We're stoked about DConf 2014! 54 visitors will be joined by 10 Facebook engineers for a great three-day event.

James Pearce (https://twitter.com/jamespearce), Facebook's Open Source representative, graciously accepted to emcee the conference.

We have secured livestreaming of the entire event. I'll be glad to take questions on Twitter in real time during my keynote, Wendnesday May 21, 9:00-10:00 AM PST. Send your questions to @D_Programming with hashtag #dconf.

Tolga Cakiroglu put together a beautiful T-shirt design - even our recruiters and the folks at the printing company were impressed.

We're also happy to announce that Facebook will throw a Happy Hour with food and drinks on Thursday, May 22, between 5:30 and 7:30 PM.

We haven't yet filled the Lightning Talks (http://dconf.org/2014/talks/lightning.html), please send me a note if you're interested in talking for 5-10 minutes on anything you believe is interesting and relevant.


See you soon!

Andrei

On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 17:16:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> We're stoked about DConf 2014! 54 visitors will be joined by 10 Facebook engineers for a great three-day event.
>
> James Pearce (https://twitter.com/jamespearce), Facebook's Open Source representative, graciously accepted to emcee the conference.
>
> We have secured livestreaming of the entire event. I'll be glad to take questions on Twitter in real time during my keynote, Wendnesday May 21, 9:00-10:00 AM PST. Send your questions to @D_Programming with hashtag #dconf.
>
> Tolga Cakiroglu put together a beautiful T-shirt design - even our recruiters and the folks at the printing company were impressed.

This is very good news, I will follow that with great interest !

Can we have a look at the t-shirt design ? I also would be very glad if I can buy/print one to show my banner ;)

Any specific instructions for the speakers, are people meeting up in the Aloft beforehand somewhere, or do I just turn up to Facebook, say "DConf" and it'll be fine?

Atila


On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 17:16:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> We're stoked about DConf 2014! 54 visitors will be joined by 10 Facebook engineers for a great three-day event.
>
> James Pearce (https://twitter.com/jamespearce), Facebook's Open Source representative, graciously accepted to emcee the conference.
>
> We have secured livestreaming of the entire event. I'll be glad to take questions on Twitter in real time during my keynote, Wendnesday May 21, 9:00-10:00 AM PST. Send your questions to @D_Programming with hashtag #dconf.
>
> Tolga Cakiroglu put together a beautiful T-shirt design - even our recruiters and the folks at the printing company were impressed.
>
> We're also happy to announce that Facebook will throw a Happy Hour with food and drinks on Thursday, May 22, between 5:30 and 7:30 PM.
>
> We haven't yet filled the Lightning Talks (http://dconf.org/2014/talks/lightning.html), please send me a note if you're interested in talking for 5-10 minutes on anything you believe is interesting and relevant.
>
>
> See you soon!
>
> Andrei

On Monday, 19 May 2014 at 16:25:01 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> Any specific instructions for the speakers, are people meeting up in the Aloft beforehand somewhere, or do I just turn up to Facebook, say "DConf" and it'll be fine?


+1 especially since I'll probably be coming in somewhat late (likely about 10:00ish) on Friday

On 5/19/14, Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> Any specific instructions for the speakers, are people meeting up in the Aloft beforehand somewhere, or do I just turn up to Facebook, say "DConf" and it'll be fine?

You need to say the secret keyword at the door. Or alternatively bring
doughnuts (in the D shape).

On Mon, 19 May 2014 12:24:59 -0400, Atila Neves <atila.neves@gmail.com> wrote:

> Any specific instructions for the speakers, are people meeting up in the Aloft beforehand somewhere, or do I just turn up to Facebook, say "DConf" and it'll be fine?

You didn't get your all-access backstage pass yet? Mine came 2 weeks ago. You should probably email Andrei.

On a serious note, I remember last year there was an interesting disconnect between people's real names and their "online" names. I spoke with numerous people for quite a while before I realized who they really are (I'm looking at you, deadalnix)

Would it be possible to have a separate space on the nametags for "handles"?

-Steve

On 5/19/14, 9:24 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
> Any specific instructions for the speakers, are people meeting up in the
> Aloft beforehand somewhere, or do I just turn up to Facebook, say
> "DConf" and it'll be fine?

Please drive to Facebook's address (1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025). Once you turn to campus, follow signs to Building 15. Once at the building entrance, go to the folks at security and say "DConf 2014". You'll sign a standard NDA to enter the campus. A person will accompany you to the conference room.

Andrei

On Monday, 19 May 2014 at 17:18:27 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Would it be possible to have a separate space on the nametags for "handles"?
>
> -Steve

Hello, my name is INIGO MONTOYA YOU KILLED MY FATHER, PREPARE TO DIE

On 5/19/14, Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 19 May 2014 at 17:18:27 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Would it be possible to have a separate space on the nametags for "handles"?
>>
>> -Steve
>
> snip

It's going to be funny seeing:

"Walter Bright"
"a.k.a. Walter Bright"

On a related note, when I was a youngen and was just discovering internet chat my nickname was... wait for it... "the_andrej".

And believe it or not, there was a chatters hangout in real-life once and I actually wore this name tag. It was a proper metal tag with embedded (carved out) letters too. Good times..

On 5/19/2014 11:11 AM, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> "Walter Bright"
> "a.k.a. Walter Bright"

That just caused a stack overflow in my brain. Had to reboot it.