Hello everyone,


We're a couple of weeks inside the Call for Submissions for DConf 2013, and so far we have collected a few strong proposals but indeed only a few.

I would like to extend an appeal to the talented participants on this newsgroup to consider making a talk proposal. At this point there's a dearth of submissions, which is paradoxical considering the high numbers and quality of the community leaders.

When thinking of a submission, consider that you'd address an audience outside and removed from the daily pulse going on in the forum. You may assume most nobody in the audience has read the group, articles you or others wrote, or has a solid understanding of the language's subtleties. Therefore it's very easy to think "meh, I don't have anything interesting to share - they all know this stuff as well as I do, if not better!" and is a common phenomenon in confined circles (research lab would be another example).

If you ever wrote an article on D, consider it an already done presentation that just needs translation into slides. There's little extra effort needed.

If you're one of the main contributors to the language and its standard library, you are virtually socially obligated to submit a talk proposal. People will come to hear your insights.

If you're a regular D user, the unique demands and characteristics of your project are likely to be of interest.

So I compel you to consider making at least one submission. We have a budget, sponsors, a wonderful site - it would be supremely ironic if the program was our weak spot. If you are a regular D contributor, consider yourself as responsible as anyone for the success of DConf. But I also expect to hear (and indeed already have, thank you) from people I'd never heard from before.


Thanks,

Andrei

I'd also like to mention that now video recordings are planned and thus actual audience is a lot wider than just conference visitors.

On 1/15/13 11:00 AM, mist wrote:
> I'd also like to mention that now video recordings are planned and thus
> actual audience is a lot wider than just conference visitors.

Thanks! I meant to mention this when starting the message but forgot. It is our opportunity, privilege, and obligation to address a worldwide audience and get it interested in D. Let's make good use of it.

Andrei

What's the daily schedule of the conference look like? Is it a 9-5 deal each day?

On 1/15/13 4:01 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> What's the daily schedule of the conference look like? Is it a 9-5 deal
> each day?

Yes, and we'll probably have a reception dinner one night.

Andrei

On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 15:55:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello everyone,
[snip]
>
> Andrei

I have a few ideas of some talks e.g.

a 5-10 min beginners crash course on eponymous templates in d,

a short talk discussing the easy speedups of simple scientific codes using std.conurrency, std.parallelism and vector operations etc. and comparing them to their (at least visually) hideous and often non-portable equivalents in c.


The problem is, I live in the UK. It would cost upwards of $800 for flights alone, which is way outside the sort of money I can afford to spend at the moment, so I don't see it happening. As a future note, east coast USA would be a lot easier for us Europeans.

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 02:21:34 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 15:55:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
> [snip]
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I have a few ideas of some talks e.g.
>
> a 5-10 min beginners crash course on eponymous templates in d,
>
> a short talk discussing the easy speedups of simple scientific codes using std.conurrency, std.parallelism and vector operations etc. and comparing them to their (at least visually) hideous and often non-portable equivalents in c.
>
>
> The problem is, I live in the UK. It would cost upwards of $800 for flights alone, which is way outside the sort of money I can afford to spend at the moment, so I don't see it happening. As a future note, east coast USA would be a lot easier for us Europeans.

P.S. I realise there is an international overflow budget, but there are a lot more important people who might need that!

One day, we could organize a D conference in Europe :)

There seem to be a good number of people from Europe here.

On 2013-01-16 11:42, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
> One day, we could organize a D conference in Europe :)
>
> There seem to be a good number of people from Europe here.

There has already been one, the Tango conference in Poland, 2008. It was enough people to become a conference.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 10:42:56 UTC, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
> One day, we could organize a D conference in Europe :)
>
> There seem to be a good number of people from Europe here.

Please do! :) Btw do we have someone from European D community here, who is familiar with conference organization nitpicks and can guide interested ones?