On 11/27/13 6:37 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas. :) I could probably answer
>> questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk
>> about
>> on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...
>
> I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: What
> qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?". Have honestly answered
> "Nothing" and closed the page. :)
>
> Will try my best to get there as a visitor this time though.

You didn't read through the end: Although this criterion favors experienced and well-known submitters, we also very strongly encourage submissions from up-and-coming contributors who have accumulated "street cred" through their open source and forum contributions.


Andrei

Andrei Alexandrescu, el 27 de November a las 09:46 me escribiste:
> On 11/27/13 6:37 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> >On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> >>And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas. :) I could probably answer
> >>questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk
> >>about
> >>on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...
> >
> >I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: What qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?". Have honestly answered "Nothing" and closed the page. :)
> >
> >Will try my best to get there as a visitor this time though.
> 
> You didn't read through the end: Although this criterion favors experienced and well-known submitters, we also very strongly encourage submissions from up-and-coming contributors who have accumulated "street cred" through their open source and forum contributions.

Some really great talks in the previous conference were given by people than never gave a talk before ;)

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On 11/27/2013 8:04 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> On 11/27/2013 11:37 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>>
>> I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: What
>> qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?". Have honestly answered
>> "Nothing" and closed the page. :)
>>
>> Will try my best to get there as a visitor this time though.
>
> I'm sure your standing in the community and your experience with the language
> would be qualification enough. I think, in your particular case, you shouldn't
> let that one field discourage you from submitting :)

I agree.

On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 14:37:11 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas. :) I could probably answer
>> questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk about
>> on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...
>
> I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: What qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?". Have honestly answered "Nothing" and closed the page. :)
>
> Will try my best to get there as a visitor this time though.

Wrong way of thinking, IMHO - most people who do talks on conferences are not the superexperts on some field... Furthermore, sometimes people are less qualified do better talks as they focus more on "presenting" something to the audience. So you do not have to be superqualified, but you have to:
1) like the thing you are presenting
2) be good at presenting

Cheers!

On 11/27/2013 09:25 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> I could probably answer questions about D all day, but
>> coming up with something useful to talk about on my own
>> never seems to be as easy as it should be...
>
> Me too. I was asked to write a D book recently, and to make the list of
> topics, I just looked over the forums and stack overflow questions to
> see what people were asking about...

Congratulations!
Looking forward to that book.

On 11/27/2013 06:44 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas.:)  I could probably answer
> questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk about
> on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...

Give a talk about std.datetime.
I think that could produce really good teaching material on how to use the module. Also you could explain in more detail when to use the different types and what else can be done with the module (or package ;)).

On 12/5/13 6:34 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 11/27/2013 06:44 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas.:)  I could probably answer
>> questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk
>> about
>> on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...
>
> Give a talk about std.datetime.
> I think that could produce really good teaching material on how to use
> the module. Also you could explain in more detail when to use the
> different types and what else can be done with the module (or package ;)).

"Design patterns derived from std.datetime" would be interesting (all that discussion on exceptions, data validation etc).

Andrei

On 2013-12-05 17:18, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> "Design patterns derived from std.datetime" would be interesting (all
> that discussion on exceptions, data validation etc).

Discussing that over a couple of beers could get interesting :)

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On 12/6/2013 3:59 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-12-05 17:18, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> "Design patterns derived from std.datetime" would be interesting (all
>> that discussion on exceptions, data validation etc).
>
> Discussing that over a couple of beers could get interesting :)
>
 Only a couple?

On 2013-12-06 09:35, Mike Parker wrote:

>   Only a couple?

I never said how big they are :)

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