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reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
I just arrived home after 4 days of little sleep and dawn to late night talking 
with fellow D-heads. And the conference was ...


!!AWESOME!!


.. It exceeded my highest hopes. Basically, I had a grand time, and I hope you 
guys did, too. The excitement at the conference was palpable. Anyone needing 
help was deluged with offers, many hatchets got buried (amazing how meeting the 
real person behind an online persona does that!), many new friends made and 
collaborations formed, rvalue references resolved, and lots was learned from
the 
variety and depth of the presentations.

I want to shout out to Facebook for hosting and providing smooth and well-oiled 
conference logistics (and great food & gallons of coffee!), Sociomantic's and 
Remedy's and Andrew Edwards' generous sponsorship along with the many other 
kickstarters, without whom this conference would not have been possible.

And, of course, thanks to our speakers who packed 3 days wall to wall with high 
quality talks. Other conferences I've attended tended to fade away the last
day, 
but this one ran at full power right to the end. Thanks to our attendees for 
making it worthwhile for the speakers to come. Many of the speakers were first 
timers, and were treated to a most friendly and eager audience.

Yes, the talks were recorded and will be made available online. We hope to get 
some photos up soon, too.

We'll definitely be doing one next year, so start roughing out your 
presentations now!
May 04 2013
next sibling parent "Nicholas Londey" <londey gmail.com> writes:
Congratulations on the conference. Am very much looking forward 
to watching all the session recordings. :)
May 04 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent "Simen Kjaeraas" <simen.kjaras gmail.com> writes:
On Sat, 04 May 2013 10:11:26 +0200, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote:


 I just arrived home after 4 days of little sleep and dawn to late night  
 talking with fellow D-heads. And the conference was ...


 !!AWESOME!!


 .. It exceeded my highest hopes. Basically, I had a grand time, and I  
 hope you guys did, too. The excitement at the conference was palpable.  
 Anyone needing help was deluged with offers, many hatchets got buried  
 (amazing how meeting the real person behind an online persona does  
 that!), many new friends made and collaborations formed, rvalue  
 references resolved, and lots was learned from the variety and depth of  
 the presentations.

 I want to shout out to Facebook for hosting and providing smooth and  
 well-oiled conference logistics (and great food & gallons of coffee!),  
 Sociomantic's and Remedy's and Andrew Edwards' generous sponsorship  
 along with the many other kickstarters, without whom this conference  
 would not have been possible.

 And, of course, thanks to our speakers who packed 3 days wall to wall  
 with high quality talks. Other conferences I've attended tended to fade  
 away the last day, but this one ran at full power right to the end.  
 Thanks to our attendees for making it worthwhile for the speakers to  
 come. Many of the speakers were first timers, and were treated to a most  
 friendly and eager audience.

 Yes, the talks were recorded and will be made available online. We hope  
 to get some photos up soon, too.

 We'll definitely be doing one next year, so start roughing out your  
 presentations now!


Sounds great. Hope to be there next year.

-- 
Simen
May 04 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent Timon Gehr <timon.gehr gmx.ch> writes:
On 05/04/2013 10:11 AM, Walter Bright wrote:

 I just arrived home after 4 days of little sleep and dawn to late night
 talking with fellow D-heads. And the conference was ...


 !!AWESOME!!


 .. It exceeded my highest hopes. Basically, I had a grand time, and I
 hope you guys did, too. The excitement at the conference was palpable.
 Anyone needing help was deluged with offers, many hatchets got buried
 (amazing how meeting the real person behind an online persona does
 that!), many new friends made and collaborations formed, rvalue
 references resolved, and lots was learned from the variety and depth of
 the presentations.

 I want to shout out to Facebook for hosting and providing smooth and
 well-oiled conference logistics (and great food & gallons of coffee!),
 Sociomantic's and Remedy's and Andrew Edwards' generous sponsorship
 along with the many other kickstarters, without whom this conference
 would not have been possible.

 And, of course, thanks to our speakers who packed 3 days wall to wall
 with high quality talks. Other conferences I've attended tended to fade
 away the last day, but this one ran at full power right to the end.
 Thanks to our attendees for making it worthwhile for the speakers to
 come. Many of the speakers were first timers, and were treated to a most
 friendly and eager audience.

 Yes, the talks were recorded and will be made available online. We hope
 to get some photos up soon, too.

 We'll definitely be doing one next year, so start roughing out your
 presentations now!


Looking forward to the recordings.
What is the strategy adopted for rvalue references?
May 04 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
On Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 08:11:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 I just arrived home after 4 days of little sleep and dawn to 
 late night talking with fellow D-heads. And the conference was 
 ...

 !!AWESOME!!


Expected no less from this wonderful group of people, but sounds 
like it turned out even better than we could have imagined. 
Congratulations to all and here's looking forwards to all the 
presentation videos! :-)
May 04 2013
parent "Szymon Gatner" <noemail gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 09:52:53 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling 
wrote:

 On Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 08:11:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 I just arrived home after 4 days of little sleep and dawn to 
 late night talking with fellow D-heads. And the conference was 
 ...

 !!AWESOME!!


 Expected no less from this wonderful group of people, but 
 sounds like it turned out even better than we could have 
 imagined. Congratulations to all and here's looking forwards to 
 all the presentation videos! :-)


Can't wait for them too, all those tweets just made me jealous :P
May 04 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:
Am 04.05.2013 10:11, schrieb Walter Bright:

 I just arrived home after 4 days of little sleep and dawn to late night
 talking with fellow D-heads. And the conference was ...


 !!AWESOME!!


 .. It exceeded my highest hopes. Basically, I had a grand time, and I
 hope you guys did, too. The excitement at the conference was palpable.
 Anyone needing help was deluged with offers, many hatchets got buried
 (amazing how meeting the real person behind an online persona does
 that!), many new friends made and collaborations formed, rvalue
 references resolved, and lots was learned from the variety and depth of
 the presentations.

 I want to shout out to Facebook for hosting and providing smooth and
 well-oiled conference logistics (and great food & gallons of coffee!),
 Sociomantic's and Remedy's and Andrew Edwards' generous sponsorship
 along with the many other kickstarters, without whom this conference
 would not have been possible.

 And, of course, thanks to our speakers who packed 3 days wall to wall
 with high quality talks. Other conferences I've attended tended to fade
 away the last day, but this one ran at full power right to the end.
 Thanks to our attendees for making it worthwhile for the speakers to
 come. Many of the speakers were first timers, and were treated to a most
 friendly and eager audience.

 Yes, the talks were recorded and will be made available online. We hope
 to get some photos up soon, too.

 We'll definitely be doing one next year, so start roughing out your
 presentations now!


Congratulations!

Looking forward for the presentations. :)
May 04 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent "Tavi Cacina" <octavian.cacina outlook.com> writes:
On Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 08:11:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 !!AWESOME!!


Great, congratulations!
May 04 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Dicebot" <m.strashun gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 08:11:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 ...


Even reading random quotes in twitter #dconf feed was enough to 
understand this conference has totally rocked :)
May 04 2013
parent reply =?UTF-8?Q?Klaim_=2D_Jo=C3=ABl_Lamotte?= <mjklaim gmail.com> writes:
Can't wait to see the conferences videos! Are there any release dates and
web location where to find them once released?

Joel Lamotte
May 04 2013
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 5/4/2013 4:16 AM, Klaim - Joël Lamotte wrote:

 Can't wait to see the conferences videos! Are there any release dates and web
 location where to find them once released?


It'll be on the dconf.org site, but no date yet.
May 04 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent "Namespace" <rswhite4 googlemail.com> writes:
I can hardly wait to read your solution to rvalue references. :)
May 04 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 05/04/2013 01:11 AM, Walter Bright wrote:


 !!AWESOME!!


Somehow it felt even better than that. :)

Ali
May 04 2013
parent "Tyro[17]" <nospam home.com> writes:
On 5/4/13 11:40 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 On 05/04/2013 01:11 AM, Walter Bright wrote:

  > !!AWESOME!!

 Somehow it felt even better than that. :)

 Ali


Several flights and delays later and I'm just getting home. The high 
from the conference kept me up each leg of the trip back to NC. Feels 
like a morphine shot that lasted the entire trip home. Where's the Doc 
when you need more?

Andrew
May 04 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent "MIke Linford" <mike.linford gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 08:11:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 I just arrived home after 4 days of little sleep and dawn to 
 late night talking with fellow D-heads. And the conference was 
 ...


 !!AWESOME!!


 .. It exceeded my highest hopes. Basically, I had a grand time, 
 and I hope you guys did, too. The excitement at the conference 
 was palpable. Anyone needing help was deluged with offers, many 
 hatchets got buried (amazing how meeting the real person behind 
 an online persona does that!), many new friends made and 
 collaborations formed, rvalue references resolved, and lots was 
 learned from the variety and depth of the presentations.

 I want to shout out to Facebook for hosting and providing 
 smooth and well-oiled conference logistics (and great food & 
 gallons of coffee!), Sociomantic's and Remedy's and Andrew 
 Edwards' generous sponsorship along with the many other 
 kickstarters, without whom this conference would not have been 
 possible.

 And, of course, thanks to our speakers who packed 3 days wall 
 to wall with high quality talks. Other conferences I've 
 attended tended to fade away the last day, but this one ran at 
 full power right to the end. Thanks to our attendees for making 
 it worthwhile for the speakers to come. Many of the speakers 
 were first timers, and were treated to a most friendly and 
 eager audience.

 Yes, the talks were recorded and will be made available online. 
 We hope to get some photos up soon, too.

 We'll definitely be doing one next year, so start roughing out 
 your presentations now!


I had a wonderful time and it was great meeting everyone and 
enjoying the presentations. Thanks again for having me :-)
May 04 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:
On Saturday, May 04, 2013 01:11:26 Walter Bright wrote:

 I just arrived home after 4 days of little sleep and dawn to late night
 talking with fellow D-heads. And the conference was ...
 
 
 !!AWESOME!!
 
 
 .. It exceeded my highest hopes. Basically, I had a grand time, and I hope
 you guys did, too. The excitement at the conference was palpable.


It was indeed awesome and far better than I had anticipated. The talks were 
incredibly informative (sometimes even in areas that I thought that I knew 
quite well), and a lot of good discussions took place. It's amazing how 
different it can be to discuss things in person, and I think that we all 
benefited from it.


 Anyone
 needing help was deluged with offers, many hatchets got buried


One cool thing along these lines that Iain told me about was that after his 
gdc talk, someone came up to him and just offered him a mac mini that they'd 
had lying around! He didn't ask any money for it. He just asked for Iain to 
make gdc awesome. Iain was blown away by that.

We've got a great community with a lot of enthusiasm, and with plenty of 
people willing to donate time and money (as was shown with kickstarter). We 
could always use more help, but who and what we have is great.


 (amazing how
 meeting the real person behind an online persona does that!)


Yeah. It was very weird to meet a lot of the people around here in person. Now 
I have faces (and voices!) to go with many of the posts around here. It makes 
a surprisingly large difference. In some cases, now I can even hear how some of 
the posters would say what they wrote in their own voice and accent. That 
alone is going to have a large impact on me.

As an interesting side note, I thought that it was interesting that people who 
used the web forum did a better job of recognizing people thanks to the 
gravatars. I use the mailing list, so I don't generally see that, and a lot of 
people recognized me whereas I recognized very few people.


 We'll definitely be doing one next year, so start roughing out your
 presentations now!


I'm definitely looking forward to it. It was a blast this time around, and I 
can't wait for the next one.

- Jonathan M Davis
May 05 2013
next sibling parent "Mike Parker" <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 6 May 2013 at 02:07:39 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:



 Yeah. It was very weird to meet a lot of the people around here 
 in person. Now
 I have faces (and voices!) to go with many of the posts around 
 here. It makes
 a surprisingly large difference. In some cases, now I can even 
 hear how some of
 the posters would say what they wrote in their own voice and 
 accent. That
 alone is going to have a large impact on me.


+100. I loved the presentations, but being able to talk to people 
face-to-face had a much different effect on me than I 
anticipated, and not just in matching voices & faces with forum 
posts. I mentioned to a few people that given where I live and 
that I don't work in the tech industry, I never have a chance to 
discuss anything related to my programming hobby, let alone D. 
Talking face-to-face with so many different people about this 
stuff really motivated me to put more effort into my D projects.

One of my big time sinks is my interest in the free online 
courses offered by coursera.org and edx.org. I've signed up for 
several over the past few months. I've enjoyed studying them and 
have learned a good deal from some of them, but it's all purely 
recreational and has really consumed my free time to a degree I 
underestimated. My time would be better used writing D articles, 
working on Derelict, and getting one of my abandonware games 
completed.

This conference has really restored my enthusiasm for all things 
D. And looking forward to DConf 2014 is going to sustain it.
May 05 2013
prev sibling parent "Leandro Lucarella" <leandro.lucarella sociomantic.com> writes:
On Monday, 6 May 2013 at 02:07:39 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 It was indeed awesome and far better than I had anticipated.


It exceeded my expectations too. Very good conferences and superb
organization and facilities. Thanks for making it happen!
May 16 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
On 6 May 2013 03:07, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> wrote:


 On Saturday, May 04, 2013 01:11:26 Walter Bright wrote:

 I just arrived home after 4 days of little sleep and dawn to late night
 talking with fellow D-heads. And the conference was ...


 !!AWESOME!!


 .. It exceeded my highest hopes. Basically, I had a grand time, and I


 hope

 you guys did, too. The excitement at the conference was palpable.


 It was indeed awesome and far better than I had anticipated. The talks were
 incredibly informative (sometimes even in areas that I thought that I knew
 quite well), and a lot of good discussions took place. It's amazing how
 different it can be to discuss things in person, and I think that we all
 benefited from it.


 Anyone
 needing help was deluged with offers, many hatchets got buried


 One cool thing along these lines that Iain told me about was that after his
 gdc talk, someone came up to him and just offered him a mac mini that
 they'd
 had lying around! He didn't ask any money for it. He just asked for Iain to
 make gdc awesome. Iain was blown away by that.


I still am blown away, and I would have got him many beers had he not been
driving between his home and the conference.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
May 06 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent Manu <turkeyman gmail.com> writes:
Just got home.

I had a great time! I want to thank everyone involved again for the
opportunity to attend and speak at dconf! :)
Meeting everyone in the meat certainly is invaluable, and I like how I can
now read the forum with faces, voices and accents.

Looking forward to the next one! :P


On 4 May 2013 18:11, Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote:


 I just arrived home after 4 days of little sleep and dawn to late night
 talking with fellow D-heads. And the conference was ...


 !!AWESOME!!


 .. It exceeded my highest hopes. Basically, I had a grand time, and I hope
 you guys did, too. The excitement at the conference was palpable. Anyone
 needing help was deluged with offers, many hatchets got buried (amazing how
 meeting the real person behind an online persona does that!), many new
 friends made and collaborations formed, rvalue references resolved, and
 lots was learned from the variety and depth of the presentations.

 I want to shout out to Facebook for hosting and providing smooth and
 well-oiled conference logistics (and great food & gallons of coffee!),
 Sociomantic's and Remedy's and Andrew Edwards' generous sponsorship along
 with the many other kickstarters, without whom this conference would not
 have been possible.

 And, of course, thanks to our speakers who packed 3 days wall to wall with
 high quality talks. Other conferences I've attended tended to fade away the
 last day, but this one ran at full power right to the end. Thanks to our
 attendees for making it worthwhile for the speakers to come. Many of the
 speakers were first timers, and were treated to a most friendly and eager
 audience.

 Yes, the talks were recorded and will be made available online. We hope to
 get some photos up soon, too.

 We'll definitely be doing one next year, so start roughing out your
 presentations now!
May 08 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent "Mike Linford" <mike.linford gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 08:11:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 I just arrived home after 4 days of little sleep and dawn to 
 late night talking with fellow D-heads. And the conference was 
 ...


 !!AWESOME!!


 .. It exceeded my highest hopes. Basically, I had a grand time, 
 and I hope you guys did, too. The excitement at the conference 
 was palpable. Anyone needing help was deluged with offers, many 
 hatchets got buried (amazing how meeting the real person behind 
 an online persona does that!), many new friends made and 
 collaborations formed, rvalue references resolved, and lots was 
 learned from the variety and depth of the presentations.

 I want to shout out to Facebook for hosting and providing 
 smooth and well-oiled conference logistics (and great food & 
 gallons of coffee!), Sociomantic's and Remedy's and Andrew 
 Edwards' generous sponsorship along with the many other 
 kickstarters, without whom this conference would not have been 
 possible.

 And, of course, thanks to our speakers who packed 3 days wall 
 to wall with high quality talks. Other conferences I've 
 attended tended to fade away the last day, but this one ran at 
 full power right to the end. Thanks to our attendees for making 
 it worthwhile for the speakers to come. Many of the speakers 
 were first timers, and were treated to a most friendly and 
 eager audience.

 Yes, the talks were recorded and will be made available online. 
 We hope to get some photos up soon, too.

 We'll definitely be doing one next year, so start roughing out 
 your presentations now!


I'm glad to see that the slides and videos are being posted to 
the dconf site. Are all of the photos going to be put in one 
place on the site? I'd love to get my hands on that "rock star" 
pic of me, Walter, and Andrei :-)
May 08 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
On 9 May 2013 04:35, Manu <turkeyman gmail.com> wrote:


 Just got home.

 I had a great time! I want to thank everyone involved again for the
 opportunity to attend and speak at dconf! :)
 Meeting everyone in the meat certainly is invaluable, and I like how I can
 now read the forum with faces, voices and accents.

 Looking forward to the next one! :P


One welcomes one home. :)


-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
May 09 2013
prev sibling parent Robert Schadek <realburner gmx.de> writes:
+1

Has anyone uploaded their pictures yet? I'm really looking forward to
see them.
May 16 2013