On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 21:15:43 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
I've seen many prospective DConf speakers, both in private and
public communication, are overly concerned about traveling
costs. I thought I'd set the record straight about this.
Due to the successful kickstarter campaign, we have a budget
before we even published a program. Facebook has gladly agreed
to host the conference, thus eliminating quite a few costs.
That means we are in good shape with the budget.
That sounds good...
So please do this:
1. If you're considering giving a talk, DO prepare a submission
whether you live in the Bay Area or on Mars. A submission (see
http://dconf.org) is a title, an abstract (3-6 sentences), and
a bio. No full slides or writeup needed at this time! The worst
that could happen is your submission doesn't get accepted.
I haven't even started on mine until i know if i'm even giving
one/both of them; Although likely i'd want the slides/rough
presentation reviewed/glanced over by a critic.
...
So please let us worry about speakers' travel expenses and get
working on submitting good material. Let's not save budget at
the expense of the event itself. Quite literally the success of
DConf 2013 depends on you.
I do hope it's a very good conference :)
