On 29/06/2018 9:20 PM, Joakim wrote:
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:
Kenji has long since gone. He has been missed.
Mike would be a better candidate for organizing as he is in South Korea.
However some meetups first to get an idea of the numbers wouldn't be a
terrible idea.
