Dear all,
   How about set up DConf Asia every year? As far as I know, there are a few D  programmers and fans in Asia, but DConf was traditionally held in U.S. or Germany before,so that it may be not convenient for them to take part in these celebrations.
   Today more and more programmers in Asia are embracing Open Source, and many technology conferences have their Asia version such like the just concluded LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen that has been held in Beijing for two years, and the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon will be held on Nov in Shanghai this year, and many Linux/BSD conferences for Kernel or Distributions have been held in Japan, Korea, and so on.
   For programming languages, PyCon APAC has been successfully held in many Asian
countries each year. And Gopher China has also been held for many years.
   So I wonder if DConf can be held in Asia will be sure to greatly expand the influence of D languages, and attract the eyes of the largest group of programmers in the world.
   All suggestions are welcome!

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:03:19 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:
> Dear all,
>    How about set up DConf Asia every year? As far as I know, there are a few D  programmers and fans in Asia, but DConf was traditionally held in U.S. or Germany before,so that it may be not convenient for them to take part in these celebrations.
>    Today more and more programmers in Asia are embracing Open Source, and many technology conferences have their Asia version such like the just concluded LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen that has been held in Beijing for two years, and the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon will be held on Nov in Shanghai this year, and many Linux/BSD conferences for Kernel or Distributions have been held in Japan, Korea, and so on.
>    For programming languages, PyCon APAC has been successfully held in many Asian
> countries each year. And Gopher China has also been held for many years.
>    So I wonder if DConf can be held in Asia will be sure to greatly expand the influence of D languages, and attract the eyes of the largest group of programmers in the world.
>    All suggestions are welcome!

I get the sense that the US and Germany have the largest amount of heavy D users, which is why all the DConfs so far have been held in those two countries. Three of the five largest D Meetup groups are in those countries:

https://www.meetup.com/topics/dpl/

However, Ali notes significant interest in his D book in China and Russia (also see updated stats later in that thread):

https://forum.dlang.org/post/oarr8l$19rh$1@digitalmars.com

Japan may be in third place for heavy users, as Kenji Hara and a few others are significant contributors, and they certainly tweet about dlang:

https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/dlang

It may be a good forward-looking move to hold one of the next two or three DConfs in Japan or Hong Kong, perhaps working with Laeeth and the Hong Kong Meetup group.

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:20:55 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:03:19 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>    How about set up DConf Asia every year? As far as I know, there are a few D  programmers and fans in Asia, but DConf was traditionally held in U.S. or Germany before,so that it may be not convenient for them to take part in these celebrations.
>>    Today more and more programmers in Asia are embracing Open Source, and many technology conferences have their Asia version such like the just concluded LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen that has been held in Beijing for two years, and the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon will be held on Nov in Shanghai this year, and many Linux/BSD conferences for Kernel or Distributions have been held in Japan, Korea, and so on.
>>    For programming languages, PyCon APAC has been successfully held in many Asian
>> countries each year. And Gopher China has also been held for many years.
>>    So I wonder if DConf can be held in Asia will be sure to greatly expand the influence of D languages, and attract the eyes of the largest group of programmers in the world.
>>    All suggestions are welcome!
>
> I get the sense that the US and Germany have the largest amount of heavy D users, which is why all the DConfs so far have been held in those two countries. Three of the five largest D Meetup groups are in those countries:
>
> https://www.meetup.com/topics/dpl/
>
> However, Ali notes significant interest in his D book in China and Russia (also see updated stats later in that thread):
>
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/oarr8l$19rh$1@digitalmars.com
>
> Japan may be in third place for heavy users, as Kenji Hara and a few others are significant contributors, and they certainly tweet about dlang:
>
> https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/dlang
>
> It may be a good forward-looking move to hold one of the next two or three DConfs in Japan or Hong Kong, perhaps working with Laeeth and the Hong Kong Meetup group.


Thanks for sharing these info!
Maybe China is also a good candidate:), as we know that Chinese companies like
PuTao(http://www.huntframework.com/) is using D for their production environment and has been contributed to many D open source projects.

On 29/06/2018 9:20 PM, Joakim wrote:
> On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:03:19 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>    How about set up DConf Asia every year? As far as I know, there are a few D  programmers and fans in Asia, but DConf was traditionally held in U.S. or Germany before,so that it may be not convenient for them to take part in these celebrations.
>>    Today more and more programmers in Asia are embracing Open Source, and many technology conferences have their Asia version such like the just concluded LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen that has been held in Beijing for two years, and the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon will be held on Nov in Shanghai this year, and many Linux/BSD conferences for Kernel or Distributions have been held in Japan, Korea, and so on.
>>    For programming languages, PyCon APAC has been successfully held in many Asian
>> countries each year. And Gopher China has also been held for many years.
>>    So I wonder if DConf can be held in Asia will be sure to greatly expand the influence of D languages, and attract the eyes of the largest group of programmers in the world.
>>    All suggestions are welcome!
> 
> I get the sense that the US and Germany have the largest amount of heavy D users, which is why all the DConfs so far have been held in those two countries. Three of the five largest D Meetup groups are in those countries:
> 
> https://www.meetup.com/topics/dpl/
> 
> However, Ali notes significant interest in his D book in China and Russia (also see updated stats later in that thread):
> 
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/oarr8l$19rh$1@digitalmars.com
> 
> Japan may be in third place for heavy users, as Kenji Hara and a few others are significant contributors, and they certainly tweet about dlang:

Kenji has long since gone. He has been missed.

Mike would be a better candidate for organizing as he is in South Korea.

However some meetups first to get an idea of the numbers wouldn't be a terrible idea.

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:03:19 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:

> How about set up DConf Asia every year?

I doubt there'd be any problem have DConf anywhere in the world as long is it is properly funded.  Who in Asia would be willing to sponsor it?

Mike

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:34:44 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
> On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:03:19 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:
>
>> How about set up DConf Asia every year?
>
> I doubt there'd be any problem have DConf anywhere in the world as long is it is properly funded.  Who in Asia would be willing to sponsor it?
>
> Mike

Yes, the Sponsors should be the major problem for holding DConf Asia.
I will try to collect the info if any Chinese programmer organizations
or companies are interested in it. Please people from other countries in
Asia help to do the similar thing if you are interested to hold the DConf
Asia in your country.
Let's refer to the history of PyCon APAC which has been successfully held
for many years, it was first held at the Singapore Management University by
some professors, and held among other countries or regions in Asia annually,
now PyCon APAC come back to Singapore(https://pycon.sg/) this year.

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:58:50 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:

> Yes, the Sponsors should be the major problem for holding DConf Asia.
> I will try to collect the info if any Chinese programmer organizations
> or companies are interested in it. Please people from other countries in
> Asia help to do the similar thing if you are interested to hold the DConf
> Asia in your country.
> Let's refer to the history of PyCon APAC which has been successfully held
> for many years, it was first held at the Singapore Management University by
> some professors, and held among other countries or regions in Asia annually,
> now PyCon APAC come back to Singapore(https://pycon.sg/) this year.

I can tell you that DConf Asia is something the Foundation is interested in. It's also something I plan to work toward making happen eventually. We discussed this at our Seoul meetup recently. What I need to know before anything can happen is how large the Chinese and Japanese D communities are.

I'm up to my eyeballs in work right now and had no plans to move on this until I finish off my current priorities, but if you're willing to help on the Chinese front, I'll do what I can to support you.

My email address is aldacron@gmail.com, so please feel free to contact me about this and we can discuss it.

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:03:19 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:
> Dear all,
>    How about set up DConf Asia every year? As far as I know, there are a few D  programmers and fans in Asia, but DConf was traditionally held in U.S. or Germany before,so that it may be not convenient for them to take part in these celebrations.
>    Today more and more programmers in Asia are embracing Open Source, and many technology conferences have their Asia version such like the just concluded LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen that has been held in Beijing for two years, and the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon will be held on Nov in Shanghai this year, and many Linux/BSD conferences for Kernel or Distributions have been held in Japan, Korea, and so on.
>    For programming languages, PyCon APAC has been successfully held in many Asian
> countries each year. And Gopher China has also been held for many years.
>    So I wonder if DConf can be held in Asia will be sure to greatly expand the influence of D languages, and attract the eyes of the largest group of programmers in the world.
>    All suggestions are welcome!

I would love a DConf in Asia.

Would give me a reason to travel there other than vacation :)

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 10:12:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>
> I can tell you that DConf Asia is something the Foundation is interested in. It's also something I plan to work toward making happen eventually. We discussed this at our Seoul meetup recently. What I need to know before anything can happen is how large the Chinese and Japanese D communities are.

I guess the best place to start is to organise meetups in the countries first to gauge interest and the size of the D community in those countries, and then there can be some communication between the local meetups aiming at organising a more regional DConf?

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 10:12:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 09:58:50 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:
>
>> Yes, the Sponsors should be the major problem for holding DConf Asia.
>> I will try to collect the info if any Chinese programmer organizations
>> or companies are interested in it. Please people from other countries in
>> Asia help to do the similar thing if you are interested to hold the DConf
>> Asia in your country.
>> Let's refer to the history of PyCon APAC which has been successfully held
>> for many years, it was first held at the Singapore Management University by
>> some professors, and held among other countries or regions in Asia annually,
>> now PyCon APAC come back to Singapore(https://pycon.sg/) this year.
>
> I can tell you that DConf Asia is something the Foundation is interested in. It's also something I plan to work toward making happen eventually. We discussed this at our Seoul meetup recently. What I need to know before anything can happen is how large the Chinese and Japanese D communities are.
>
> I'm up to my eyeballs in work right now and had no plans to move on this until I finish off my current priorities, but if you're willing to help on the Chinese front, I'll do what I can to support you.
>
> My email address is aldacron@gmail.com, so please feel free to contact me about this and we can discuss it.

Thank you very much!