For those of you intending to make any submissions, that is also the date we'll notify submission authors of their submission status. The submission deadline is April 12 AOE.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 2:05 PM Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> [snip]
> I'll open registration through PayPal once the official
> announcement goes out on the blog and social media. Both
> registration options will be available at dconf.org.
> [snip]


Hi Mike,

There is a typo at:
*while enhanching the D ecosystem   *

R

On Monday, 27 January 2020 at 13:30:20 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
>
> There is a typo at:
> *while enhanching the D ecosystem   *
>
> R

Thanks, Rory!

On Monday, 27 January 2020 at 12:00:32 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

> For those of you intending to make any submissions, that is also the date we'll notify submission authors of their submission status. The submission deadline is April 12 AOE.

Wait, will you notify the submission authors before or after the deadline? If my submission is accepted, will I need to pay for the registration?

On 1/27/20 11:16 AM, Murilo wrote:
> On Monday, 27 January 2020 at 12:00:32 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> 
>> For those of you intending to make any submissions, that is also the date we'll notify submission authors of their submission status. The submission deadline is April 12 AOE.
> 
> Wait, will you notify the submission authors before or after the deadline? If my submission is accepted, will I need to pay for the registration?

Past conferences you did not have to pay for the conference if you are giving a talk. I think you can hold off registering until you are notified and still get the early bird rate (if you are not chosen), since the date you are notified is the same as the last day of early bird registration.

-Steve

On Monday, 27 January 2020 at 17:49:05 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Past conferences you did not have to pay for the conference if you are giving a talk. I think you can hold off registering until you are notified and still get the early bird rate (if you are not chosen), since the date you are notified is the same as the last day of early bird registration.
>
> -Steve

Thanks.

On 1/27/2020 8:16 AM, Murilo wrote:
> Wait, will you notify the submission authors before or after the deadline? If my submission is accepted, will I need to pay for the registration?

If your talk is accepted and you've already bought a ticket, we'll refund it.

On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 at 07:13:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/27/2020 8:16 AM, Murilo wrote:
>> Wait, will you notify the submission authors before or after the deadline? If my submission is accepted, will I need to pay for the registration?
>
> If your talk is accepted and you've already bought a ticket, we'll refund it.

Thank you very much Mr. Bright.

On Monday, 27 January 2020 at 12:00:32 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

> I'll open registration through PayPal once the official announcement goes out on the blog and social media. Both registration options will be available at dconf.org.
>

The PayPal links are live:

https://dconf.org/2020/index.html#registration

The blog announcement is coming soon. Just waiting wrap up a bit of housekeeping regarding our invited keynote speaker!