Hello,


Walter and I are hard at work on reviewing DConf 2014 submissions.

We'd like to thank all of you who have submitted. There is not even one submission that we found sub-par or unacceptable.

That said, the sheer numbers force us to make hard decisions. Although each and every talk is of interest to the community, simple math tells us the acceptance rate will be under 50%.

So we'd like to thank all of our submitters and congratulate them for a great job. Please bear with us as we'll need to turn down about half of you.


Andrei

Great news! In a strange way. Perhaps we could encourage the people that are not accepted to make videos of their submissions by going to local universities and asking if they can do a talk there?

Would be an interesting way of promoting D and getting more video media onto the internet about D.



On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu < SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> Walter and I are hard at work on reviewing DConf 2014 submissions.
>
> We'd like to thank all of you who have submitted. There is not even one submission that we found sub-par or unacceptable.
>
> That said, the sheer numbers force us to make hard decisions. Although each and every talk is of interest to the community, simple math tells us the acceptance rate will be under 50%.
>
> So we'd like to thank all of our submitters and congratulate them for a great job. Please bear with us as we'll need to turn down about half of you.
>
>
> Andrei
>

On 2/16/2014 10:21 PM, Rory McGuire wrote:
> Great news! In a strange way. Perhaps we could encourage the people that are not
> accepted to make videos of their submissions by going to local universities and
> asking if they can do a talk there?
>
> Would be an interesting way of promoting D and getting more video media onto the
> internet about D.

I encourage all of them, accepted or not, to also submit their proposals to other conferences.

Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is already able to generate that much quality content for a yearly conference. Somewhat sad part is that a lot of good stuff won't be seen because simply publishing talks is not that encouraging as hitting DConf itself :)

There are some internal speculations about possibility to host smaller european counterpart of DConf at Sociomantic in other part of the year but have no idea if something will actually come out of it eventually.

On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 13:45:03 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is already able to generate that much quality content for a yearly conference. Somewhat sad part is that a lot of good stuff won't be seen because simply publishing talks is not that encouraging as hitting DConf itself :)
>
> There are some internal speculations about possibility to host smaller european counterpart of DConf at Sociomantic in other part of the year but have no idea if something will actually come out of it eventually.

Having a European conference would be great. Traveling to the US is very expensive, and there seems to be plenty of European D developers out there.

Dicebot píše v Po 17. 02. 2014 v 13:45 +0000:
> There are some internal speculations about possibility to host smaller european counterpart of DConf at Sociomantic in other part of the year but have no idea if something will actually come out of it eventually.

This would be great! I am unable to go to USA (too expansive and too far). But if some similar conference would be held in Europe I will be able to visit such event.

On 02/17/2014 12:18 AM, Walter Bright wrote:

> I encourage all of them, accepted or not, to also submit their proposals
> to other conferences.
>

Still in Silicon Valley but I think Code Camp is yet another conference D should be present at. Twelve tracks, hundreds of speakers and sessions:

  http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Track

Ali

On 2/17/2014 5:45 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is already able to
> generate that much quality content for a yearly conference. Somewhat sad part is
> that a lot of good stuff won't be seen because simply publishing talks is not
> that encouraging as hitting DConf itself :)

Sure, but there are a lot of programming conferences that are in dire need of good material. I strongly encourage everyone doing a speaking proposal, accepted or not, to also make proposals to those other conferences.


> There are some internal speculations about possibility to host smaller european
> counterpart of DConf at Sociomantic in other part of the year but have no idea
> if something will actually come out of it eventually.

I think that's a great idea!

At various academic conferences I have attended they have had "Poster Sessions" where instead of a formal stand up and talk people put up A0 posters.

The submitter then can stand around to field questions and deeper discussion from those interested.

Although A0 paper is a bit Old Worlde in this age. Maybe a bunch of screens to websites containing the "Poster" and slots when you can come around (physically or online) and chat to the author.

Many a talk I have been to would have seemed a lot better as a poster than a hour of my life.


I doubly like this ideas as, alas, I will not be able to attend DConf, but will gladly read online every poster submitted.



On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com>wrote:

> On 2/17/2014 5:45 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>
>> Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is already able
>> to
>> generate that much quality content for a yearly conference. Somewhat sad
>> part is
>> that a lot of good stuff won't be seen because simply publishing talks is
>> not
>> that encouraging as hitting DConf itself :)
>>
>
> Sure, but there are a lot of programming conferences that are in dire need of good material. I strongly encourage everyone doing a speaking proposal, accepted or not, to also make proposals to those other conferences.
>
>
>
>  There are some internal speculations about possibility to host smaller
>> european
>> counterpart of DConf at Sociomantic in other part of the year but have no
>> idea
>> if something will actually come out of it eventually.
>>
>
> I think that's a great idea!
>



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On 2/16/14, 10:55 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Walter and I are hard at work on reviewing DConf 2014 submissions.
>
> We'd like to thank all of you who have submitted. There is not even one
> submission that we found sub-par or unacceptable.
>
> That said, the sheer numbers force us to make hard decisions. Although
> each and every talk is of interest to the community, simple math tells
> us the acceptance rate will be under 50%.
>
> So we'd like to thank all of our submitters and congratulate them for a
> great job. Please bear with us as we'll need to turn down about half of
> you.
>
>
> Andrei

You could put a section called "Lightning Talks" that last for about as long as you want (between half an hour and an hour is good), giving each participant 5 minutes to talk about their stuff. At least in the lasts RubyConf Argentina and Uruguay they had them.

It's not much time, but:

1. It gives those who couldn't talk for more time at least 5 minutes to show what they are working on.
2. It allows them to show links, so that interested people can later follow their work.
3. It's a fun section of a conference because its fast-paced and the audience get to learn about many projects in a very short time.