On Sat, 2018-12-22 at 13:46 +0000, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > […] > Given that this conference format is dying off, is there any > explanation for why the D team wants to continue this antiquated > ritual? > > https://marco.org/2018/01/17/end-of-conference-era > http://subfurther.com/blog/2018/01/15/the-final-conf-down/ > https://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
[…] So iOS conferences are a dying form. Maybe because iOS is a dying form? Your evidence of the failure of the iOS community to confer is not evidence of the failure of the conference in other communities. Others have cited Rust and Go. I shall cite Python, Ruby, Groovy, Java, Kotlin, Clojure, Haskell, all of which have thriving programming language oriented conferences all over the world. Then there are the Linux conferences, GStreamer conferences, conference all about specific technologies rather than programming languages. And of course there is ACCU. There is much more evidence that the more or less traditional conference format serves a purpose for people, and are remaining very successful. Many of these conferences make good profits, so are commercially viable. Thus I reject the fundamental premise of your position that the conference format is dying off. It isn't. The proof is there. -- Russel. =========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
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