Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/16/2014 10:21 PM, Rory McGuire wrote: Great news! In a strange way. Perhaps we could encourage the people that are not accepted to make videos of their submissions by going to local universities and asking if they can do a talk there? Would be an interesting way of promoting D and getting

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Dicebot
Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is already able to generate that much quality content for a yearly conference. Somewhat sad part is that a lot of good stuff won't be seen because simply publishing talks is not that encouraging as hitting DConf itself :) There are

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread simendsjo
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 13:45:03 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is already able to generate that much quality content for a yearly conference. Somewhat sad part is that a lot of good stuff won't be seen because simply publishing talks is not

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Daniel Kozák
Dicebot píše v Po 17. 02. 2014 v 13:45 +: There are some internal speculations about possibility to host smaller european counterpart of DConf at Sociomantic in other part of the year but have no idea if something will actually come out of it eventually. This would be great! I am

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Ali Çehreli
On 02/17/2014 12:18 AM, Walter Bright wrote: I encourage all of them, accepted or not, to also submit their proposals to other conferences. Still in Silicon Valley but I think Code Camp is yet another conference D should be present at. Twelve tracks, hundreds of speakers and sessions:

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/17/2014 5:45 AM, Dicebot wrote: Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is already able to generate that much quality content for a yearly conference. Somewhat sad part is that a lot of good stuff won't be seen because simply publishing talks is not that encouraging as

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread John Carter
At various academic conferences I have attended they have had Poster Sessions where instead of a formal stand up and talk people put up A0 posters. The submitter then can stand around to field questions and deeper discussion from those interested. Although A0 paper is a bit Old Worlde in this

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Ary Borenszweig
On 2/16/14, 10:55 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, Walter and I are hard at work on reviewing DConf 2014 submissions. We'd like to thank all of you who have submitted. There is not even one submission that we found sub-par or unacceptable. That said, the sheer numbers force us to make

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Rikki Cattermole
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 21:28:24 UTC, John Carter wrote: At various academic conferences I have attended they have had Poster Sessions where instead of a formal stand up and talk people put up A0 posters. The submitter then can stand around to field questions and deeper discussion

DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello, Walter and I are hard at work on reviewing DConf 2014 submissions. We'd like to thank all of you who have submitted. There is not even one submission that we found sub-par or unacceptable. That said, the sheer numbers force us to make hard decisions. Although each and every talk is

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-16 Thread Rory McGuire
Great news! In a strange way. Perhaps we could encourage the people that are not accepted to make videos of their submissions by going to local universities and asking if they can do a talk there? Would be an interesting way of promoting D and getting more video media onto the internet about D.