On Thursday, 22 November 2012 at 22:35:35 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 11/21/2012 5:33 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
Hello all,
Now that we know that DConf 2013 is going to happen
(congratulations and thanks
to everyone!), I had a thought about how it might be possible
to give some extra
involvement to those who can't physically make it on this
occasion.
Since there are already plans for the whole conference to be
videoed, how about
also making it possible for non-attendees to submit video
presentations? These
could be made available via the conference website together
with comment threads
where the presenters could get feedback and discuss their work.
A second possibility would be to allow people (whether
attending or not) to
submit proceedings articles. If there's an interest in this,
and in seeing them
officially published (preferably in an open access venue), I
can put out some
queries to colleagues in academic publishing to see if we can
find a nice solution.
What does everyone think? The only doubt I have is that it
might tip the
balance in favour of non-attendance for some people who are
sitting on the fence
right now.
If people want to submit videos and articles, yes, we can get
them published on the conference site. I hadn't thought about a
proceedings publication, but perhaps that can be done as an
ebook.
I agree. This would be an interesting way to get a slightly more
formal insight in to the D community than the newsgroup and IRC.
Perhaps if some of the corporate/business guys were encouraged to
write something about their perspectives on D, that would be
particularly good.
