On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 11:43:58 UTC, SashaGreat wrote:
> First I totally agree with Online Conference, but on the other hand I don't think this will fly in this community, because for what I see unfortunately Walter is trapped in the past and for him it's: in-person meeting or NOTHING.
>
> I came to this conclusion after seeing his responses in this thread, like:
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>> I'm pretty upset about it, I was really looking forward to it. But we really had no choice.
>
> Well we have a choice, online meeting.
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>> Next year, we're going to have it even if a meteor strike is imminent :-)
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> I know it's a sarcasm, but by this response he prefer to put people's life in risk instead of trying an online version and see how it goes.
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>> There's just nothing like an in-person meeting, and hefting a pint with friends and colleagues that makes our differences melt away.
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> Of course, but in this case an online version would be better than nothing.
>
> In the end Walter could have said let's try something online and see how it works, but there were no incentive, and this is strange in the period of time where meeting online is pretty standard and cheaper for many of us.
>
> Sasha.

That was such an ignorant interpretation, Sasha, you're simply accusing the guy of being this and that just because he didn't use the words you'd like. Grow up please.

On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 19:58:20 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 19:36:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/16/2020 9:15 AM, bachmeier wrote:
>>> "Have an online conference" isn't especially helpful. There haven't been any detailed proposals, and Walter hasn't said anything one way or the other about doing something online.
>>
>> Anyone who wants to step up and take charge of it has my support.
>
> Same here.

We could use Jitsi[1]. It's video conferencing software that works on
all common platforms (including browser through WebRTC), and supports
screen sharing/presentations, it has a recording feature, and it also
has text chat and moderation features.

[1] https://jitsi.org/

On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 20:00:46 UTC, Murilo wrote:
> That was such an ignorant interpretation, Sasha, you're simply accusing the guy of being this and that just because he didn't use the words you'd like. Grow up please.

As I wrote before, let Walter answer for himself. I'm not accusing anyone, I just wrote over what I read and interesting enough, now Walter said he's in favor of an online meeting.

Please shut up.

Sasha.

On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 19:36:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/16/2020 9:15 AM, bachmeier wrote:
>> "Have an online conference" isn't especially helpful. There haven't been any detailed proposals, and Walter hasn't said anything one way or the other about doing something online.
>
> Oh, I'm quite in favor of an online conference. Anyone who wants to step up and take charge of it has my support.

This is nice to hear.

Sasha.

On 3/16/20 4:04 PM, Les De Ridder wrote:
> On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 19:58:20 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 19:36:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 3/16/2020 9:15 AM, bachmeier wrote:
>>>> "Have an online conference" isn't especially helpful. There haven't been any detailed proposals, and Walter hasn't said anything one way or the other about doing something online.
>>>
>>> Anyone who wants to step up and take charge of it has my support.
>>
>> Same here.
> 
> We could use Jitsi[1]. It's video conferencing software that works on
> all common platforms (including browser through WebRTC), and supports
> screen sharing/presentations, it has a recording feature, and it also
> has text chat and moderation features.
> 
> [1] https://jitsi.org/
> 

I think I can say that the issues facing us for having an online conference aren't of a technical nature. There are tons of solutions we can look at, many of them free.

What we really need is someone who can organize the thing.

I'd definitely be down for attending and/or presenting, but probably not organizing.

I will say this, I think we should at LEAST have a hackathon on a Saturday as planned, and just set up a discord server for communication or use slack (does slack support audio channels?).

-Steve

On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 20:56:41 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> ...and just set up a discord server for communication or use slack (does slack support audio channels?).

Please if this happen, let's choose free (Open Source) tools and preferably without need of any installation.

Sasha.

On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 19:36:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/16/2020 9:15 AM, bachmeier wrote:
>> "Have an online conference" isn't especially helpful. There haven't been any detailed proposals, and Walter hasn't said anything one way or the other about doing something online.
>
> Oh, I'm quite in favor of an online conference. Anyone who wants to step up and take charge of it has my support.

Working on it. A few people have contacted me with offers of advice and support. Should have something to announce in a few weeks.

On 3/16/20 5:00 PM, SashaGreat wrote:
> On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 20:56:41 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> ...and just set up a discord server for communication or use slack (does slack support audio channels?).
> 
> Please if this happen, let's choose free (Open Source) tools and preferably without need of any installation.

Both slack and discord are accessible via web without installation. At least on discord, the audio channels are there too.

-Steve

On 3/16/2020 12:36 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Oh, I'm quite in favor of an online conference. Anyone who wants to step up and take charge of it has my support.

Everyone, I've started a new thread for an online DConf. Please post there instead of here. Thanks!