In article <btnii9$2f79$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Matthew says...
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>> J Anderson wrote:
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>> > Marco A wrote:
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>> >> Would people be interested in creating a comp.lang.d usenet group to approximately correspond with the 1.0 release?

Would it be a good idea to try a test vote right here? We could ask everybody, including the people who don't usually write here, to cast a yes/no vote for their contribution to the c.l newsgroup?

"Georg Wrede" <Georg_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:btnkai$2i30$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> In article <bt0vff$17ev$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
> >"Mark T" <Mark_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message
> >> I really only have 1
> >> 1) That the D language version 1.0 is finalized and released in 2004.
> >I think it's pretty close. I'm finishing up what I hope will be the last
bit
> >of new features, and then it'll be bug fixing. D 1.0 will probably be the most powerful 1.0 language ever released!
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> I think that the notion about the closing window is valid. We might not see today what all will contribute to closing the window, but "just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get us".

I think you'll find that there are a lot more people with "hand" watching D than can be guessed from the NG participation.

I know that people are interested in the articles that Walter and I've been doing, and are also interested in the idea of The D Journal. If we make a go of it, we might spark interest and/or support in all manner of unimagined places.

Let's hope everyone can contribute ideas and articles over the next month or two, and we can start with a splash.

"Georg Wrede" <Georg_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:btnkm8$2imu$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> In article <btnii9$2f79$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Matthew says...
> >
> >> J Anderson wrote:
> >>
> >> > Marco A wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Would people be interested in creating a comp.lang.d usenet group to approximately correspond with the 1.0 release?
>
> Would it be a good idea to try a test vote right here? We could ask
everybody,
> including the people who don't usually write here, to cast a yes/no vote
for
> their contribution to the c.l newsgroup?

Sure. Why not?

But surely we're in for a 99+% response, aren't we?

"Damon Gray" <dontbotherasking@go.away.mr.bad.spammer.net> wrote in message news:3FFC641C.5030704@go.away.mr.bad.spammer.net...
>  If it doesn't work out digtalmars
> can put there news server into the larger usenet feed and then it can be
> added into google.

How does that work?

>I hope you're right, but it seems optimistic to me. Judging from the amount of heat Walter was copping a couple of months ago on c.l.c.m, there'd be quite a few Nos on D.

We don't have to advertize on c.l.c.m maybe comp.lang.misc plus the required ones

>I think we'd need a well coordinated countdown on the D NG, so that everyone who's inclined would not forget to add their vote.

I agree, it would be nice to see at least 250 votes in favor. It looks like low turn-out killed most of the above groups.

"KTC" <me@here.com> wrote in message news:bti7kk$bp7$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> If you can't make it into the Big-8, then you can of course create it
> in Alt.
> But I would say having it inside the Big-8 would be a lot better in
> promoting the language to the programming community as a whole...

I'm not too keen on the idea of an alt group. D belongs in comp.lang.d, and if that doesn't happen, we should keep it here until it does happen.

"Matthew" <matthew.hat@stlsoft.dot.org> wrote in message news:btnii9$2f79$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I think we'd need a well coordinated countdown on the D NG, so that
everyone
> who's inclined would not forget to add their vote.

I'd like to wait until after SDWest, and 1.0 is released (early March). That would give us our best shot.

Can someone setup a website where we could try a practice vote (essentially to see how many potential yes votes we have), of course people could vote more than once on a website.

For the real vote we could recruit friends and neighbors.

Matthew wrote:

>"Georg Wrede" <Georg_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message
>news:btnkm8$2imu$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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>>In article <btnii9$2f79$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Matthew says...
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>>>>J Anderson wrote:
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>>>>>Marco A wrote:
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>>>>>>Would people be interested in creating a comp.lang.d usenet group to
>>>>>>approximately correspond with the 1.0 release?
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>>Would it be a good idea to try a test vote right here? We could ask
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>everybody,
>  
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>>including the people who don't usually write here, to cast a yes/no vote
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>for
>  
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>>their contribution to the c.l newsgroup?
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>Sure. Why not?
>
>But surely we're in for a 99+% response, aren't we?
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>  
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We also need > 125 (factoring in JC's no vote estimate). So it'd be a good idea to see how many potential votes we'll get.

"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:btntg8$303u$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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> "KTC" <me@here.com> wrote in message
news:bti7kk$bp7$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > If you can't make it into the Big-8, then you can of course create it
> > in Alt.
> > But I would say having it inside the Big-8 would be a lot better in
> > promoting the language to the programming community as a whole...
>
> I'm not too keen on the idea of an alt group. D belongs in comp.lang.d,
and
> if that doesn't happen, we should keep it here until it does happen.

I won't be visiting alt.*.D.