On Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 09:50:44 UTC, FeepingCreature
wrote:
On Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 04:01:43 UTC, Mike Parker
wrote:
On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 08:36:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I've received exactly one submission for DConf Online. Two
keynotes + one talk does not make a conference.
So this is the last call. The deadline has been extended to
Sunday, September 6 AOE. This makes or breaks the conference.
If we don't have enough talks submitted, it ain't happening.
I've gotten one more submission. We'll need more than that.
Let's go, folks!
hi
okay, if I'm literally the only one that's kind of problematic,
yeah. Let's see how it goes on Sunday.
I'd guess that ... like, either ultimately a structured online
conference just isn't something people are interested in or
think is useful, or the effort of recording videos poses too
much of a roadblock. You wouldn't think that flying to London
would be more effort than making a video, but it wouldn't
surprise me. Or right now maybe people are keeping their ideas
for the next in-person DConf, so if Corona keeps up we'd see
more talks next year.
You know what, let's ask. Anyone here who considered submitting
but didn't, would you share why not?
I might have done so, but the pandemic has increased my workload
so much that my major decisions now involve deciding which parts
of my job I can't do. Adding something else to the todo list is a
pre-pandemic concept.
That said, I will be recording videos that involve the use of D,
it's just that they'll be very specialized applications for my
grad students rather than some of interest to a general audience.
