On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 15:26:44 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 5/6/16 5:16 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:13:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Also: we're talking about the DConf 2017 location. Please share any
>>> initial thoughts!
>>>
>>
>> I think American east cost is a natural next location. Something like
>> New York/Washington/Boston/Montréal .
>>
>
> This works for me, as I live there :)
>
> My thoughts are, you want to do it in a place where a lot of D people live. I believe the reason why the Berlin conference is so popular is because so many people live in or around the area. It makes logical sense to choose again Berlin, and possibly west coast US. I have no idea who lives on the east coast, so it's hard to say if this is a good location.
>
> -Steve

Russia? There seem to be a lot of people in Russia that are interested in D.

On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 15:26:44 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
> My thoughts are, you want to do it in a place where a lot of D people live. I believe the reason why the Berlin conference is so popular is because so many people live in or around the area. It makes logical sense to choose again Berlin, and possibly west coast US. I have no idea who lives on the east coast, so it's hard to say if this is a good location.


I'm on the east coast, but relying on some data might be more informative, like compiler downloads by region or something.

As to enjoying DConf, I haven't watched any of the videos, but I looked at some of the slides. They don't seem to be in one place. The easiest way to find them has been from Andrei's reddit posts. A good goal for future conferences would be to have them all on the website before it starts.

On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:13:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> The atmosphere here is great, and I'm curious how it feels for those who are watching remotely. Is the experience good? What can we do better?

Without subtites I understand maybe 30% maximum, but I watched all. It was interesting.

Stream resolution was very low (maximum 400). I very hope that later will be available HQ records and very hope for subtitles (or just text versions. If no, then... So, I will make more effort to learn English faster).

Huge thanks for all, who made DConf2016.

On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:57:59 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:53:15 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Facebook have their European headquarters in Dublin. Maybe they'd be willing to sponsor DConf2017 (there are loads of other tech companies in Dublin). Flights from the U.S. to Ireland and back are very frequent.

Dublin has cheap direct flights from quite a few places in the US, as well as pretty much everywhere in europe.

On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 20:59:29 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:57:59 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:53:15 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Facebook have their European headquarters in Dublin. Maybe they'd be willing to sponsor DConf2017 (there are loads of other tech companies in Dublin). Flights from the U.S. to Ireland and back are very frequent.
>
> Dublin has cheap direct flights from quite a few places in the US, as well as pretty much everywhere in europe.

Yup, +1 for Dublin.

On 05/06/2016 04:13 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> The atmosphere here is great, and I'm curious how it feels for those who are watching remotely. Is the experience good? What can we do better?
> 
> Also: we're talking about the DConf 2017 location. Please share any initial thoughts!

For me it is quite simple - I will certainly visit it if it is in any place within Europe and will most likely skip one outside :)

On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:13:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> The atmosphere here is great, and I'm curious how it feels for those who are watching remotely. Is the experience good? What can we do better?

I also viewed from New Zealand, but I thought it was hard to view the images, and to see the persons face when they are talking. Sometimes the images were of the speaker standing on the stage at a distance.  Too much of the stream was black around the side of the speaker.  The best way to stream/record such a event of someone talking to slides, is a split image approach. Part of the image is a close up of the speaker, with good audio, and the rest of the image is on the presentation.  Later when its a Q&A this can change, so you can see the interaction with the audience.

Nick

On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 15:16:00 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> I think American east cost is a natural next location. Something like New York/Washington/Boston/Montréal .

We could host it at my house in northern NY!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watertown_(city),_New_York

On 5/7/16 2:46 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 15:16:00 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> I think American east cost is a natural next location. Something like
>> New York/Washington/Boston/Montréal .
>
> We could host it at my house in northern NY!
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watertown_(city),_New_York

I've been to Watertown. I'm pretty sure there will still be snow there in May...

-Steve

On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 00:51:39 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I've been to Watertown.

Amazing!

> I'm pretty sure there will still be snow there in May...

Oh, come on! It was actually pretty nice this week, we are in the 60's right now. Finally, April was kinda miserable.