On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 18:54:40 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 17:04:46 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:
On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 11:54:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
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.
It "pre-supposes" nothing, points like yours are specifically
addressed:
"But all of that media can’t really replace the socializing,
networking, and simply fun that happened as part of (or
sometimes despite) the conference formula."
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.
I don't, I think it would be a huge improvement. There are
very few benefits to getting people together in person in our
hyperconnected age, and while "key developers in the same
place" may be one of those, that excludes almost everybody
else at DConf.
Honestly, getting everybody together in a room and having
them stare straight ahead at a speaker is a blindingly stupid
waste of time these days. The only advantage of everybody
being together in a room is the heightened communication
bandwidth, and then you all sit next to each other staring
straight ahead silently. The conference format made sense
when pretty much everybody attending didn't have high-speed
internet and connected video displays decades ago, but they
make no sense now, as that blog post notes.
Actually the network speed in China is not satisfied in some
extent, and that of Korea and Japan are much better.
What about Hong Kong?
Actually Taiwan is preferred when compare with Hong Kong:).
