I am happy to announce that there will be a special addition to this year's DConf.

    The conference will not end after the three days of talks but continue on into Sunday for a hackathon during which people can collaboratively focus on long-lasting problems and pain points in the D ecosystem. Of course, any D hackers who wish to simply progress their own personal projects are welcome too! Sociomantic has once again been an amazing host and reserved the same venue (Heimathafen) for this day as well.

   The motivation for adding a D ecosystem hackathon (besides having fun) is that a lot of time is wasted due to communication latency because most people can only hack during the night or weekends. At last year’s DConf, the “birds of feather” groups were intended to reduce this communication problem, but sadly the scheduling didn’t quite provide enough time. Thus, the DConf 2017 hackathon isn't a hackathon in the tradition sense as most of the time and focus will hopefully be spent discussing, planning and developing future D projects.

    More details will follow shortly and will be announced here and on dconf.org

I'll be there. Looking forward to it!

On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 13:17:02 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote:
>      I am happy to announce that there will be a special addition to this
> year's DConf.
>
>      The conference will not end after the three days of talks but
> continue on into Sunday for a hackathon during which people can
> collaboratively focus on long-lasting problems and pain points in the D
> ecosystem. Of course, any D hackers who wish to simply progress their own
> personal projects are welcome too! Sociomantic has once again been an
> amazing host and reserved the same venue (Heimathafen) for this day as
> well.
>
>     The motivation for adding a D ecosystem hackathon (besides having fun)
> is that a lot of time is wasted due to communication latency because most
> people can only hack during the night or weekends. At last year’s DConf,
> the “birds of feather” groups were intended to reduce this communication
> problem, but sadly the scheduling didn’t quite provide enough time. Thus,
> the DConf 2017 hackathon isn't a hackathon in the tradition sense as most
> of the time and focus will hopefully be spent discussing, planning and
> developing future D projects.
>
>      More details will follow shortly and will be announced here and on
> dconf.org

LOL. I booked my flight and hotel back in December, and my flight was for Sunday. Fortunately, after seeing this, I was able to change it, even if it wasn't free (though the flight was actually cheaper on Monday, so that took a bite out of the change fee). So, I guess that planning ahead cost me. :)

- Jonathan M Davis

On 2/14/2017 2:11 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> LOL. I booked my flight and hotel back in December, and my flight was for
> Sunday. Fortunately, after seeing this, I was able to change it, even if it
> wasn't free (though the flight was actually cheaper on Monday, so that took
> a bite out of the change fee). So, I guess that planning ahead cost me. :)

I'm sorry about that. The hackathon was a late addition. I'm glad you were able to fix the flight.

On 15/02/2017 10:17 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>     I am happy to announce that there will be a special addition to this
> year's DConf.
>
>     The conference will not end after the three days of talks but
> continue on into Sunday for a hackathon during which people can
> collaboratively focus on long-lasting problems and pain points in the D
> ecosystem. Of course, any D hackers who wish to simply progress their
> own personal projects are welcome too! Sociomantic has once again been
> an amazing host and reserved the same venue (Heimathafen) for this day
> as well.
>
>    The motivation for adding a D ecosystem hackathon (besides having
> fun) is that a lot of time is wasted due to communication latency
> because most people can only hack during the night or weekends. At last
> year’s DConf, the “birds of feather” groups were intended to reduce this
> communication problem, but sadly the scheduling didn’t quite provide
> enough time. Thus, the DConf 2017 hackathon isn't a hackathon in the
> tradition sense as most of the time and focus will hopefully be spent
> discussing, planning and developing future D projects.
>
>     More details will follow shortly and will be announced here and on
> dconf.org

Even though I'm not going, if anybody wants to work on getting an image library for Phobos going, get in touch with me please.
I will do my best to be available in any communication means (including IRC & Skype) during this time.

On 02/14/2017 01:17 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>     I am happy to announce that there will be a special addition to this
> year's DConf.

Can we have dconf.org updated with this please.

Ali

On 2017-02-15 22:19, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 02/14/2017 01:17 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>     I am happy to announce that there will be a special addition to this
>> year's DConf.
>
> Can we have dconf.org updated with this please.
>
> Ali
>
Don't know why this is not done directly, who is responsible for this nowadays?

I understand this is especially nice for the people who are physically there. But, is there any way to collaborate for those that are physically challenged (as in, not in the vicinity). A video stream, or an official open communication channel. I would love to follow the development.