On Friday, June 29, 2018 10:50:52 Joakim via Digitalmars-d wrote: > I coincidentally just read this blog post, that summarizes a lot > of my thoughts against conferences and meetups: > > https://marco.org/2018/01/17/end-of-conference-era > > Maybe a good first step would be a mostly online DConf geared > towards Asian timezones? I could help out with arranging those > online talks.
That article seems to pre-suppose that the only benefit from conferences is the talks. A _lot_ of good comes from having a bunch of the key developers in the same place for a few days where they can talk in person. Some communities (e.g. the BSD community) even have developer meetings connected to conferences where they specifically put a bunch of developers in a room together to discuss stuff. The talks are valuable, but in some ways, those face-to-face interactions are worth far more than the talks. So, while there's certainly value in finding ways to get more talks online, I think that it would be a huge mistake to try and push for online stuff to replace physical conferences where developers actually interact with each other in person. - Jonathan M Davis
