On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 11:32:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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
A major difference between most conferences and DConf from my
perspective are things like the Hackathon etc. which makes it
more than just a conference, but more like a large social D event.
