I'm happy to announce that DConf Online '24 is tentatively scheduled for March 16th & 17th, 2024. I should have the dates locked in for sure by the end of the year, at which time I'll publish the website and all the details.

What I know for certain at this moment is that we'll be doing things differently this time around. Everything will be happening in the live stream (no more switching browser tabs between the stream and the talks), and the Q & A sessions with the speakers will be better integrated with the stream (no more Jitsi Meet). I'm looking forward to upping our game a little bit this time around.

If you'd like to submit a talk for DConf Online, we're accepting submissions between now and January 14. If you've never presented for DConf Online, then your submission should be in the form of a short video presentation.

Your submission video should be either 1080p or 4K. The only frame rate requirement we have is a maximum of 60 fps.

The presentation should contain the details we need about the talk:

• What kind of prerecorded session you plan to present -- we're looking for standard slideshow talks, active coding tutorials, and program demos, and are open to creative ideas.
• How long you expect it to be -- we prefer sessions of about 20-30 minutes duration, but we can make exceptions if the content warrants it.
• What it's about - walk us through your concept of the session from start to finish.

Ideally, you'll present this as a slide show with your face in the bottom right or left corner of the screen. Your face doesn't need to be in either the submission or the final presentation, but it's our preferred format.

Please upload the video to a cloud storage service and send a shareable link to social@dlang.org. You should include the following text in your email:

• An abstract
• A bio blurb

If you've presented at DConf Online before, you can put all of this in text form.

All accepted speakers will receive some DConf Online '24 swag and a small gift in gratitude for their participation.

Also, we're open to ideas for events to hold once the regular talks are done. For example, Adam Ruppe has done a live coding session at each edition of DConf Online:

• 2020 - https://youtube.com/live/0VfXqRW0yQo
• 2021 - https://youtube.com/live/XuYcZPYWbKk
• 2022 - https://youtube.com/live/V6KFtzF2Hx8

And last year Brian Callahan put together a series of tutorial videos for a workshop.

So tell us about your projects, the problems you've solved with D, the algorithms you've applied, the process you went through in learning D, the first part of a talk that you'll want to continue later in the year at DConf '24, or anything you'd like to tell the world about your D experience.

I'm looking forward to your submissions! And speaking of DConf '24, it's quite likely I'll be putting out a call for submissions again before DConf Online takes place. So do consider submitting to both :-)