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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 13:33:29 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Brilliant, DConf comes to the UK, I can get to it… except… it's on at the exact same time as DevoxxUK 2019 which is at the Business Design Centre. :-( Programming languages are unimportant anyway.
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On Friday, 28 December 2018 at 16:31:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 28 December 2018 at 07:08:19 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: While I admire your persistence I fail to understand why you simply don't ignore stuff you do not like. If you do not like conferences fine - do not go there, and let us who do like them and think they are useful have some fun! Some of us want to improve things for everyone else, too. Isn't that what open source is all about? We do it initially because it works for us, but then share it because it helps the community as well. If you actually tried these improvements, you'd probably like them. Even our conservative managers at the day job have responded positively to similar changes we made over the last year. Etc... Just to make it clear - I do not say I am against some other formats, web conferences, digital meetups, or whatever. I am just saying that there are people who still prefer DConf as it is (was). If a group of D enthusiasts want to try something else, by all means do it! But do not try to be a partybreaker like Joakim and whenever someone mentions DConf he starts talking crap... I see absolutely NO problem at all if there is a regular DConf, and some other forms of communication that Joakim, or you, prefer! This said - can't wait to attend the DConf in the UK!
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On 12/28/18 11:31 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: But I'm telling you, DConf can learn from this stuff. Joakim is doing the community a service by trying to get you all to try some changes. Even baby step compromises can yield results at low risk. Note that the proposals always ask for format (talk, panel, contest, interpretive dance). So you can always propose a presentation that takes on a format that you think will be more useful. I think the biggest problem with Joakim's post was simply that it was phrased like `why do you want to have such a stupid ritual, when your money can be better spent doing something else?` Things went downhill from there. -Steve
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On Friday, 28 December 2018 at 16:31:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: For last year's meeting, my manager (the team I'm on has done our meetings differently for a while) convinced the CEO to try a more interactive approach for the org-wide meeting too. We did that speaker intro, small random group work, whole group conclusion pattern. It was a success. Everyone was more engaged, we had more cross-team collaboration (which has continued throughout the year as people are more comfortable with each other!), and people have shown better retention of the material. Staff surveys about subjective feelings about this meeting were up, too, people said it is more enjoyable. Nice! I have seen this work as well and it is amazing to see it when it happens. Great that your team could be that catalyst. In my experience it works great in trainings and workshops, but it might as well be very enjoyable and productive on dconf. Although I would keep at least 60% talks.
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On Friday, 28 December 2018 at 07:08:19 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: While I admire your persistence I fail to understand why you simply don't ignore stuff you do not like. If you do not like conferences fine - do not go there, and let us who do like them and think they are useful have some fun! Some of us want to improve things for everyone else, too. Isn't that what open source is all about? We do it initially because it works for us, but then share it because it helps the community as well. If you actually tried these improvements, you'd probably like them. Even our conservative managers at the day job have responded positively to similar changes we made over the last year. We're a predominately remote organization and used to have org-wide in-person meetings that worked very much like dconf does now - someone would be designated to rattle off about a powerpoint while everyone else passively watches. For last year's meeting, my manager (the team I'm on has done our meetings differently for a while) convinced the CEO to try a more interactive approach for the org-wide meeting too. We did that speaker intro, small random group work, whole group conclusion pattern. It was a success. Everyone was more engaged, we had more cross-team collaboration (which has continued throughout the year as people are more comfortable with each other!), and people have shown better retention of the material. Staff surveys about subjective feelings about this meeting were up, too, people said it is more enjoyable. And this shouldn't be a surprise! We find in education that using a variety of teaching strategies and getting students hands-on and working together almost always leads to better outcomes. Of course, most people STILL say their favorite part was the after-hours chats... but I say that's because the in-hours stuff was still basically work :P But I'm telling you, DConf can learn from this stuff. Joakim is doing the community a service by trying to get you all to try some changes. Even baby step compromises can yield results at low risk.
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 13:46:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: Given that this conference format is dying off, is there any explanation for why the D team wants to continue this antiquated ritual? Why are you bringing this again? Are you going to talk the same stuff whenever someone mentions some conference here?? :) While I admire your persistence I fail to understand why you simply don't ignore stuff you do not like. If you do not like conferences fine - do not go there, and let us who do like them and think they are useful have some fun!
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On Thursday, 27 December 2018 at 17:00:05 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2018-12-22 21:38:42 +, Laeeth Isharc said: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 18:47:40 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2018-12-22 12:18:25 +, Mike Parker said: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it any longer. Hi, you should consider the upcoming Brexit chaos, which is expect to have a high impact on all airlines. Currently I wouldn't bet that all parties involved get things sorted out until May... I would be happy to bet they do. The EU and US are already agreed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46380463 Well, we will see. But it's not the EU and US, but UK and US that agreed after your reference. Since I'm not from the US this information doesn't help a lot. And the significant part of your reference is this: "Theresa May's Brexit agreement with Brussels says that the UK and EU have agreed to negotiate a "comprehensive air transport agreement" for UK-EU flights during the planned transition period but it would not apply if the UK left the EU without a deal. In September the government warned a no-deal Brexit could cause disruption to air travel between the UK and European Union countries." You might be aware that the "No Deal Scenario" is currently much more likely... but again, everyone is free to do what they want. In the event of no-deal, flights will continue as before except UK operators flying _within_ Europe on domestic or intra-EU flights will need to get a license. UK operators can continue to fly to Europe, and we already said the European operators can fly here. This is a relatively recent official confirmation of what was always fairly obvious - a negotiating position is not quite the same thing as the position in actuality. http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/articles/319768/updated-european-commission-reiterates-flights-will-go-ahead-post-brexit You can read the technical guidance if you wish. Naturally it comes with the spin you would expect. And since flights to and from the EU will continue to operate, I doubt very much that flights between Britain and anywhere else will cease to operate. Britain has a current account deficit with every European nation bar Ireland and I think Malta, meaning we import more than we export. The wilder scenarios painted assume that one of the two parties would deliberately sabotage their own economy. I don't think so. I had lunch with a lawyer who advised Cameron and Osborne in their negotiations with the EU. He has written five books on Brexit, approaching it from a technical rather than political perspective. He pioneered the suggestion of enhanced equivalence which will likely be the roadmap for financial services. He says Brexit consists of a multitude of small problems which will have to be overcome by the people closest to them. But a no-deal Brexit would be fine and quite quickly rather positive. All of this stuff "if there is a no-deal Brexit, Theresa May _could_ run out of insulin" - that word could is like nasal demons in UB with C. It's a funny use of the word could - the lawyer called the insulin suggestion an insult to the intelligence. And my sister in law is a partner in a pharmaceutical regulatory firm here in Germany where I write from, and she agrees the suggestion is nonsense. There's a lot of such stuff about, generated for partisan reasons. The track record of such suggestions is pretty dire - both Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England,and Paul Krugman, a former trade economist, haha, suggested that the Bank was damaging its reputation by making such political arguments. So it's best to go to the primary sources and technical documentation. There are more entertaining ways to scare oneself if that's what one wants. But flights will be running as good or bad as they ever do,as best I can tell.
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On Thursday, 27 December 2018 at 17:13:19 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2018-12-22 21:57:09 +, Adam Wilson said: Airlines have had years to prepare for Brexit, and humans are generally pretty good at avoiding disasters that they've know about for years. You assumption is wrong, since no one knows how the Brexit will look like. You might know that "the Deal" still needs to be accepted, which hasn't been the case yet. So, nothing concrete to prepare for. The "Deal" is hated by all sides which is why Theresa May delayed the vote by a month because she knew she'd lose. She is clinging to the idea that she can get improved terms over the next month but the EU wont budge. Her majority in Parliament is so small that she has to depend on the DUP in northern Ireland for support and they vehemently oppose what the deal sets out for the northern irish border. Honestly i think most likely is we will crash out with no deal, or a new vote and stay in. Id say the first much more likely than the later. But i cant see the current deal getting through parliament nor can I see the EU changing their position.
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On 2018-12-22 21:57:09 +, Adam Wilson said: On 12/22/18 10:47 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2018-12-22 12:18:25 +, Mike Parker said: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it any longer. Hi, you should consider the upcoming Brexit chaos, which is expect to have a high impact on all airlines. Currently I wouldn't bet that all parties involved get things sorted out until May... I very much doubt that Brexit will cause anything approaching choas insofar as airlines are concerned. Currently all international flights are governed by the Montreal Convention which was signed by the individual states of the EU and not the EU itself, and the ICAO which is a UN function. They will remain in force regardless of the UK's status vis-a-vis Brexit. Since you seem to be a topic matter expert on this, I suggest you get in contact with these guys (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/iata-brexit-flight-disruption/) because they don't seem to know what you know. There may be the additional annoyance of EU folks having to pass through passport control depending on the final disposition of Brexit, but that's probably it. Since UK was not part of the Schengen agreement in the past, passport control was happening already. So, you prediction doesn't hold. Chaos is a persuasion word that has zero measurable technical meaning, it's purpose is to allow your mind to fill it's space with your worst nightmares. Whenever I see it in the news I assume that the writer is ideologically opposed to whatever event the writer is describing and lacks any evidence to back up their claims. Hmm... Following how the major figures are working, and getting things done WRT Brexit preparation and how honestly and clear everyone is informed, I can't imagine a better word. From my live-experience so far, all these indicators (clearly measureable by reading different sources, counting 1 + 1 etc.) are deep in my "chaos classificaiton". Maybe it's time to enter the stage and let the world see how you are going to manage it... a lot of poeple would be very happy if you do. Airlines have had years to prepare for Brexit, and humans are generally pretty good at avoiding disasters that they've know about for years. You assumption is wrong, since no one knows how the Brexit will look like. You might know that "the Deal" still needs to be accepted, which hasn't been the case yet. So, nothing concrete to prepare for. My guess is that on Brexit day you won't even notice, save having to pass through an automated passport kiosk. In case of a "No Deal" scenario, I bet against you ;-) -- Robert M. Münch http://www.saphirion.com smarter | better | faster
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On 2018-12-22 21:38:42 +, Laeeth Isharc said: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 18:47:40 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2018-12-22 12:18:25 +, Mike Parker said: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it any longer. Hi, you should consider the upcoming Brexit chaos, which is expect to have a high impact on all airlines. Currently I wouldn't bet that all parties involved get things sorted out until May... I would be happy to bet they do. The EU and US are already agreed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46380463 Well, we will see. But it's not the EU and US, but UK and US that agreed after your reference. Since I'm not from the US this information doesn't help a lot. And the significant part of your reference is this: "Theresa May's Brexit agreement with Brussels says that the UK and EU have agreed to negotiate a "comprehensive air transport agreement" for UK-EU flights during the planned transition period but it would not apply if the UK left the EU without a deal. In September the government warned a no-deal Brexit could cause disruption to air travel between the UK and European Union countries." You might be aware that the "No Deal Scenario" is currently much more likely... but again, everyone is free to do what they want. -- Robert M. Münch http://www.saphirion.com smarter | better | faster
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 12:18:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! That's a funny typo you have for BeerConf there. BEERCONF
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On Thursday, 27 December 2018 at 08:25:23 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2018-12-27 at 02:13 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] Wow, you've really gone off the deep end now. First you lie that I presented no data, then when called out, start claiming defamation and talk about bringing lawyers into it. You seem to be a beginner at gaslighting. Your initial data was simply two articles expressing an opinion. There was no data about conferences generally just a perception of a failure of conferences in the iOS arena. Good luck with that. :) I will have good luck. The lawyer is a person I have done expert witness work for on libel and email usage in the past in the High Court. I am not a beginner at this sort of thing. You will treat this email as a formal cease and desist letter requiring you stop defaming my character in public written statements. If you continue to defame me in public emails, I will escalate and apply for a cease and desist order in the High Court. Heh, nobody cares about you and your blatant L I E S.
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On Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 11:26:52 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: Last year I had an amazing time at Dconf. Went to bike there for 9 days (800km), to arrive the day before DConf. woah dude !
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On Thu, 2018-12-27 at 02:13 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > […] > > Wow, you've really gone off the deep end now. First you lie that > I presented no data, then when called out, start claiming > defamation and talk about bringing lawyers into it. You seem to be a beginner at gaslighting. Your initial data was simply two articles expressing an opinion. There was no data about conferences generally just a perception of a failure of conferences in the iOS arena. > Good luck with that. :) I will have good luck. The lawyer is a person I have done expert witness work for on libel and email usage in the past in the High Court. I am not a beginner at this sort of thing. You will treat this email as a formal cease and desist letter requiring you stop defaming my character in public written statements. If you continue to defame me in public emails, I will escalate and apply for a cease and desist order in the High Court. -- Russel. === Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
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On Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 09:34:48 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2018-12-26 at 05:07 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] I wrote. I have never called anyone any name or insult in anything I wrote. I have used a pejorative for a type of argument that was being used, or characterized certain actions negatively. […] I beg to differ. I have the emails with you hurling personal abuse. Your continuous, data free, but combative on others providing no data, hectoring is beginning to annoy people who are trying to be constructive within the D community. You have made your point, that you believe, and no one else here now gives a shit about. I don't know who's going around deleting forum posts, which I'm against normally though in this case concede that our OT squabbling added nothing to this thread, but you missed this post, where he first started lying about what I wrote.
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On Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 16:56:17 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2018-12-26 at 09:45 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] Wtf are you talking about? I've never emailed you in my life. If you mean in this forum thread, quote what you think is "personal abuse," I see none. We can get to that later, no need for now given your statement below. I see, so you have nothing, as always. […] I have not made my point, since most responding seem to think I'm trying to lessen in-person interaction, like even Walter above with his concert example, when that's the opposite of what I'm saying! I chalk that up to people like you, who lie about my not presenting any data when that's clearly linked in my first post, either because you don't know how to read or choose to lie anyway. So we do not need any history of this thread to see that you have no compunction libelling people. Yes there is free speech, but there is also defamation via the written word which is a civil offence in UK law. This paragraph is almost certainly libellous. I am tempted to take legal advice from a UK libel solicitor of my acquaintance. Wow, you've really gone off the deep end now. First you lie that I presented no data, then when called out, start claiming defamation and talk about bringing lawyers into it. Good luck with that. :) For someome who claims not to give a shit, you certainly keep replying a lot to me and lying about what I wrote. You claimed you were going to stop engaging with me, email on this list 2018- 12-23T0808+00:00, but it seems you are failing to keep your promises. I have stopped engaging with you on the thread topic, DConf, since then, but once you started lying about the tone and content of my posts, I've addressed that.
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On Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 11:26:52 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: Went to bike there for 9 days (800km), to arrive the day before DConf. Munich was a beautiful city but Switzerland was very graphic. Friends jokingly said it was a D pilgrimage and it was, kind of :) You could still have done that if the conference format was altered to increase in-person interaction! Putting a face on people you've known from the internet is really surprising. You would get MORE of that if the conference format was altered to increase in-person interaction. Keep in mind that what I want to do is to tweak dconf, not to kill it. Change from 50 minute talk to 30 minute talk + 20 minute interaction, in at least some cases. Or it might be fun to reconfigure a day: have all the day's speakers do 15 minute initial talks and pass out "learn more" links. Then we have a *two hour* lunch/mingling break which gives everyone a chance to digest the morning's information, look into the learn more stuff, form ad-hoc study groups, etc. Then, after lunch, the speakers return for follow up stuff. Talk part 2, public Q, whatever, using the remaining 25 mins each of their time. I'm open to a lot of ideas... I just want to spend more of the in-hours time doing in-person interaction. My only regret was not sleeping at the hotel since you don't get as many occasions to meet people in a beer settings. And again, a huge point I have been trying to make is we could get MORE of that if we tweaked the format! Most everyone cites their favorite and most productive part of in-person meetings are actually the after hours stuff. (I hear this both from dconf and my day job - this is part of why it hits me so much, but the day job has been doing some tweaks this last year, to great success - I *know* these changes are for the better.) So why not take some of the after-hours wins into the main event? Going backwards to this: The talks were honestly all interesting, probably being there puts you in the mood to really get into them. Well, wouldn't it be fun to be able to talk about them or work with the ideas more in person?! With my compromise proposals, you'd still get much of the same talk... just use a fraction of the remaining time to interact with everyone and their code directly.
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On Wed, 2018-12-26 at 09:45 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > […] > Wtf are you talking about? I've never emailed you in my life. If > you mean in this forum thread, quote what you think is "personal > abuse," I see none. We can get to that later, no need for now given your statement below. […] > I have not made my point, since most responding seem to think I'm > trying to lessen in-person interaction, like even Walter above > with his concert example, when that's the opposite of what I'm > saying! I chalk that up to people like you, who lie about my not > presenting any data when that's clearly linked in my first post, > either because you don't know how to read or choose to lie anyway. So we do not need any history of this thread to see that you have no compunction libelling people. Yes there is free speech, but there is also defamation via the written word which is a civil offence in UK law. This paragraph is almost certainly libellous. I am tempted to take legal advice from a UK libel solicitor of my acquaintance. > For someome who claims not to give a shit, you certainly keep > replying a lot to me and lying about what I wrote. You claimed you were going to stop engaging with me, email on this list 2018- 12-23T0808+00:00, but it seems you are failing to keep your promises. -- Russel. === Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
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Awesome! I look forward to DConf 2019. I'm planning my trip already. Thanks you all who's working behind the scenes to make this happen. It's amazing.
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On Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 00:51:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: The talks are either irrelevant, trivial, or vaporware (seriously, how much of the stuff described have never come to pass?), and there's really no benefit in spending several days of my life on that. Especially when I can watch it on youtube in half the time (thanks 2x speed playback)... or less (thanks skimming around to find the interesting nugget in the sea of boredom). I think this is a bit uncharitable. Last year I had an amazing time at Dconf. Went to bike there for 9 days (800km), to arrive the day before DConf. Munich was a beautiful city but Switzerland was very graphic. Friends jokingly said it was a D pilgrimage and it was, kind of :) The talks were honestly all interesting, probably being there puts you in the mood to really get into them. It's a shame not all of them were recorded. I remember those from Johnathan, Andrei and those talks on "open methods" more distinctly. Putting a face on people you've known from the internet is really surprising. My only regret was not sleeping at the hotel since you don't get as many occasions to meet people in a beer settings. I was more than happy to pay the full DConf price and expenses for a trip I will remember all my life.
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On Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 09:34:48 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2018-12-26 at 05:07 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] I wrote. I have never called anyone any name or insult in anything I wrote. I have used a pejorative for a type of argument that was being used, or characterized certain actions negatively. […] I beg to differ. I have the emails with you hurling personal abuse. Wtf are you talking about? I've never emailed you in my life. If you mean in this forum thread, quote what you think is "personal abuse," I see none. Your continuous, data free, but combative on others providing no data, hectoring is beginning to annoy people who are trying to be constructive within the D community. You have made your point, that you believe, and no one else here now gives a shit about. I have not made my point, since most responding seem to think I'm trying to lessen in-person interaction, like even Walter above with his concert example, when that's the opposite of what I'm saying! I chalk that up to people like you, who lie about my not presenting any data when that's clearly linked in my first post, either because you don't know how to read or choose to lie anyway. For someome who claims not to give a shit, you certainly keep replying a lot to me and lying about what I wrote.
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On Wed, 2018-12-26 at 05:07 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > […] > I wrote. I have never called anyone any name or insult in > anything I wrote. I have used a pejorative for a type of argument > that was being used, or characterized certain actions negatively. […] I beg to differ. I have the emails with you hurling personal abuse. Your continuous, data free, but combative on others providing no data, hectoring is beginning to annoy people who are trying to be constructive within the D community. You have made your point, that you believe, and no one else here now gives a shit about. -- Russel. === Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
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On Tuesday, 25 December 2018 at 23:09:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/25/2018 10:54 AM, Joakim wrote: [...] It's fine that you disagree with others, and it's ok when you insult me, but when you insult others it's time to stop. It's not clear what you're referring to, since you quote nothing I wrote. I have never called anyone any name or insult in anything I wrote. I have used a pejorative for a type of argument that was being used, or characterized certain actions negatively. I stand by those negative descriptions, and if you consider it an "insult" that I said "you just had to be there" is a stupid argument, I don't know what to tell you. Almost anyone who thinks about such matters believes that. I could sit here and say it was "insulting" how people repeatedly characterized me as wanting to stop all in-person interaction, when that is _the exact opposite_ of what I wrote! But I don't go around making up grievances like that, I suggest you don't either.
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On Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 00:06:39 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: I don't mean to stoke the flames on this anymore, but I do: I've been to past conferences and now that I'm not a poor student anymore I'd pay to go to them. I've been to past conferences and don't consider it worth going even if I was paid to go. The only way I'd even consider it again is if either 1) it is in a location where I have other business or 2) the format has some change, even if it is a small conservative change like what I described in the previous email, in at least *some* of the talks. The talks are either irrelevant, trivial, or vaporware (seriously, how much of the stuff described have never come to pass?), and there's really no benefit in spending several days of my life on that. Especially when I can watch it on youtube in half the time (thanks 2x speed playback)... or less (thanks skimming around to find the interesting nugget in the sea of boredom). Wanna know my favorite part of the ones I attended? Walking around UVU with Prof. Allison the one thing I did that was NOT part of the official schedule. That's why I agree with Joakim - we should tweak the format to maximize the stuff that BASICALLY EVERYONE AGREES are better - the actual in-person interaction.
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On Tuesday, 25 December 2018 at 18:54:25 UTC, Joakim wrote: Simply repeating over and over again that you're not "convinced" is not an argument, nor do your own personal reasons above argue for one format over another. I don't mean to stoke the flames on this anymore, but I do: I've been to past conferences and now that I'm not a poor student anymore I'd pay to go to them. I happen to still have plenty of free time so watching pre-recorded talks, while not a problem for me a) does not apply to everyone and b) loses interactivity. I asked for a rationale above and got none from Mike and a very weak, confused one from Walter. It's fairly obvious that there was never any real deliberation on the DConf format, and that you guys have dug in and decided to cut off your nose to spite your face. I can't speak for other but the rationale or deliberation of not doing what you have suggested is the it has worked well in the past, and I see no reason for that to cease to be the case. Fine with me, your loss. On the contrary, I think it will (continue to be) a massive success. I see, so you're arguing that DConf shouldn't be doing in-person talks because it's larger than most D meetups? Don't answer that, scale as a reason makes no sense and there's no way you can make it. You have that backwards again, As Iain said, watching one pre-recorded talk takes an hour, which I'm sure many enthusiasts will be able and wiling to spend, scale that up to 20 and they may not be able to even if they are willing. To do something very different from a "traditional" conference would be a significant risk when what we have works well. I see no "risk" whatsoever in change when the status quo is dying, and what you're already doing isn't having much impact. and that comes down to an apparently fundament disagreement that the status quo is not good enough, In our experience the current format work very well. I hope you agree that a major change to the way things are done will likely have a major impact on the quality of the conference: if you think it is bad enough that changing it can only improve it then you would, rightly, come to the conclusion that the expected value (in the statistical sense) of changing the format is positive. However, if you think that the change may cause the quality to degrade then the expected value of the change of format drops significantly... As noted previously your opinions would carry more weight if you had actually attended a past DConf. Heh, this is the dumbest possible argument anyone can put forth and you guys repeatedly make it: "I have no arguments so 'Magic! You had to be there!'" ...and the change becomes much more risky. The argument of "your opinions would carry more weight if you had actually attended a past DConf" stems from the fact that we have experienced the conference as a positive well worthwhile to attend event and we see the potential for this to get worse in the face of change.
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On 12/25/2018 10:54 AM, Joakim wrote: [...] It's fine that you disagree with others, and it's ok when you insult me, but when you insult others it's time to stop.
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On Tuesday, 25 December 2018 at 11:27:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Tuesday, 25 December 2018 at 05:01:43 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 24 December 2018 at 22:22:08 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: The 0.1% of the community that attend seem to like it, the vast majority don't, or at least don't care. You think we have 200k users? More to the point you neglect the benefit of development and progress is shared by all users. I, for one, will not be donating to the foundation as long as they continue to waste money this way, just as others have said they won't donate as long as it doesn't put out a Vision document anymore or otherwise communicate what it's doing with their money. I agree this does need to happen, the foundation will be having a another meeting in Feb to set the vision, which I hope will be a little more planned and productive than the last one. Nobody is asking for your money for this conference (unless you want to attend), and if you feel this way, that's totally your choice. I'm not talking about the registration fee, I'm talking about contributing anything to the foundation, which Walter indicates above covers some of the expenses for DConf. Some additional transparency would help, Mike? I like the results that come from the conferences, I've been to all of them since 2013, on my dime for 3, and with assistance for 3. I felt it was 100% worth it for all. Yet you cannot give a single reason _why_ you felt it was worth it, or why my suggestions wouldn't make it better. I'll give my reasons: I got a job out of it. I got useful insight into various bits of the compiler. I got connections for collaboration with stuff that I'm interested. If you're making a bad decision, it _should_ be questioned. Indeed, but none of us think DConf is a bad idea or that the format doesn't work for us. Almost nothing that has been decided so far would stop most of my three suggestions from still being implemented. You haven't managed to convince us that that would be an improvement. As for how they feel about it, I don't care. The reason most projects and companies fail is because the decision-making process stops being about putting out a good product but about "feelings" and various people "saving face," especially when higher up the hierarchy, ie politics. And don't make up some nonsense that I'm saying that it's okay if everybody starts cursing each other out like Linus did: we're talking about _questioning a decision_. That is the whole point of having a community. The day this community starts being more about saving face is the day I leave it, as that's the beginning of the end, and I don't want to be around for that end. I totally agree, but again, you haven't convinced us that it is an improvement. Not at all, the whole reason I'm willing to debate is that other worthwhile perspectives may be out there. I think the evidence and arguments strongly favor the suggestions I'm putting forward, but I'm perfectly willing to consider other arguments. That is the same stance they should have, but don't appear to. My problem with this "debate" is that nobody was able to defend the current DConf format at all. That reasoning is backwards: in our experience DConf, as done in the past, works, and it works well. The onus is on you to convince us that it would work better the way you describe. Simply repeating over and over again that you're not "convinced" is not an argument, nor do your own personal reasons above argue for one format over another. I asked for a rationale above and got none from Mike and a very weak, confused one from Walter. It's fairly obvious that there was never any real deliberation on the DConf format, and that you guys have dug in and decided to cut off your nose to spite your face. Fine with me, your loss. Consider some of Walter's silly arguments above: at one point he says he wants "successful instantiations of your theories," implying that these are all things I'm just talking about and nobody's doing them, though it's not clear which aspects he thinks that of since I've presented evidence for much of it. But at another point, he says that other D meetups are already doing something I suggest (I pointed out that he's wrong about that one, but let's assume he believes it), so there's no reason for DConf to do it. First of all, 95+% of D meetups appear to follow the DConf format of having a single speaker lecture to a room, so why isn't that an argument against doing that yet again at DConf? What works at one scale doesn't necessarily work at another. I see, so you're arguing that DConf shouldn't be doing in-person talks because it's larger than most D meetups? Don't answer that, scale as a reason makes no sense and there's no way you can make it. To do something very different from a "traditional" conference would be a significant risk when what we have works well. I see no
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On Tuesday, 25 December 2018 at 05:01:43 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 24 December 2018 at 22:22:08 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: The 0.1% of the community that attend seem to like it, the vast majority don't, or at least don't care. You think we have 200k users? More to the point you neglect the benefit of development and progress is shared by all users. I, for one, will not be donating to the foundation as long as they continue to waste money this way, just as others have said they won't donate as long as it doesn't put out a Vision document anymore or otherwise communicate what it's doing with their money. I agree this does need to happen, the foundation will be having a another meeting in Feb to set the vision, which I hope will be a little more planned and productive than the last one. Nobody is asking for your money for this conference (unless you want to attend), and if you feel this way, that's totally your choice. I'm not talking about the registration fee, I'm talking about contributing anything to the foundation, which Walter indicates above covers some of the expenses for DConf. Some additional transparency would help, Mike? I like the results that come from the conferences, I've been to all of them since 2013, on my dime for 3, and with assistance for 3. I felt it was 100% worth it for all. Yet you cannot give a single reason _why_ you felt it was worth it, or why my suggestions wouldn't make it better. I'll give my reasons: I got a job out of it. I got useful insight into various bits of the compiler. I got connections for collaboration with stuff that I'm interested. If you're making a bad decision, it _should_ be questioned. Indeed, but none of us think DConf is a bad idea or that the format doesn't work for us. Almost nothing that has been decided so far would stop most of my three suggestions from still being implemented. You haven't managed to convince us that that would be an improvement. As for how they feel about it, I don't care. The reason most projects and companies fail is because the decision-making process stops being about putting out a good product but about "feelings" and various people "saving face," especially when higher up the hierarchy, ie politics. And don't make up some nonsense that I'm saying that it's okay if everybody starts cursing each other out like Linus did: we're talking about _questioning a decision_. That is the whole point of having a community. The day this community starts being more about saving face is the day I leave it, as that's the beginning of the end, and I don't want to be around for that end. I totally agree, but again, you haven't convinced us that it is an improvement. Not at all, the whole reason I'm willing to debate is that other worthwhile perspectives may be out there. I think the evidence and arguments strongly favor the suggestions I'm putting forward, but I'm perfectly willing to consider other arguments. That is the same stance they should have, but don't appear to. My problem with this "debate" is that nobody was able to defend the current DConf format at all. That reasoning is backwards: in our experience DConf, as done in the past, works, and it works well. The onus is on you to convince us that it would work better the way you describe. Consider some of Walter's silly arguments above: at one point he says he wants "successful instantiations of your theories," implying that these are all things I'm just talking about and nobody's doing them, though it's not clear which aspects he thinks that of since I've presented evidence for much of it. But at another point, he says that other D meetups are already doing something I suggest (I pointed out that he's wrong about that one, but let's assume he believes it), so there's no reason for DConf to do it. First of all, 95+% of D meetups appear to follow the DConf format of having a single speaker lecture to a room, so why isn't that an argument against doing that yet again at DConf? What works at one scale doesn't necessarily work at another. To do something very different from a "traditional" conference would be a significant risk when what we have works well. As noted previously your opinions would carry more weight if you had actually attended a past DConf. Secondly and more importantly, he's speaking out of both sides of his mouth: do you want to do something that nobody else's doing or that somebody has done? You can't argue _both_ that you don't want to do what others are doing and what nobody else is doing. And why wouldn't the former apply much more to the outdated DConf format? I don't knowhow many times we have to say it: we do not feel the conference format is outdated. It's not just because of this, this is merely the final straw. I have felt that the talks were mostly not worth my time at the last couple Dconfs, that is the main reason. I see a lot of
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On Tuesday, 25 December 2018 at 07:10:46 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 25/12/2018 6:01 PM, Joakim wrote: See my responses to Nicholas above, I don't think the Android port merits a talk. By the same standards I apply to others' talks above, I don't think my work merits a talk either. ;) A talk covering ARM and Android development in general would be very well received in the context of D. If you want to be convinced we could do a poll on who would want to see it (but I expect quite a large number of people would be in support of). I don't see how it could be worthwhile: nobody has ever given such a DConf talk about a port to a specific platform because it doesn't really make sense. The whole point of a port is to abstract away the platform, so you can simply recompile most of your D source for it, as H. S. Teoh has indicated he's been able to do with the Android app he's been developing in D recently. The way to do that talk is to abstract multiple ports into a general porting guide, which is the talk Kai already gave, or maybe talk about the details of a port to a very obscure or different platform, as Igor did this year: https://dconf.org/2018/talks/cesi.html While it was fascinating to hear how much work he put into it, much more than me, my interest was squelched somewhat because he couldn't reveal the platform and it's likely I would never use it anyway (not a game programmer). I mean, who really develops for non-Windows, non-Posix OS platforms? I haven't since college. For those few who do, maybe the talk was great. But the Android port wasn't that obscure: it's basically a linux/ARM distro with a different libc, Bionic. If you really mean "ARM and Android development in general" and not the details of the port, I can't claim much knowledge of that, as I don't have a large Android codebase that I've developed and deployed. Hopefully, even if I did, there would be nothing to say: as it should be pretty similar to writing D code for a desktop platform. My phone- on whose 5.5" screen I'm viewing the text of this forum response as I type it out on a separate, full-sized bluetooth keyboard paired with it- has 6 GBs of RAM and 128 GBs of storage (of which I have 8 GB free right now). That's about what midrange desktops and laptops come with these days (though with much larger screens ;) ), so you can't say mobile presents much of a constraint in terms of hardware. I've pointed out before that I compile code on my phone about as fast as a Macbook Air from a couple years ago: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/sqbtgmbtrorgthspl...@forum.dlang.org If you see some other angle on an Android talk that I'm missing, I'd be happy to hear it, but I don't see it. Maybe someday when I have a huge, successful Android app in D, I'll write about or put up a talk online about the architecture I used, but hopefully there won't be much specific to Android there. :)
Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition
On 25/12/2018 6:01 PM, Joakim wrote: See my responses to Nicholas above, I don't think the Android port merits a talk. By the same standards I apply to others' talks above, I don't think my work merits a talk either. ;) A talk covering ARM and Android development in general would be very well received in the context of D. If you want to be convinced we could do a poll on who would want to see it (but I expect quite a large number of people would be in support of).
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On Monday, 24 December 2018 at 22:22:08 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 12/24/18 2:44 AM, Joakim wrote: On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 22:36:05 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Huh? It's their decision, not yours. Even if the decision has no reason at all, it's still theirs. What is the problem? Start your own D "conference competitor" if you think you can do better. They are accountable to the community, so the decision and its reasons matter. My impression is that the community likes and benefits from these conferences, so everything's cool there. The 0.1% of the community that attend seem to like it, the vast majority don't, or at least don't care. I, for one, will not be donating to the foundation as long as they continue to waste money this way, just as others have said they won't donate as long as it doesn't put out a Vision document anymore or otherwise communicate what it's doing with their money. Nobody is asking for your money for this conference (unless you want to attend), and if you feel this way, that's totally your choice. I'm not talking about the registration fee, I'm talking about contributing anything to the foundation, which Walter indicates above covers some of the expenses for DConf. I like the results that come from the conferences, I've been to all of them since 2013, on my dime for 3, and with assistance for 3. I felt it was 100% worth it for all. Yet you cannot give a single reason _why_ you felt it was worth it, or why my suggestions wouldn't make it better. Nobody cares to debate something that has already been scheduled and planned, the time to bring up concerns was earlier, when you brought it up before. But that failed to convince, now it's decided, time to move on. So you agree with me that there's no point in "debating" it again, perhaps you should have addressed this comment to Mike then? Mike didn't start the debate in this thread, you did. I did no such thing: I asked for the reasons _why_ the decision was made, considering the previous debate. That is not restarting the debate, simply asking for the rationale. Others then tried to debate me again, and while I did respect them enough to engage with their arguments, I repeatedly pointed out that I wasn't looking to debate it again. Consider how one feels when careful deliberation is made, and a final decision, combined with an announcement is made. Would you like to have people question your decisions AFTER they are made, and commitments have already been established? The time to question them is before they are made, not after. Questioning after is simply viewed (rightly) as sour grapes. You didn't get your way, move on. If you're making a bad decision, it _should_ be questioned. Almost nothing that has been decided so far would stop most of my three suggestions from still being implemented. As for how they feel about it, I don't care. The reason most projects and companies fail is because the decision-making process stops being about putting out a good product but about "feelings" and various people "saving face," especially when higher up the hierarchy, ie politics. And don't make up some nonsense that I'm saying that it's okay if everybody starts cursing each other out like Linus did: we're talking about _questioning a decision_. That is the whole point of having a community. The day this community starts being more about saving face is the day I leave it, as that's the beginning of the end, and I don't want to be around for that end. If it's such a great idea, that should be an easy case to make, compared to the alternatives given. Yet all I get is a bunch of stone-walling, suggesting no reasoning was actually involved, just blindly aping others and the past. It is easy, for those who have attended conferences and like them -- they work well. All past dconfs are shining examples. Just drop it and move on to something else. You lost the battle for this one, it's no longer up for discussion. Heh, there was no "battle," as most of those responding didn't even understand what I wrote, like Iain above, gave no arguments (we "like them -- they work well"), and as finally clear from Mike and Walter's responses here, there was no real deliberation on the matter. You think they just flipped a coin one day, and didn't think about any past experience at all? No real thinking must have gone into it because only intelligent people can come to the conclusion you reached, right? This kind of "debate" where the assumption is that only my way is correct is common out there these days, it's tiring. Not at all, the whole reason I'm willing to debate is that other worthwhile perspectives may be out there. I think the evidence and arguments strongly favor the suggestions I'm putting forward, but I'm perfectly willing to consider other arguments. That is the same stance they should have, but don't appear to. My problem
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On Monday, 24 December 2018 at 12:30:57 UTC, Vijay Nayar wrote: Looking forward to it! The caliber of people at these conferences has been exceptional every year I've gone, and many of the ideas presented have been very valuable, whether they were directly related to DLang or not. Just one small example was a 2017 talk by Bastiaan Veelo on D libraries implementing Parsing Expression Grammars, which I had never heard of at the time. But the idea ended up being very useful for greatly simplifying the interfaces of systems I was working on that year. Thank you Vijay, that’s nice to hear! Bastiaan.
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On 12/24/2018 4:30 AM, Vijay Nayar wrote: I've been doing quite a bit of work this year on the Google S2 Geometric Library in D. If I can benchmark the library against the C++ version or show how it can be used to tackle some of the trickier real-time problems in large-scale web services, would it be a good candidate to try to make into a talk for the conference? Sounds like a good idea!
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On 12/24/2018 2:22 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I'm sure Walter and Andrei would not discourage more D conferences or conference-like gatherings. Speaking for myself (and I'm sure Andrei would agree) we're all for it.
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On 12/24/18 2:44 AM, Joakim wrote: On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 22:36:05 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Huh? It's their decision, not yours. Even if the decision has no reason at all, it's still theirs. What is the problem? Start your own D "conference competitor" if you think you can do better. They are accountable to the community, so the decision and its reasons matter. My impression is that the community likes and benefits from these conferences, so everything's cool there. I, for one, will not be donating to the foundation as long as they continue to waste money this way, just as others have said they won't donate as long as it doesn't put out a Vision document anymore or otherwise communicate what it's doing with their money. Nobody is asking for your money for this conference (unless you want to attend), and if you feel this way, that's totally your choice. I like the results that come from the conferences, I've been to all of them since 2013, on my dime for 3, and with assistance for 3. I felt it was 100% worth it for all. Nobody cares to debate something that has already been scheduled and planned, the time to bring up concerns was earlier, when you brought it up before. But that failed to convince, now it's decided, time to move on. So you agree with me that there's no point in "debating" it again, perhaps you should have addressed this comment to Mike then? Mike didn't start the debate in this thread, you did. Consider how one feels when careful deliberation is made, and a final decision, combined with an announcement is made. Would you like to have people question your decisions AFTER they are made, and commitments have already been established? The time to question them is before they are made, not after. Questioning after is simply viewed (rightly) as sour grapes. You didn't get your way, move on. If it's such a great idea, that should be an easy case to make, compared to the alternatives given. Yet all I get is a bunch of stone-walling, suggesting no reasoning was actually involved, just blindly aping others and the past. It is easy, for those who have attended conferences and like them -- they work well. All past dconfs are shining examples. Just drop it and move on to something else. You lost the battle for this one, it's no longer up for discussion. Heh, there was no "battle," as most of those responding didn't even understand what I wrote, like Iain above, gave no arguments (we "like them -- they work well"), and as finally clear from Mike and Walter's responses here, there was no real deliberation on the matter. You think they just flipped a coin one day, and didn't think about any past experience at all? No real thinking must have gone into it because only intelligent people can come to the conclusion you reached, right? This kind of "debate" where the assumption is that only my way is correct is common out there these days, it's tiring. The best thing you can do is start a competing conference style and show how it works better. I'm sure Walter and Andrei would not discourage more D conferences or conference-like gatherings. Since they don't take DConf seriously, I see no reason to either: I'll just start ignoring it from now on. That's unfortunate, but not anything I can change. You have contributed a lot in terms of the android port, although I haven't really programmed in android (I have a tiny bit, with Xamarin (hated it) and a bit with Java (was OK, but crazy complicated) ). I hope at some point you reconsider, I'd love to see a presentation on it. -Steve
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I'm just some random guy but for what it's worth the recorded talks at DConf are valuable to me. I don't much care what format the conference takes or if we even continue to have them since it's not often practical for me to attend anyway, but I would miss the talks. It would be cool if the community would put out a standalone lecture or two throughout the year between DConfs. Please apply lessons learned this time to make sure all the lectures eventually make it to YouTube in decent quality. Thanks for the work ya'll do.
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 12:18:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it any longer. Looking forward to it! The caliber of people at these conferences has been exceptional every year I've gone, and many of the ideas presented have been very valuable, whether they were directly related to DLang or not. Just one small example was a 2017 talk by Bastiaan Veelo on D libraries implementing Parsing Expression Grammars, which I had never heard of at the time. But the idea ended up being very useful for greatly simplifying the interfaces of systems I was working on that year. I've been doing quite a bit of work this year on the Google S2 Geometric Library in D. If I can benchmark the library against the C++ version or show how it can be used to tackle some of the trickier real-time problems in large-scale web services, would it be a good candidate to try to make into a talk for the conference?
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On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 14:20:08 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 10:59:32 UTC, Joakim wrote: You say that like some superior technology exists to replace the conference. It does, read the first link I gave in my first post above. You mean the one that says "I don’t know how to fix conferences"? Yes, obviously that would be the one that explains that superior online tech is what's killing the conference, before he tries to think of some way to keep the good parts around, as I'm doing too. Yes, DConf may benefit from tutorials, workshops, BoFs, whatever, but the value it brings to the community is very real. It may bring some value, but that's not the question: the question is whether we could get more value out of the alternatives, particularly at a cheaper cost? The fact that you and others keep avoiding this question suggests you know the answer. That really depends on the objective function you mean by "more value". "social networks, Slack groups, podcasts, and YouTube" are all well and good but they cannot compare (as in apples to oranges) to high-bandwidth low latency personal communication with all the people that have an interest (business, technical, whatever) and technical expertise in the subject at hand. Huh, that's funny, because that's exactly what all my and Adam's suggestions are geared around: spending valuable in-person time communicating in "high-bandwidth low latency," rather than the low-bandwidth, outdated in-person talk format that is done much better online. It's almost like you agree with me. :) Hardly. IME there are two kinds of conferences (or maybe they form a spectrum, whatever) academic and industrial. Academic is going nowhere, research needs presenting, organisation of collaboration needs to happen. Research conferences are irrelevant. I don't pay attention to them and the fact that the Haskell link Atila gave above says their conferences are for presenting research is one big reason why almost nobody uses that PL in industry. I concede that I find PL theory useless, but not all academic conferences are PL theory, and I don't think that the potential scope for more academic talks of DConf is limited to PL theory. Novel applications of D in anything from physics to bioinformatics to optimisations based on immutability to DSELs enabled by D's meta programming are all possible in an academic setting. Sure, academic applications of D might be interesting, but that and most any talk would be better pre-recorded and watched at home. The only exception would be panels that require audience interaction, which is why I called those out in the linked forum thread. Industrial, there is project coordination, employment prospectus, business opportunities, why do you think companies sponsor conferences? They get their moneys worth out of it. Clearly not in the iOS community, and according to a commenter in my second link above, the Javascript community in his country, as the number of tech conferences is going down a lot. It is my impression that this is true across the board for pretty much every tech community, but I presented that iOS link because he actually tallies the evidence. I don't doubt those numbers and perhaps the other forms of communication do lessen the need for multiple conferences per year, but there is a large difference from many to one compared to one to zero, in person communication cannot be easily replaced. It's almost as though you don't understand the Engligh language: my suggestions are all about having _more_ in-person communication. Did you even read my suggestions? Industrial sponsorship is definitely real, take a look at the side column of http://llvm.org/devmtg/2018-10/ which I went to and talked to the authors of https://github.com/wsmoses/Tapir-LLVM for potentially targeting OpenMP and other parallel runtimes with dcompute, talked to the people developing the SPIR-V target of LLVM, the list goes on. I'm going to EuroLLVM (Brussels) to continue those conversations, followed straight away by ACCU (Bristol) to give a talk about meta programming with D in the context of developing and using DCompute. Then a few weeks later I'll be going to DConf for many reasons but principally to coordinate development, deal with the gripes that have accumulated. I'll probably return home via Boston for IWOCL (OpenCL). Heh, you're a conference junkie. :) I don't understand what your first statement has to do with anything else you wrote: what "industrial sponsorship" came out of any of this conference-hopping? You mention none. In any case, all my suggestions are about increasing outreach and communication, which would hopefully lead to _more_ such sponsorship. Perhaps you as an individual believe that they are not cost effective for you, fine. As I keep repeating, this is not about me. I'm pointing out trends for _most_ devs,
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On 12/23/2018 3:40 PM, Rubn wrote: I'll take that to assume you aren't paying for your own ticket, your own hotel expenses, etc. I wonder if you would feel differently about this if you had to pay for all these out of your own pocket. I paid my own expenses for DConf. So did many of the speakers (or the company they worked for). > I can only imagine what else could improve with those additional funds. Many people have donated generously to the D Foundation. The tickets sales do not cover the entire cost of the conference, the rest is made up for by the Foundation and the sponsor(s). We've kept the ticket prices low to enable more people to come. If there were profits, they'd accrue to the D Foundation, not me. If you have specific things you want funded, you can donate with the proviso that the donation go to that thing.
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On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 10:07:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: BTW, another point for the presentations is that we cover the air fare and hotel expenses for the presenters. Quite a lot of people have been able to attend because of this. It's our way of giving a little bit back to strong contributors. I'll take that to assume you aren't paying for your own ticket, your own hotel expenses, etc. I wonder if you would feel differently about this if you had to pay for all these out of your own pocket. I'd be curious of the total expenses for DConf, all of the funds could be used to hire more developers. The pull request situation has improves significantly, I can only imagine what else could improve with those additional funds. I think it'd fair to outline how much does end up being spent on DConf and do a logical comparison of money being spent relatively. I know how you feel about owing people of the your community nothing though, so I guess it's a nice dream. Without those statistics to include with the argument it's pointless to argue with you, might as well be arguing whether unicorns exist.
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On 12/22/18 12:22 PM, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 17:13:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:57:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: I'm not trying to discuss it with you or the community. I'm asking the D team who're making this decision why it's being made, despite all the reasoning in that thread, and reiterating that it's a bad move. I suspect they're not thinking this through, but they can speak for themselves. The decision was made because your reasoning failed to convince anyone involved in the planning that maintaining the current format of DConf is a mistake. Nor do they agree with you that it's a bad move. We like the current format and see no need to change it at this time. I see, so you admit no reasoning was involved on your part? Because you present none, either there or here. Huh? It's their decision, not yours. Even if the decision has no reason at all, it's still theirs. What is the problem? Start your own D "conference competitor" if you think you can do better. If you would like to carry on another debate about this, please open another thread in thhe General forum. This one isn't the place for it. Thanks! As I just noted, I don't care to "debate" it with people who make no arguments. Instead, I'm asking you or whoever made this horrible decision why it's being made. Nobody cares to debate something that has already been scheduled and planned, the time to bring up concerns was earlier, when you brought it up before. But that failed to convince, now it's decided, time to move on. If it's such a great idea, that should be an easy case to make, compared to the alternatives given. Yet all I get is a bunch of stone-walling, suggesting no reasoning was actually involved, just blindly aping others and the past. It is easy, for those who have attended conferences and like them -- they work well. All past dconfs are shining examples. Just drop it and move on to something else. You lost the battle for this one, it's no longer up for discussion. -Steve
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 at 16:05, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > I'm not sure how a talk is supposed to inspire anything > substantive _before_ you've heard it, and pre-recorded talks > watched at home would fill the same purpose after. > No one is interested in watching pre-recorded talks. I think I've said this before regarding the failed experiment at GHM. > Perhaps this is a generation gap, as I see that you and Russel > are a couple decades older than me, so let me give my > perspective. I've probably watched a week or two of recorded tech > talks online over the last year, and maybe a couple hours in > person. Invariably, I find myself wishing for a skip-ahead button > on those in-person talks, like I have for the online videos. ;) > > I suspect there are many more like me these days than you two. > Nope, I reckon I'm of your generation, and even I don't understand you. :-) If you don't like human interaction, that's your problem. Don't tell others that they shouldn't meet up once yearly to talk about subjects that interests them greatly. Meanwhile, I'll be having fun at Dconf next year... -- Iain
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 at 15:40, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 14:20:08 UTC, Nicholas Wilson > wrote: > > they cannot compare (as in apples to oranges) to high-bandwidth > > low latency personal communication with all the people that > > have an interest (business, technical, whatever) and technical > > expertise in the subject at hand. > > Then why don't we tweak the schedule to maximize the time spent > on this stuff?! When pressed, everyone says their favorite part > is what happens outside the talks... so I say we bring more of > that inside the talk time too. > > I'd be pretty happy if we just experimented with more interactive > stuff during the talks, like I proposed in my last message. We do > that kind of stuff at my day job in-person retreats and it is > pretty successful. (Though I'd prefer to go further away, this > acts as a kind of compromise position.) Perhaps it would be nice to have two tracks running. One with talks, the other with BoFs, so you can switch between talk / group conversation depending on which interests you. -- Iain
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On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 10:07:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/22/2018 10:20 PM, Joakim wrote: Honestly, yours are routinely the worst presentations at DConf. Your strength as a presenter is when you dig deeply into a bunch of technical detail or present some new technical paradigm, similar to Andrei. Yet, your DConf keynotes usually go the exact opposite route and go very lightly over not very much at all. Eh, I went pretty far into the DIP 1000 material. That one had more technical examples, but I didn't think it was very well-motivated and could probably have had more detail. My feeling is that you save your best stuff for your NWCPP talks and present the baby versions at DConf. 1) Ditch in-person presentations for pre-recorded talks that people watch on their own time. Getting everybody in the same room in London to silently watch talks together is a horrible waste, that only made sense before we all had high-speed internet-connected TVs and smartphones with good cameras. Do a four-day hackathon instead, ie mostly collaboration, not passive viewing. It's very different listening to a presentation live rather than pre-recorded. There are the before and after interactions they inspire. I'm not sure how a talk is supposed to inspire anything substantive _before_ you've heard it, and pre-recorded talks watched at home would fill the same purpose after. Perhaps this is a generation gap, as I see that you and Russel are a couple decades older than me, so let me give my perspective. I've probably watched a week or two of recorded tech talks online over the last year, and maybe a couple hours in person. Invariably, I find myself wishing for a skip-ahead button on those in-person talks, like I have for the online videos. ;) I suspect there are many more like me these days than you two. 2) Rather than doing a central DConf that most cannot justify attending, do several locations, eg in the cities the core team already lives in, like Boston, Seattle, San Jose, Hong Kong, etc. This makes it cost-effective for many more people to attend, and since you'll have ditched the in-person tech talks, spend the time introducing the many more attendees to the language or have those who already know it work on the language/libraries, ie something like the current DConf hackathon. London is the most cost-effective destination for most D team members. For distributed meetings, there have been several D meetups that do what you suggest. While fun and valuable, they're not a replacement for DConf. I have never heard of a meetup doing what I suggest, ie an all-day D event with almost no in-person talks, possibly co-ordinated with other cities. I think this would be _much better_ for D than DConf. 3) Get the core team together as a separate event, either as an offline retreat or online video conference or both. I know you guys need to meet once in awhile, but it makes no sense to spend most of that in-person time at DConf staring at talks that could be viewed online later. If you ever came to one, you might see it differently. I'm not a member of the core team, so I'm not sure how that's relevant. If you just mean that I could observe how the core team is getting a lot of value out of in-person talks, I call BS. While I find it questionable to say that they couldn't easily find and recruit those people online, given that D is primarly an online project where most everything and everyone is easily available online, I see no reason why any of the changes above would stop that. There's a very clear connection between DConf and successful collaborations with industry and D developers. Why mess with success? For the chance of much more success? I'm sure there have been some fruitful collaborations and hiring at DConf. I'm saying there would likely be _even more_ with my suggestions. It seems clear to me that you, at the very least, have not engaged with the links and ideas I've been providing about why the current DConf format is broken. Your opinions would have more weight if (1) you've ever attended a DConf Perhaps but since I haven't been, you could presumably articulate what you find so great about DConf that contradicts my opinions, but you mention nothing here and your reasons elsewhere aren't too worthwhile. and (2) can point to successful instantiations of your theories. What do you consider a "theory" above: that you could have better outreach at several locations or that pre-recorded talks watched at home are a better use of valuable in-person time? I don't think that's theorizing, it's well-accepted by most everyone who knows these subjects. I started off by pointing to documented evidence of conferences going down, and popular bloggers and people who track this stuff talking about how online talks have replaced them, so it is well-known that this trend away from the old conference format is underway. I
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On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 14:20:08 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: they cannot compare (as in apples to oranges) to high-bandwidth low latency personal communication with all the people that have an interest (business, technical, whatever) and technical expertise in the subject at hand. Then why don't we tweak the schedule to maximize the time spent on this stuff?! When pressed, everyone says their favorite part is what happens outside the talks... so I say we bring more of that inside the talk time too. I'd be pretty happy if we just experimented with more interactive stuff during the talks, like I proposed in my last message. We do that kind of stuff at my day job in-person retreats and it is pretty successful. (Though I'd prefer to go further away, this acts as a kind of compromise position.)
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On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 10:59:32 UTC, Joakim wrote: You say that like some superior technology exists to replace the conference. It does, read the first link I gave in my first post above. You mean the one that says "I don’t know how to fix conferences"? Yes, DConf may benefit from tutorials, workshops, BoFs, whatever, but the value it brings to the community is very real. It may bring some value, but that's not the question: the question is whether we could get more value out of the alternatives, particularly at a cheaper cost? The fact that you and others keep avoiding this question suggests you know the answer. That really depends on the objective function you mean by "more value". "social networks, Slack groups, podcasts, and YouTube" are all well and good but they cannot compare (as in apples to oranges) to high-bandwidth low latency personal communication with all the people that have an interest (business, technical, whatever) and technical expertise in the subject at hand. Hardly. IME there are two kinds of conferences (or maybe they form a spectrum, whatever) academic and industrial. Academic is going nowhere, research needs presenting, organisation of collaboration needs to happen. Research conferences are irrelevant. I don't pay attention to them and the fact that the Haskell link Atila gave above says their conferences are for presenting research is one big reason why almost nobody uses that PL in industry. I concede that I find PL theory useless, but not all academic conferences are PL theory, and I don't think that the potential scope for more academic talks of DConf is limited to PL theory. Novel applications of D in anything from physics to bioinformatics to optimisations based on immutability to DSELs enabled by D's meta programming are all possible in an academic setting. Industrial, there is project coordination, employment prospectus, business opportunities, why do you think companies sponsor conferences? They get their moneys worth out of it. Clearly not in the iOS community, and according to a commenter in my second link above, the Javascript community in his country, as the number of tech conferences is going down a lot. It is my impression that this is true across the board for pretty much every tech community, but I presented that iOS link because he actually tallies the evidence. I don't doubt those numbers and perhaps the other forms of communication do lessen the need for multiple conferences per year, but there is a large difference from many to one compared to one to zero, in person communication cannot be easily replaced. Industrial sponsorship is definitely real, take a look at the side column of http://llvm.org/devmtg/2018-10/ which I went to and talked to the authors of https://github.com/wsmoses/Tapir-LLVM for potentially targeting OpenMP and other parallel runtimes with dcompute, talked to the people developing the SPIR-V target of LLVM, the list goes on. I'm going to EuroLLVM (Brussels) to continue those conversations, followed straight away by ACCU (Bristol) to give a talk about meta programming with D in the context of developing and using DCompute. Then a few weeks later I'll be going to DConf for many reasons but principally to coordinate development, deal with the gripes that have accumulated. I'll probably return home via Boston for IWOCL (OpenCL). Perhaps you as an individual believe that they are not cost effective for you, fine. As I keep repeating, this is not about me. I'm pointing out trends for _most_ devs, DConf has been growing in size every year it has been held, as have IWOCL and the LLVM conferences. I'm sure some topics for some conferences are declining, it may well even be an industry wide trend, but I'd bet good money that the new equilibrium will have conferences as a staple. my own preferences are irrelevant. I certainly hope not. But consider that the foundation reimburses speakers and I personally would be very interested to hear what you have been doing with Andoird/ARM and I'm sure many others would as well, the question becomes: is it worth your time? I don't understand what's so special about "speakers" that it couldn't simply reimburse non-speakers that the foundation wants at one of the decentralized locations instead. It seems like the talk is a made-up excuse to pay for some members of the core team to come, when the real reason is to collaborate with them. Why not dispense with that subterfuge? The talks together with the topic of the conference are what draw people to the conference and make it economically viable. It is a perfectly rational decision. If I was running a conference trying to turn a profit I'd probably get more applications for the available speaker slots => better quality speakers => more attendees => $$$. DCompute would not exist were it not for that reimbursement, as a poor student that made the
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On 12/23/2018 2:59 AM, Joakim wrote: I wish those organizing DConf would focus on that more. You're free to organize D meetups and conferences as you see fit. Heck, C++ has many conferences, run by different organizations with different ideas on how to do it. Nothing wrong with that. Even Andrei and I and some others put on our own C++ conference about 10 years ago.
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On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 09:51:58 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 08:08:59 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 06:54:26 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Others have cited Rust and Go. I shall cite Python, Ruby, Groovy, Java, Kotlin, Clojure, Haskell, all of which have thriving programming language oriented conferences all over the world. Then there are the Linux conferences, GStreamer conferences, conference all about specific technologies rather than programming languages. And of course there is ACCU. There is much more evidence that the more or less traditional conference format serves a purpose for people, and are remaining very successful. Many of these conferences make good profits, so are commercially viable. That's all well and good, but none of this addresses the key points of whether there are less tech conferences being done and whether they make sense in this day and age. There are still people riding in horse and carriage, that doesn't mean it's still a good idea. :) You say that like some superior technology exists to replace the conference. It does, read the first link I gave in my first post above. Yes, DConf may benefit from tutorials, workshops, BoFs, whatever, but the value it brings to the community is very real. It may bring some value, but that's not the question: the question is whether we could get more value out of the alternatives, particularly at a cheaper cost? The fact that you and others keep avoiding this question suggests you know the answer. Thus I reject the fundamental premise of your position that the conference format is dying off. It isn't. The proof is there. Yes, the proof is there: the conference is dying. Hardly. IME there are two kinds of conferences (or maybe they form a spectrum, whatever) academic and industrial. Academic is going nowhere, research needs presenting, organisation of collaboration needs to happen. Research conferences are irrelevant. I don't pay attention to them and the fact that the Haskell link Atila gave above says their conferences are for presenting research is one big reason why almost nobody uses that PL in industry. Industrial, there is project coordination, employment prospectus, business opportunities, why do you think companies sponsor conferences? They get their moneys worth out of it. Clearly not in the iOS community, and according to a commenter in my second link above, the Javascript community in his country, as the number of tech conferences is going down a lot. It is my impression that this is true across the board for pretty much every tech community, but I presented that iOS link because he actually tallies the evidence. That is a canary in the coal mine for the conference format, that the largest burgeoning dev market on the planet has a dying conference scene. Perhaps you as an individual believe that they are not cost effective for you, fine. As I keep repeating, this is not about me. I'm pointing out trends for _most_ devs, my own preferences are irrelevant. But consider that the foundation reimburses speakers and I personally would be very interested to hear what you have been doing with Andoird/ARM and I'm sure many others would as well, the question becomes: is it worth your time? I don't understand what's so special about "speakers" that it couldn't simply reimburse non-speakers that the foundation wants at one of the decentralized locations instead. It seems like the talk is a made-up excuse to pay for some members of the core team to come, when the real reason is to collaborate with them. Why not dispense with that subterfuge? I see little value in a full talk about a port to a new platform like Android, that is basically another linux distro with a different libc. It's not a matter of my time, I don't think it's worth the audience's time. I wish those organizing DConf would focus on that more.
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On 12/23/2018 1:36 AM, Russel Winder wrote: If people want to have a DConf, it is not your position to tell them they cannot. No worries, we're full steam ahead on DConf 2019. I, for one, am greatly looking forward to it and seeing everybody.
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On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 09:36:19 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 08:08 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] This questioning of iOS is so removed from reality that it makes me question if you are qualified to comment on this matter at all. iOS is the largest consumer software platform that is still growing, as it's estimated to bring in twice the revenue of google's Play store (that doesn't count other Android app stores, but they wouldn't make up the gap): Fair enough I have no interest in iOS at all. But you must agree that you are clearly so far removed from the reality of putting on technical conferences generally, that you are not qualified to make assertions such as "conferences are a dead form". You could make various arguments for why they're still having less and less conferences, as my second link above listing them does. But to argue that iOS is not doing well is so ludicrous that it suggests you don't know much about these tech markets. Ludicrous is a good description of the entire situation in this thread. You are making assertions as though they are facts, working on the principle that if you shout long enough and loud enough, people will stop disagreeing. A classic technique. […] Yes, the proof is there: the conference is dying. You simply don't want to admit it. This is just assertions with no data and thus is a religious position. And I know conferences are thriving, you just do not want to admit that. This seems to be a religious issue for you, with your bizzare assertions above, so I'll stop engaging with you now. No it is you that has faith in the death of conferences, I am involved in the reality of conferences being a relevant thing that people want to attend. Just because you do not want to go to conferences doesn't give you the right to try and stop others from doing so. If you are going to stop ranting on this, I think that will make a lot of people very happy. The idea of this email list is to announce things, not debate things. Also on the debating lists the idea is to have a collaborative not combative debate about things. That includes if some people want to do something they should be allowed to do it and not be harangued from the wings. If people want to have a DConf, it is not your position to tell them they cannot. Your statements above are so ridiculous that they refute themselves, no need for me to do so. :) As for your final ridiculous characterization that I'm "ranting/haranguing" people on this matter, I have only ever presented evidence and reasons for why the DConf format doesn't make sense. If that's "ranting" to you, it's clear you don't understand reasoned debate. In this thread, all I've asked is why all those reasons were ignored, as Mike never gave any arguments for why those reasons aren't worth heeding. Walter's response suggests he never read my suggestions or reasons in the first place. Nobody is telling "anyone they cannot," as though any of us have that power. Rather, I'm trying to figure out how this decision was made, in the face of all the reasons given and almost none given for maintaining the status quo.
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On 12/22/2018 10:20 PM, Joakim wrote: Honestly, yours are routinely the worst presentations at DConf. Your strength as a presenter is when you dig deeply into a bunch of technical detail or present some new technical paradigm, similar to Andrei. Yet, your DConf keynotes usually go the exact opposite route and go very lightly over not very much at all. Eh, I went pretty far into the DIP 1000 material. 1) Ditch in-person presentations for pre-recorded talks that people watch on their own time. Getting everybody in the same room in London to silently watch talks together is a horrible waste, that only made sense before we all had high-speed internet-connected TVs and smartphones with good cameras. Do a four-day hackathon instead, ie mostly collaboration, not passive viewing. It's very different listening to a presentation live rather than pre-recorded. There are the before and after interactions they inspire. 2) Rather than doing a central DConf that most cannot justify attending, do several locations, eg in the cities the core team already lives in, like Boston, Seattle, San Jose, Hong Kong, etc. This makes it cost-effective for many more people to attend, and since you'll have ditched the in-person tech talks, spend the time introducing the many more attendees to the language or have those who already know it work on the language/libraries, ie something like the current DConf hackathon. London is the most cost-effective destination for most D team members. For distributed meetings, there have been several D meetups that do what you suggest. While fun and valuable, they're not a replacement for DConf. 3) Get the core team together as a separate event, either as an offline retreat or online video conference or both. I know you guys need to meet once in awhile, but it makes no sense to spend most of that in-person time at DConf staring at talks that could be viewed online later. If you ever came to one, you might see it differently. While I find it questionable to say that they couldn't easily find and recruit those people online, given that D is primarly an online project where most everything and everyone is easily available online, I see no reason why any of the changes above would stop that. There's a very clear connection between DConf and successful collaborations with industry and D developers. Why mess with success? It seems clear to me that you, at the very least, have not engaged with the links and ideas I've been providing about why the current DConf format is broken. Your opinions would have more weight if (1) you've ever attended a DConf and (2) can point to successful instantiations of your theories. My fundamental point is that the current DConf conference format is an outdated relic, that made sense decades ago when getting everybody together in a room in Berlin was a fantastic way to get everybody connected. With the ready availability of high-speed internet and video displays to everybody who can afford to pay the registration fee and go to London, that hoary conference format needs to be rethought for the internet age. I have no problem with anybody disagreeing with my suggestions or the reasoning behind them, but I find it flabbergasting for anyone to suggest, as Mike has above, that the old conference format still makes sense, especially given the documented evidence of it declining. People *like* conferences. You can buy a Led Zeppelin CD or spend to see them live and enjoy it with the crowd. Maybe you'll go backstage and meet & greet. Which would you rather do? BTW, another point for the presentations is that we cover the air fare and hotel expenses for the presenters. Quite a lot of people have been able to attend because of this. It's our way of giving a little bit back to strong contributors.
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On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 08:08:59 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 06:54:26 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Others have cited Rust and Go. I shall cite Python, Ruby, Groovy, Java, Kotlin, Clojure, Haskell, all of which have thriving programming language oriented conferences all over the world. Then there are the Linux conferences, GStreamer conferences, conference all about specific technologies rather than programming languages. And of course there is ACCU. There is much more evidence that the more or less traditional conference format serves a purpose for people, and are remaining very successful. Many of these conferences make good profits, so are commercially viable. That's all well and good, but none of this addresses the key points of whether there are less tech conferences being done and whether they make sense in this day and age. There are still people riding in horse and carriage, that doesn't mean it's still a good idea. :) You say that like some superior technology exists to replace the conference. Yes, DConf may benefit from tutorials, workshops, BoFs, whatever, but the value it brings to the community is very real. Thus I reject the fundamental premise of your position that the conference format is dying off. It isn't. The proof is there. Yes, the proof is there: the conference is dying. Hardly. IME there are two kinds of conferences (or maybe they form a spectrum, whatever) academic and industrial. Academic is going nowhere, research needs presenting, organisation of collaboration needs to happen. Industrial, there is project coordination, employment prospectus, business opportunities, why do you think companies sponsor conferences? They get their moneys worth out of it. Perhaps you as an individual believe that they are not cost effective for you, fine. But consider that the foundation reimburses speakers and I personally would be very interested to hear what you have been doing with Andoird/ARM and I'm sure many others would as well, the question becomes: is it worth your time?
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On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 08:08 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] > > This questioning of iOS is so removed from reality that it makes > me question if you are qualified to comment on this matter at > all. iOS is the largest consumer software platform that is still > growing, as it's estimated to bring in twice the revenue of > google's Play store (that doesn't count other Android app stores, > but they wouldn't make up the gap): Fair enough I have no interest in iOS at all. But you must agree that you are clearly so far removed from the reality of putting on technical conferences generally, that you are not qualified to make assertions such as "conferences are a dead form". > You could make various arguments for why they're still having > less and less conferences, as my second link above listing them > does. But to argue that iOS is not doing well is so ludicrous > that it suggests you don't know much about these tech markets. Ludicrous is a good description of the entire situation in this thread. You are making assertions as though they are facts, working on the principle that if you shout long enough and loud enough, people will stop disagreeing. A classic technique. […] > Yes, the proof is there: the conference is dying. You simply > don't want to admit it. This is just assertions with no data and thus is a religious position. And I know conferences are thriving, you just do not want to admit that. > This seems to be a religious issue for you, with your bizzare > assertions above, so I'll stop engaging with you now. No it is you that has faith in the death of conferences, I am involved in the reality of conferences being a relevant thing that people want to attend. Just because you do not want to go to conferences doesn't give you the right to try and stop others from doing so. If you are going to stop ranting on this, I think that will make a lot of people very happy. The idea of this email list is to announce things, not debate things. Also on the debating lists the idea is to have a collaborative not combative debate about things. That includes if some people want to do something they should be allowed to do it and not be harangued from the wings. If people want to have a DConf, it is not your position to tell them they cannot. -- Russel. === Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
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On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 06:54:26 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Sat, 2018-12-22 at 13:46 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] Given that this conference format is dying off, is there any explanation for why the D team wants to continue this antiquated ritual? https://marco.org/2018/01/17/end-of-conference-era http://subfurther.com/blog/2018/01/15/the-final-conf-down/ https://forum.dlang.org/thread/ogrdeyojqzosvjnth...@forum.dlang.org […] So iOS conferences are a dying form. Maybe because iOS is a dying form? This questioning of iOS is so removed from reality that it makes me question if you are qualified to comment on this matter at all. iOS is the largest consumer software platform that is still growing, as it's estimated to bring in twice the revenue of google's Play store (that doesn't count other Android app stores, but they wouldn't make up the gap): https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/apples-app-store-revenue-nearly-double-that-of-google-play-in-first-half-of-2018/ You could make various arguments for why they're still having less and less conferences, as my second link above listing them does. But to argue that iOS is not doing well is so ludicrous that it suggests you don't know much about these tech markets. Your evidence of the failure of the iOS community to confer is not evidence of the failure of the conference in other communities. I never said they fail to confer, I said they're doing it much less, because the format is not relevant anymore. Others have cited Rust and Go. I shall cite Python, Ruby, Groovy, Java, Kotlin, Clojure, Haskell, all of which have thriving programming language oriented conferences all over the world. Then there are the Linux conferences, GStreamer conferences, conference all about specific technologies rather than programming languages. And of course there is ACCU. There is much more evidence that the more or less traditional conference format serves a purpose for people, and are remaining very successful. Many of these conferences make good profits, so are commercially viable. That's all well and good, but none of this addresses the key points of whether there are less tech conferences being done and whether they make sense in this day and age. There are still people riding in horse and carriage, that doesn't mean it's still a good idea. :) Thus I reject the fundamental premise of your position that the conference format is dying off. It isn't. The proof is there. Yes, the proof is there: the conference is dying. You simply don't want to admit it. This seems to be a religious issue for you, with your bizzare assertions above, so I'll stop engaging with you now.
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On Sat, 2018-12-22 at 13:46 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > […] > Given that this conference format is dying off, is there any > explanation for why the D team wants to continue this antiquated > ritual? > > https://marco.org/2018/01/17/end-of-conference-era > http://subfurther.com/blog/2018/01/15/the-final-conf-down/ > https://forum.dlang.org/thread/ogrdeyojqzosvjnth...@forum.dlang.org […] So iOS conferences are a dying form. Maybe because iOS is a dying form? Your evidence of the failure of the iOS community to confer is not evidence of the failure of the conference in other communities. Others have cited Rust and Go. I shall cite Python, Ruby, Groovy, Java, Kotlin, Clojure, Haskell, all of which have thriving programming language oriented conferences all over the world. Then there are the Linux conferences, GStreamer conferences, conference all about specific technologies rather than programming languages. And of course there is ACCU. There is much more evidence that the more or less traditional conference format serves a purpose for people, and are remaining very successful. Many of these conferences make good profits, so are commercially viable. Thus I reject the fundamental premise of your position that the conference format is dying off. It isn't. The proof is there. -- Russel. === Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 22:13:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/22/2018 6:26 AM, Atila Neves wrote: If you don't like conferences you don't have to go. I for one am excited about being in London in May. Please don't sour it for other who think/feel like I do. That's right. And hefting a pint with Atila is guaranteed to be a highlight of the conference! I recommend it for those who haven't had the pleasure. I'm sure he's fun to be around, the question is whether it's worth the cost of flying to London. That said, I think we've probably tried to cram too many presentations into the schedule. We should probably have fewer and put gaps between them for people to digest and talk about them. The question is if it's worth doing in-person presentations at all. Also, I try to make my presentations less "I lecture and you listen silently" to be much more interactive and engaging with you guys. I suggest others planning a presentation to also think along those lines. Honestly, yours are routinely the worst presentations at DConf. Your strength as a presenter is when you dig deeply into a bunch of technical detail or present some new technical paradigm, similar to Andrei. Yet, your DConf keynotes usually go the exact opposite route and go very lightly over not very much at all. Reading through your listed benefits of DConf below tells me you didn't read anything I wrote in the linked forum thread above from months ago, as nowhere did I say not to get people together in person at all, which is where most of your benefits come from. Rather, I made three primary suggestions for how to get people together instead: 1) Ditch in-person presentations for pre-recorded talks that people watch on their own time. Getting everybody in the same room in London to silently watch talks together is a horrible waste, that only made sense before we all had high-speed internet-connected TVs and smartphones with good cameras. Do a four-day hackathon instead, ie mostly collaboration, not passive viewing. 2) Rather than doing a central DConf that most cannot justify attending, do several locations, eg in the cities the core team already lives in, like Boston, Seattle, San Jose, Hong Kong, etc. This makes it cost-effective for many more people to attend, and since you'll have ditched the in-person tech talks, spend the time introducing the many more attendees to the language or have those who already know it work on the language/libraries, ie something like the current DConf hackathon. 3) Get the core team together as a separate event, either as an offline retreat or online video conference or both. I know you guys need to meet once in awhile, but it makes no sense to spend most of that in-person time at DConf staring at talks that could be viewed online later. Some other advantages of DConf off the top of my head, in no particular order: 1. putting a face and name to the person greatly helps working with people remotely the rest of the year Maybe, but only 2) above mitigates it somewhat, and is it worth the cost? 2. it's amazing how intractable, obstinate online positions just melt away when discussed in person over a beer 1) and 3) enable that more, 2) sacrifices that for greater outreach. 3. it's fun to see what other people are doing, as it's easy to miss what's important by just monitoring the n.g. 1) and 3) enable that more, 2) sacrifices it somewhat. 4. I regard all you folks as my friends, and it's fun to be with y'all Is that more important than outreach and getting things done? 5. many, many collaborations have spawned from meeting like minded individuals at DConf They still would with the suggestions above, just differently. 6. employers come to DConf looking for D developers, and many D developers have gotten jobs from them. If that isn't a win-win, I don't know what is! While I find it questionable to say that they couldn't easily find and recruit those people online, given that D is primarly an online project where most everything and everyone is easily available online, I see no reason why any of the changes above would stop that. It seems clear to me that you, at the very least, have not engaged with the links and ideas I've been providing about why the current DConf format is broken. My fundamental point is that the current DConf conference format is an outdated relic, that made sense decades ago when getting everybody together in a room in Berlin was a fantastic way to get everybody connected. With the ready availability of high-speed internet and video displays to everybody who can afford to pay the registration fee and go to London, that hoary conference format needs to be rethought for the internet age. I have no problem with anybody disagreeing with my suggestions or the reasoning behind them, but I find it flabbergasting for anyone to suggest, as Mike has above, that the old conference format
Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition
On 12/22/2018 7:11 AM, Joakim wrote: I've never been to DConf I suggest actually attending and seeing for yourself.
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On 12/22/2018 6:26 AM, Atila Neves wrote: If you don't like conferences you don't have to go. I for one am excited about being in London in May. Please don't sour it for other who think/feel like I do. That's right. And hefting a pint with Atila is guaranteed to be a highlight of the conference! I recommend it for those who haven't had the pleasure. That said, I think we've probably tried to cram too many presentations into the schedule. We should probably have fewer and put gaps between them for people to digest and talk about them. Also, I try to make my presentations less "I lecture and you listen silently" to be much more interactive and engaging with you guys. I suggest others planning a presentation to also think along those lines. Some other advantages of DConf off the top of my head, in no particular order: 1. putting a face and name to the person greatly helps working with people remotely the rest of the year 2. it's amazing how intractable, obstinate online positions just melt away when discussed in person over a beer 3. it's fun to see what other people are doing, as it's easy to miss what's important by just monitoring the n.g. 4. I regard all you folks as my friends, and it's fun to be with y'all 5. many, many collaborations have spawned from meeting like minded individuals at DConf 6. employers come to DConf looking for D developers, and many D developers have gotten jobs from them. If that isn't a win-win, I don't know what is!
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 23:00, Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > On 12/22/18 10:47 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote: > > On 2018-12-22 12:18:25 +, Mike Parker said: > > > >> Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're > >> still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks > >> and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it any > >> longer. > > > > Hi, you should consider the upcoming Brexit chaos, which is expect to > > have a high impact on all airlines. Currently I wouldn't bet that all > > parties involved get things sorted out until May... > > > > I very much doubt that Brexit will cause anything approaching choas > insofar as airlines are concerned. Currently all international flights > are governed by the Montreal Convention which was signed by the > individual states of the EU and not the EU itself, and the ICAO which is > a UN function. They will remain in force regardless of the UK's status > vis-a-vis Brexit. There may be the additional annoyance of EU folks > having to pass through passport control depending on the final > disposition of Brexit, but that's probably it. > I do not yet know whether if I enter the UK, that I will be allowed to leave. :-) -- Iain
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On 12/22/2018 5:33 AM, Russel Winder wrote: it's on at the exact same time as DevoxxUK 2019 which is at the Business Design Centre. :-( Please inform DevoxxUK they need to shift their schedule.
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On 12/22/18 10:47 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2018-12-22 12:18:25 +, Mike Parker said: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it any longer. Hi, you should consider the upcoming Brexit chaos, which is expect to have a high impact on all airlines. Currently I wouldn't bet that all parties involved get things sorted out until May... I very much doubt that Brexit will cause anything approaching choas insofar as airlines are concerned. Currently all international flights are governed by the Montreal Convention which was signed by the individual states of the EU and not the EU itself, and the ICAO which is a UN function. They will remain in force regardless of the UK's status vis-a-vis Brexit. There may be the additional annoyance of EU folks having to pass through passport control depending on the final disposition of Brexit, but that's probably it. Chaos is a persuasion word that has zero measurable technical meaning, it's purpose is to allow your mind to fill it's space with your worst nightmares. Whenever I see it in the news I assume that the writer is ideologically opposed to whatever event the writer is describing and lacks any evidence to back up their claims. Airlines have had years to prepare for Brexit, and humans are generally pretty good at avoiding disasters that they've know about for years. My guess is that on Brexit day you won't even notice, save having to pass through an automated passport kiosk. -- Adam Wilson IRC: EllipticBit import quiet.dlang.dev;
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 18:47:40 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2018-12-22 12:18:25 +, Mike Parker said: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it any longer. Hi, you should consider the upcoming Brexit chaos, which is expect to have a high impact on all airlines. Currently I wouldn't bet that all parties involved get things sorted out until May... I would be happy to bet they do. The EU and US are already agreed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46380463
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 17:13:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: We like the current format and see no need to change it at this time. That's all it really comes down to. Y'all like it. But the time and money COULD be put to far better use. Consider this: keep the same schedule, but the talks change from being 50 minutes of awkward power point to being: 15 minutes - the talk part. Speaker introduces the topic and proposes something for everyone to work on. 20 minutes - the conference attendees split into a few work-sized groups and do something about the proposed topic. Maybe mini-hackathon. Maybe just discuss it. Maybe toy around with the stuff. The speaker wanders around groups to help guide them as needed and see what they are talking about. 15 minutes - The speaker goes up front again to share what was learned from the groups. Open discussion is encouraged. If appropriate, an action plan is decided upon. It concludes with a feeling of accomplishment. All topics and talk handouts and powerpoints MUST be made public ahead of time for people who want to study it and have some thoughts prepared going into it. For example, let's look at last year's first few talks. 1, memory safety. Walter introduces the problem and the new features. The groups spend the work session actually trying the feature. Try it on your code. Try to break it. Talk about how you hate it in your little group, whatever, just get hands-on in-person. Then, Walter could come back and demonstrate the stuff (basically the same as the second half of his old slides) for everyone - with the group's comments added. When we get to the last slide with "more work to do", the audience knows this - they might have even filed some bugs from their experience already! Hackathon work lined up. BetterC talk? Basically ditto. So what's the advantage here over just lecturing? * The audience is more engaged. Many people learn more by doing than by just watching. * The work groups can mingle a bit and maybe get to know each other and learn from each other. (I'd randomize these a little.) * Everyone trying it together means they may be able to write bug reports, get more insight into DIPs, be prepared to review PRs since they have at least SOME experience. * People's questions will be more refined at the end of the talk. Pretty small tweak to the current format - and not all talks need to be the same, just a new option here - and I think it would make a lot more out of the in-person time.
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On 2018-12-22 12:18:25 +, Mike Parker said: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it any longer. Hi, you should consider the upcoming Brexit chaos, which is expect to have a high impact on all airlines. Currently I wouldn't bet that all parties involved get things sorted out until May... -- Robert M. Münch http://www.saphirion.com smarter | better | faster
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:57:10 UTC, Joakim wrote:
As I recall, you largely agreed with me:
That is true, and I still do regarding many points (though not
all). But this is not the point I wanted to make. I don't
consider my opinion that important. I simply wanted to point out
why the D team probably decided against your suggestion.
I'm not trying to discuss it with you or the community. I'm
asking the D team who're making this decision why it's being
made, despite all the reasoning in that thread, and reiterating
that it's a bad move. I suspect they're not thinking this
through, but they can speak for themselves.
I do understand your wish for them to explain the reasons for
their decision. And in my opinion the reasoning so far has indeed
been a bit poor ("your arguments were not convincing"). Maybe The
D team can give some more details about why they value the
traditional conference format more than your suggestion.
By the way, if you are still interested in implementing your
suggested conference format (I'm getting the feeling that you are
getting a bit frustrated :(), it might be more promising to not
replace DConf with it, but instead make it an additional event
(maybe in autumn). If you are interested in discussing more ideas
about this, I'd gladly participate.
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 17:36:08 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:57:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:35:27 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote: Also I don't think this is the right place for this discussion. If you feel that we indeed need to rediscuss this issue, I think it should be done in a separate thread. I'm not trying to discuss it with you or the community. I'm asking the D team [...] Then why post in the announce thread? If you don’t feel your previous thread got your message through, you know how to reach the foundation. Why wouldn't I post in here? There's currently a 84-post thread in this Announce forum discussing Atila's blog post about what D got wrong. Similarly, this is the thread where the topic is the next DConf. I almost never send private emails over community matters, which should be discussed publicly. I don’t understand how you can argue against technical conferences so much if you never attended one, much less DConf. I didn't say I never attended one, I probably sat through something back in my college days. I watch some conf videos now and then, but like most techies these days, don't find any value in going. I know the odds are slim, but I hope to meet you there someday. I'd like to meet you too, but I think if it happens, it won't ever be at an outdated format like the current DConf. :P
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:57:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:35:27 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote: Also I don't think this is the right place for this discussion. If you feel that we indeed need to rediscuss this issue, I think it should be done in a separate thread. I'm not trying to discuss it with you or the community. I'm asking the D team [...] Then why post in the announce thread? If you don’t feel your previous thread got your message through, you know how to reach the foundation. I don’t understand how you can argue against technical conferences so much if you never attended one, much less DConf. I know the odds are slim, but I hope to meet you there someday. Bastiaan.
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 17:13:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:57:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: I'm not trying to discuss it with you or the community. I'm asking the D team who're making this decision why it's being made, despite all the reasoning in that thread, and reiterating that it's a bad move. I suspect they're not thinking this through, but they can speak for themselves. The decision was made because your reasoning failed to convince anyone involved in the planning that maintaining the current format of DConf is a mistake. Nor do they agree with you that it's a bad move. We like the current format and see no need to change it at this time. I see, so you admit no reasoning was involved on your part? Because you present none, either there or here. If you would like to carry on another debate about this, please open another thread in thhe General forum. This one isn't the place for it. Thanks! As I just noted, I don't care to "debate" it with people who make no arguments. Instead, I'm asking you or whoever made this horrible decision why it's being made. If it's such a great idea, that should be an easy case to make, compared to the alternatives given. Yet all I get is a bunch of stone-walling, suggesting no reasoning was actually involved, just blindly aping others and the past.
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:57:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: I'm not trying to discuss it with you or the community. I'm asking the D team who're making this decision why it's being made, despite all the reasoning in that thread, and reiterating that it's a bad move. I suspect they're not thinking this through, but they can speak for themselves. The decision was made because your reasoning failed to convince anyone involved in the planning that maintaining the current format of DConf is a mistake. Nor do they agree with you that it's a bad move. We like the current format and see no need to change it at this time. If you would like to carry on another debate about this, please open another thread in thhe General forum. This one isn't the place for it. Thanks!
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:35:27 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 15:11:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 14:26:29 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 13:46:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 12:18:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The egregious waste of time and resources of this DConf format strongly signals that D is not a serious effort to build a used language, It's the same signal being emitted by all of these "failures" as well: Go: https://twitter.com/dgryski/status/1034939523736600576 Rust: https://rustconf.com/ Clojure: https://clojure.org/community/events Haskell: https://wiki.haskell.org/Conferences C++: https://cppcon.org/ https://cpponsea.uk/ http://cppnow.org/ https://meetingcpp.com/ etc. To me it's obvious from that short list that took me less than 5min to come up with that conferences aren't a dying format. I gave up on C++ conferences after the 4th link, there are just too many. The fact that a short list of conferences still exists at all somehow makes it "obvious" to you that they're not dying? Did you even look at my second link that actually tallies some numbers for a particular tech market? It is true that a few conferences are still being done, even my second link above never said they're _all_ gone. But simply saying some are still following this outdated ritual is not an argument for continuing it, nor does it contradict anything I said about the number of conferences going down. If you don't like conferences you don't have to go. This has nothing do me: I've never been to DConf or most any other tech conference and likely never will. This is about whether the D team should be wasting time with this dying format. I for one am excited about being in London in May. Please don't sour it for other who think/feel like I do. Heh, so that's your two big arguments for why the conference format should continue: other languages are doing it and you want to visit London in May? You are exemplifying the mindset that I'm pointing out with these flimsy arguments, everything that is wrong with D and DConf. We talked a great deal about this in your thread (https://forum.dlang.org/thread/ogrdeyojqzosvjnth...@forum.dlang.org). I believe the main takeaway from that discussion was that many of us disagree with your opinion to at least some degree. As I recall, you largely agreed with me: "I totally agree with you on your first point, i.e. making DConf more interactive." "I disagree with your second point, i.e. decentralising DConf... On the other hand, I have to admit that decentralising the event would open it up for a much bigger audience, which definitely is a good idea." https://forum.dlang.org/post/omsxuayxkaqbxeobe...@forum.dlang.org I know that you are very convinced about your idea of how we should do DConf being superior and that is OK. Maybe you are just ahead of time in this case, I don't know. But it is also a fact that many people stated that they actually enjoy the current DConf format very much and believe it is not a waste of time and money at all. So to me, it is no surprise at all that it was decided to to stick with the current format. I really don't care how many people agree or disagree. All I care about is the reasoning presented. As I see it, I gave lots of good reasons, and like Atila here, they gave none: only "I enjoyed myself." That's not a worthwhile reason, if the goal is to further the D language and community. Also I don't think this is the right place for this discussion. If you feel that we indeed need to rediscuss this issue, I think it should be done in a separate thread. I'm not trying to discuss it with you or the community. I'm asking the D team who're making this decision why it's being made, despite all the reasoning in that thread, and reiterating that it's a bad move. I suspect they're not thinking this through, but they can speak for themselves.
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 15:11:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 14:26:29 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 13:46:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 12:18:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The egregious waste of time and resources of this DConf format strongly signals that D is not a serious effort to build a used language, It's the same signal being emitted by all of these "failures" as well: Go: https://twitter.com/dgryski/status/1034939523736600576 Rust: https://rustconf.com/ Clojure: https://clojure.org/community/events Haskell: https://wiki.haskell.org/Conferences C++: https://cppcon.org/ https://cpponsea.uk/ http://cppnow.org/ https://meetingcpp.com/ etc. To me it's obvious from that short list that took me less than 5min to come up with that conferences aren't a dying format. I gave up on C++ conferences after the 4th link, there are just too many. The fact that a short list of conferences still exists at all somehow makes it "obvious" to you that they're not dying? Did you even look at my second link that actually tallies some numbers for a particular tech market? It is true that a few conferences are still being done, even my second link above never said they're _all_ gone. But simply saying some are still following this outdated ritual is not an argument for continuing it, nor does it contradict anything I said about the number of conferences going down. If you don't like conferences you don't have to go. This has nothing do me: I've never been to DConf or most any other tech conference and likely never will. This is about whether the D team should be wasting time with this dying format. I for one am excited about being in London in May. Please don't sour it for other who think/feel like I do. Heh, so that's your two big arguments for why the conference format should continue: other languages are doing it and you want to visit London in May? You are exemplifying the mindset that I'm pointing out with these flimsy arguments, everything that is wrong with D and DConf. We talked a great deal about this in your thread (https://forum.dlang.org/thread/ogrdeyojqzosvjnth...@forum.dlang.org). I believe the main takeaway from that discussion was that many of us disagree with your opinion to at least some degree. I know that you are very convinced about your idea of how we should do DConf being superior and that is OK. Maybe you are just ahead of time in this case, I don't know. But it is also a fact that many people stated that they actually enjoy the current DConf format very much and believe it is not a waste of time and money at all. So to me, it is no surprise at all that it was decided to to stick with the current format. Also I don't think this is the right place for this discussion. If you feel that we indeed need to rediscuss this issue, I think it should be done in a separate thread.
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 14:26:29 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 13:46:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 12:18:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The egregious waste of time and resources of this DConf format strongly signals that D is not a serious effort to build a used language, It's the same signal being emitted by all of these "failures" as well: Go: https://twitter.com/dgryski/status/1034939523736600576 Rust: https://rustconf.com/ Clojure: https://clojure.org/community/events Haskell: https://wiki.haskell.org/Conferences C++: https://cppcon.org/ https://cpponsea.uk/ http://cppnow.org/ https://meetingcpp.com/ etc. To me it's obvious from that short list that took me less than 5min to come up with that conferences aren't a dying format. I gave up on C++ conferences after the 4th link, there are just too many. The fact that a short list of conferences still exists at all somehow makes it "obvious" to you that they're not dying? Did you even look at my second link that actually tallies some numbers for a particular tech market? It is true that a few conferences are still being done, even my second link above never said they're _all_ gone. But simply saying some are still following this outdated ritual is not an argument for continuing it, nor does it contradict anything I said about the number of conferences going down. If you don't like conferences you don't have to go. This has nothing do me: I've never been to DConf or most any other tech conference and likely never will. This is about whether the D team should be wasting time with this dying format. I for one am excited about being in London in May. Please don't sour it for other who think/feel like I do. Heh, so that's your two big arguments for why the conference format should continue: other languages are doing it and you want to visit London in May? You are exemplifying the mindset that I'm pointing out with these flimsy arguments, everything that is wrong with D and DConf.
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 13:46:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 12:18:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The egregious waste of time and resources of this DConf format strongly signals that D is not a serious effort to build a used language, It's the same signal being emitted by all of these "failures" as well: Go: https://twitter.com/dgryski/status/1034939523736600576 Rust: https://rustconf.com/ Clojure: https://clojure.org/community/events Haskell: https://wiki.haskell.org/Conferences C++: https://cppcon.org/ https://cpponsea.uk/ http://cppnow.org/ https://meetingcpp.com/ etc. To me it's obvious from that short list that took me less than 5min to come up with that conferences aren't a dying format. I gave up on C++ conferences after the 4th link, there are just too many. If you don't like conferences you don't have to go. I for one am excited about being in London in May. Please don't sour it for other who think/feel like I do.
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On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 12:18:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it any longer. I've updated the DConf site and published a blog post, but I ask that you please don't share this to reddit just yet. I want to wait until after Christmas to share it there. We're still ironing out some details (deadlines, prices, hotels) and I'll update the DConf site in the coming days with info as I get it. Happy Holidays! http://dconf.org/2019/index.html https://dlang.org/blog/2018/12/22/dconf-2019-shepherds-pie-edition/ Given that this conference format is dying off, is there any explanation for why the D team wants to continue this antiquated ritual? https://marco.org/2018/01/17/end-of-conference-era http://subfurther.com/blog/2018/01/15/the-final-conf-down/ https://forum.dlang.org/thread/ogrdeyojqzosvjnth...@forum.dlang.org It costs $3k to hire a pull request manager, something D desperately needed, yet here you are having the average conference participant spend that mostly on flights and hotels to go to London, only to stare silently at presentations most of the time, while surrounded by a room full of people. What are the possible priorities that this can be considered a good idea? The egregious waste of time and resources of this DConf format strongly signals that D is not a serious effort to build a used language, but a hobby project by two tech retirees, W, who just want to prototype some different ideas, show it off to a bunch of fellow hobbyists, and then have some beers and go sight-seeing. If this is the core team's goal, please just stop stating otherwise and broadcast this on the front page of the website, as you're essentially doing by the way this blog post was written. Giant companies like google or Microsoft can afford these antiquated, giant wastes of time known as conferences and even they are cutting back. The fact that the D team is moving forward with this given how tech is moving is a horrible sign, suggesting it is completely out of touch and unable to prioritize well.
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Brilliant, DConf comes to the UK, I can get to it… except… it's on at the exact same time as DevoxxUK 2019 which is at the Business Design Centre. :-( -- Russel. === Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
