DConf 2016 announces programme, general registration opened thrugh April 22

We have received many excellent submissions for DConf 2016, which made the selection process difficult. After long deliberations, the organizing committee is happy to announce we have a strong program featuring a mix of tutorials, advanced informational talks, experience reports, panels, and interviews that we hope would be of broad interest not within the D milieu, but also for prospective users and the broader software engineering community. Refer to http://dconf.org/2016/schedule for the full conference schedule.

The conference track contains 18 speakers, including the D language creator Walter Bright, language architect Andrei Alexandrescu, and D's build and release czar Martin Nowak. Leandro Lucarella will deliver a keynote covering the use of D at Sociomantic, a high-powered display advertising company built entirely on the D language. A combination of well-known and up-and-coming speakers completes the mix, check http://dconf.org/2016/speakers for details.

We encourage participation to DConf 2016 of all interested. Past edition attendees know that in addition to the excellent "official" technical content, the value multiplier of the conference is direct access to, and interaction with, colleagues, speakers, and luminaries of the industry. Attendance has doubled in size this edition, so gear up for three days of mind-blowing information, inspiration, and excitement.

Hope to see you there! Registration will be open through April 22, 2016 but please hurry up as we might start pushing against venue limits soon.

Organizers

Walter Bright, The D Language Foundation
Ali Çehreli, The D Language Foundation, Riverbed
Andrei Alexandrescu, The D Language Foundation
Mihails Strasuns, Sociomantic

In social media: https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/714491383357112321 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/1261786503835028 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4cawu2/dconf_2016_announces_programme_general/ Andrei

On Monday, 28 March 2016 at 16:34:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > The Fourth Annual Conference of the D Programming Language: DConf 2016 > > May 4 to May 6, 2016 > > Berlin, Germany > > http://dconf.org/2016/ Awesome. Is there an official hotel yet?

On 3/28/16 12:55 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: > On Monday, 28 March 2016 at 16:34:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> The Fourth Annual Conference of the D Programming Language: DConf 2016 >> >> May 4 to May 6, 2016 >> >> Berlin, Germany >> >> http://dconf.org/2016/ > > Awesome. > > Is there an official hotel yet? > http://dconf.org/2016/venue.html At the bottom. http://www.ibis.com/gb/hotel-5694-ibis-berlin-neukoelln/index.shtml -Steve

On 3/28/16, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > The Fourth Annual Conference of the D Programming Language: DConf 2016 Looks like an amazing line-up!

On Monday, 28 March 2016 at 16:34:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > DConf 2016 Looks like a great lineup of talks this year! I intend to watch almost all of them. The "What Parnas72 Means for D" talk sounds interesting, but I think it needs an abstract for the abstract, or a TL;DR.

On Monday, 28 March 2016 at 20:33:37 UTC, tsbockman wrote: > The "What Parnas72 Means for D" talk sounds interesting, but I think it needs an abstract for the abstract, or a TL;DR. That was the "Extended Description" that I had submitted. The original "Abstract" section read: David Parnas' 1972 seminal paper, "On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules", set a milestone in our collective understanding of how complex programs should be divided into more manageable parts. Over forty years later, I have reimplemented in D the example programs presented in the paper and came away with insights that are not obvious from a more casual reading of that text. In this talk I will 1) present the original insight of the paper, using more modern language; 2) relate it to current design best practices and 3) argue, with the help of my implementation, that D best fulfilled the paper's original vision, even surpassing it.

On Monday, 28 March 2016 at 22:30:33 UTC, Luís Marques wrote: > On Monday, 28 March 2016 at 20:33:37 UTC, tsbockman wrote: >> The "What Parnas72 Means for D" talk sounds interesting, but I think it needs an abstract for the abstract, or a TL;DR. > > That was the "Extended Description" that I had submitted. The original "Abstract" section read: > > David Parnas' 1972 seminal paper, "On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules", set a milestone in our collective understanding of how complex programs should be divided into more manageable parts. Over forty years later, I have reimplemented in D the example programs presented in the paper and came away with insights that are not obvious from a more casual reading of that text. In this talk I will 1) present the original insight of the paper, using more modern language; 2) relate it to current design best practices and 3) argue, with the help of my implementation, that D best fulfilled the paper's original vision, even surpassing it. Yes, that looks good. That's what should be on the DConf website.

I just realized today that a live stream is not going to be enjoyable for us who are still in the US. Any chance that we can have a *scheduled* delay rebroadcast right when it ends? So basically starting at like 11am Eastern time, 8am Pacific. Heck, we might even play it a third time for people on the other side of the world too, but I'm asking for myself so jut the ne is good. I want this coordinated and announced because then we can all be on together and have "live" chat without being up in the middle of the night to be live with the folks in Germany.

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