• Jesse Phillips (14/14) Jun 10 2016 After this year's DConf I started to wonder if it could be
• Seb (6/17) Jun 10 2016 How about organizing local D conferences? It could be DConf
• Adrian Matoga (7/21) Jun 10 2016 That's what local or national conferences are for. Still, even in
• Dave (2/16) Jun 10 2016 against reading subtitles?
• Walter Bright (4/7) Jun 10 2016 We hope to have them subtitled / close captioned in the future, which wi...

Jesse Phillips <Jesse.K.Phillips+D gmail.com> writes:

After this year's DConf I started to wonder if it could be 
beneficial to provide a slot during the conference where the 
speaker would do his presentation in a language other than 
English.

I realize that many are like me and would not be able to consume 
such information, which is why the suggestion is to limit talks 
from other languages.

My hope would be that it would help produce more language 
information content outside of English and strengthen those 
communities. Possibly uniting communities we don't see, but still 
center around D.

This isn't for me, such an idea is not helpful for me. Is there 
anyone in a position who could speak to this being a reasonable 
thing to try?

Seb <seb wilzba.ch> writes:

On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 21:31:36 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
 After this year's DConf I started to wonder if it could be 
 beneficial to provide a slot during the conference where the 
 speaker would do his presentation in a language other than 
 English.

 I realize that many are like me and would not be able to 
 consume such information, which is why the suggestion is to 
 limit talks from other languages.

 My hope would be that it would help produce more language 
 information content outside of English and strengthen those 
 communities. Possibly uniting communities we don't see, but 
 still center around D.

How about organizing local D conferences? It could be DConf 
Europe or even more specific like DConf Japan.

This is very common & popular in the JS community:

http://jsconf.com

Let's make that happen!

Adrian Matoga <dlang.spam matoga.info> writes:

On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 21:31:36 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
 After this year's DConf I started to wonder if it could be 
 beneficial to provide a slot during the conference where the 
 speaker would do his presentation in a language other than 
 English.

 I realize that many are like me and would not be able to 
 consume such information, which is why the suggestion is to 
 limit talks from other languages.

 My hope would be that it would help produce more language 
 information content outside of English and strengthen those 
 communities. Possibly uniting communities we don't see, but 
 still center around D.

 This isn't for me, such an idea is not helpful for me. Is there 
 anyone in a position who could speak to this being a reasonable 
 thing to try?

That's what local or national conferences are for. Still, even in 
such ones people often prefer to use English (I've seen it in 
Portugal and Poland), as CS vocabulary for other languages is 
usually awkward, non-consistent or non-existent, and it feels 
even more awkward to use English verbs and nouns interspersed 
with your native prepositions.

Dave <david.dave dave.com> writes:

On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 21:31:36 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
 After this year's DConf I started to wonder if it could be 
 beneficial to provide a slot during the conference where the 
 speaker would do his presentation in a language other than 
 English.

 I realize that many are like me and would not be able to 
 consume such information, which is why the suggestion is to 
 limit talks from other languages.

 My hope would be that it would help produce more language 
 information content outside of English and strengthen those 
 communities. Possibly uniting communities we don't see, but 
 still center around D.

 This isn't for me, such an idea is not helpful for me. Is there 
 anyone in a position who could speak to this being a reasonable 
 thing to try?

against reading subtitles?

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 6/10/2016 2:31 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
 After this year's DConf I started to wonder if it could be beneficial to
provide
 a slot during the conference where the speaker would do his presentation in a
 language other than English.


We hope to have them subtitled / close captioned in the future, which will help 
our deaf and ESL viewers. It will also mean that transcripts can be made, which 
will help people who don't have the time to watch them.