On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 02:21:34 UTC, John Colvin wrote:

> 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.

$800 for round trip? Why can't I get that to Japan!!

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 18:55:03 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 02:21:34 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> $800 for round trip? Why can't I get that to Japan!!

From the UK or the US? Either way it's easily doable for well under $1000

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 18:55:03 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 02:21:34 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> $800 for round trip? Why can't I get that to Japan!!

I remember there was like $300 for a round trip which happened to have a stop in japan where I bought a kimono; But I was in Korea (and the military) at the time...

On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:19:32 +1100, Era Scarecrow <rtcvb32@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 18:55:03 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 02:21:34 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> $800 for round trip? Why can't I get that to Japan!!

QQ from Melbourne, Australia. I'm looking at $1100 - $1300 for the flight.

-- 
Derek Parnell

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 19:14:12 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> From the UK or the US? Either way it's easily doable for well under $1000

From Washington State USA, try doubling that. I'll look harder next time, but I jealous.

On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 15:55:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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

Hi,

As you may know, I'm not 100% sure I can come. I'll be sure of that in february. This is why I proposed only a 30 mins talk, so someone can back me up.

I'd be happy to have a talk on SDC and make the short talk longer but that sound not quite right for me to submit that right now given the situation.

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 11:02:37 UTC, mist wrote:
> 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?

There will be a conference in London. I have already talked to some people from UCL last year because almost all my professors (back from when I was studying at KCL) are now part of the CREST research team @ UCL ... More about CREST: http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/

Originally I was thinking about organising it in October 2012, but I am extremely busy lately so the plan failed. I did not even think about doing it this year though because of the DConf...

Anyway, I can almost guarantee that there will be a D conference in London at some point. And we (my friend from CREST and I) will try hard to make it more about D and related projects (say libraries) in computer science.

Regards

On 17 January 2013 09:27, Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 11:02:37 UTC, mist wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> There will be a conference in London. I have already talked to some people from UCL last year because almost all my professors (back from when I was studying at KCL) are now part of the CREST research team @ UCL ... More about CREST: http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/
>
> Originally I was thinking about organising it in October 2012, but I am extremely busy lately so the plan failed. I did not even think about doing it this year though because of the DConf...
>
> Anyway, I can almost guarantee that there will be a D conference in London at some point. And we (my friend from CREST and I) will try hard to make it more about D and related projects (say libraries) in computer science.
>
> Regards
>

I'll see if I can organise a pre-conference party in Brighton. :o)

-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';

On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 15:55:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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


Although I tend to do quite some posts, I am yet to fully make use of D, with most of my work in JVM/.NET languages and FP/C++ stuff in some private projects.

So sadly not much I can contribute.

As for attending, the costs are just too high for myself.

--
Paulo

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 21:19:33 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 18:55:03 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>>
>> $800 for round trip? Why can't I get that to Japan!!
>
> I remember there was like $300 for a round trip which happened to have a stop in japan where I bought a kimono; But I was in Korea (and the military) at the time...

That must have been in the 90s. I've been in Korea for 22 years now (lost my military discount on tickets long ago) and ticket prices right now are the highest I've ever seen them. I'm looking at $2400 for a round-trip to Atlanta next month and am seriously considering a flight with three layovers instead. Three years ago the same flight at the same time of year cost me $1600. I haven't looked into prices to Seattle yet as my schedule likely isn't going to allow a trip to DConf (unless I get extremely lucky).