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/[email protected]
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.
