Well, I've been more than a little lax in following through on my conference coordinator duties.  My apologies.  The good news is that I've finally got dates:  Monday-Wednesday, August 4-6 2008.

First major todo, line up speakers.  So, if you'd like to give a talk, please send me email (braddr@puremagic.com) with a brief description of what you want to talk about and how much time you think you'd like (aim for somewhere between 30 and 90 minutes).

I'm planning a similar format to last year with two days of talks and one day for collaborative development and/or open discussion.

More as developments unfold.  I'll be putting up the registration pages once I've gotten at least enough speakers to fill a day to make sure there's enough to build a conference out of.

Thanks,
Brad

PS:  No, I haven't forgotten about the videos from last year, sigh. Latest promise is for friday (THIS friday).

(followups to digitalmars.D)

Brad Roberts wrote:
> Well, I've been more than a little lax in following through on my
> conference coordinator duties.  My apologies.  The good news is that
> I've finally got dates:  Monday-Wednesday, August 4-6 2008.

YAHHHHHH!!!!! <G size="huge"/>

> 
> First major todo, line up speakers.  So, if you'd like to give a talk,
> please send me email (braddr@puremagic.com) with a brief description of
> what you want to talk about and how much time you think you'd like (aim
> for somewhere between 30 and 90 minutes).
> 

If I can get out there (huge if)I might be able to put something together. But I'm not committing to anything, yet. However I think it would be more of a 5-10 "here is something cool I'm working on" kind of thing. Any way you could put out a category for those and string 5-6 of them together?

> PS:  No, I haven't forgotten about the videos from last year, sigh.
> Latest promise is for friday (THIS friday).

<joking>And we'll have fusion in another 10 years.</joking>

good to hear.

== Quote from Brad Roberts (braddr@puremagic.com)'s article
> Well, I've been more than a little lax in following through on my conference coordinator duties.  My apologies.  The good news is that I've finally got dates:  Monday-Wednesday, August 4-6 2008.

Very cool!  I won't be able to attend this year, but I'm looking forward to catching up on the presentations afterwards.  The conference last year was quite fun.


Sean

Brad Roberts wrote:
> First major todo, line up speakers.  So, if you'd like to give a talk,
> please send me email (braddr@puremagic.com) with a brief description of
> what you want to talk about and how much time you think you'd like (aim
> for somewhere between 30 and 90 minutes).

Sign me up, of course!

> If I can get out there (huge if)I might be able to put something together. But I'm not committing to anything, yet. However I think it would be more of a 5-10 "here is something cool I'm working on" kind of thing. Any way you could put out a category for those and string 5-6 of them together?

I'm sure you'll understand that I won't be reserving a time slot for a non-commitment. :)

That said, I'm not super opposed to one session of rapid-fire 5 minute
'see what I did' talks, as long as they're informative and interesting.
 And, sigh, I guess I have to be the judge of that.  However, I'd much
rather aim for meaty talks, since those sorts of 5 minute short talks
are roughly the equivalent of putting up a web page and saying 'look at
this'.

Later,
Brad

[offtopic]
Just visited D download page (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html)

Looks like someone's date/time settings are wrong, page was last updated /next/ week :)
"Last update Fri Mar 7 10:59:27 2008"
[/offtopic]

Brad Roberts wrote:
>> If I can get out there (huge if)I might be able to put something
>> together. But I'm not committing to anything, yet. However I think it
>> would be more of a 5-10 "here is something cool I'm working on" kind of
>> thing. Any way you could put out a category for those and string 5-6 of
>> them together?
>
> I'm sure you'll understand that I won't be reserving a time slot for a
> non-commitment. :)
>
> That said, I'm not super opposed to one session of rapid-fire 5 minute
> 'see what I did' talks, as long as they're informative and interesting.
>  And, sigh, I guess I have to be the judge of that.  However, I'd much
> rather aim for meaty talks, since those sorts of 5 minute short talks
> are roughly the equivalent of putting up a web page and saying 'look at
> this'.

At last years RubyConf they organized in the evening the so-called
RejectConf. The one with the shortest "talk" (the first took just one
minute) was allowed to talk first. Then the second-shortest and so on.
This turned out to be *really* interesting. And note that you don't have
to plan anything up front (both you and the presenter :).

Just my 5 cents.

Regards,

  Michael

"Koroskin Denis" <2korden@gmail.com> wrote in message news:op.uafq4qmxenyajd@proton.creatstudio.intranet...
> [offtopic]
> Just visited D download page (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html)
>
> Looks like someone's date/time settings are wrong, page was last updated
> /next/ week :)
> "Last update Fri Mar 7 10:59:27 2008"
> [/offtopic]

Oh crap, that's right!  It's going to be March next week!

...

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"Brad Roberts" <braddr@puremagic.com> wrote in message news:fv8sf0$2n9r$1@digitalmars.com...
> (followups to digitalmars.D)

US of A or Europe this time? :)

Reply to dominik,

> "Brad Roberts" <braddr@puremagic.com> wrote in message
> news:fv8sf0$2n9r$1@digitalmars.com...
> 
>> (followups to digitalmars.D)
>> 
> US of A or Europe this time? :)
> 

seattle I'd assume as walter and brad are both there