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digitalmars.D - DConf 2013 Call for Submissions: deadline on January 28

reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
Hello everyone,


We're a couple of weeks inside the Call for Submissions for DConf 2013, 
and so far we have collected a few strong proposals but indeed only a few.

I would like to extend an appeal to the talented participants on this 
newsgroup to consider making a talk proposal. At this point there's a 
dearth of submissions, which is paradoxical considering the high numbers 
and quality of the community leaders.

When thinking of a submission, consider that you'd address an audience 
outside and removed from the daily pulse going on in the forum. You may 
assume most nobody in the audience has read the group, articles you or 
others wrote, or has a solid understanding of the language's subtleties. 
Therefore it's very easy to think "meh, I don't have anything 
interesting to share - they all know this stuff as well as I do, if not 
better!" and is a common phenomenon in confined circles (research lab 
would be another example).

If you ever wrote an article on D, consider it an already done 
presentation that just needs translation into slides. There's little 
extra effort needed.

If you're one of the main contributors to the language and its standard 
library, you are virtually socially obligated to submit a talk proposal. 
People will come to hear your insights.

If you're a regular D user, the unique demands and characteristics of 
your project are likely to be of interest.

So I compel you to consider making at least one submission. We have a 
budget, sponsors, a wonderful site - it would be supremely ironic if the 
program was our weak spot. If you are a regular D contributor, consider 
yourself as responsible as anyone for the success of DConf. But I also 
expect to hear (and indeed already have, thank you) from people I'd 
never heard from before.


Thanks,

Andrei
Jan 15 2013
next sibling parent reply "mist" <none none.none> writes:
I'd also like to mention that now video recordings are planned 
and thus actual audience is a lot wider than just conference 
visitors.
Jan 15 2013
parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 1/15/13 11:00 AM, mist wrote:

 I'd also like to mention that now video recordings are planned and thus
 actual audience is a lot wider than just conference visitors.


Thanks! I meant to mention this when starting the message but forgot. It 
is our opportunity, privilege, and obligation to address a worldwide 
audience and get it interested in D. Let's make good use of it.

Andrei
Jan 15 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
What's the daily schedule of the conference look like? Is it a 
9-5 deal each day?
Jan 15 2013
parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 1/15/13 4:01 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 What's the daily schedule of the conference look like? Is it a 9-5 deal
 each day?


Yes, and we'll probably have a reception dinner one night.

Andrei
Jan 15 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 15:55:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Hello everyone,


[snip]

 Andrei


I have a few ideas of some talks e.g.

a 5-10 min beginners crash course on eponymous templates in d,

a short talk discussing the easy speedups of simple scientific 
codes using std.conurrency, std.parallelism and vector operations 
etc. and comparing them to their (at least visually) hideous and 
often non-portable equivalents in c.


The problem is, I live in the UK. It would cost upwards of $800 
for flights alone, which is way outside the sort of money I can 
afford to spend at the moment, so I don't see it happening. As a 
future note, east coast USA would be a lot easier for us 
Europeans.
Jan 15 2013
next sibling parent reply "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 02:21:34 UTC, John Colvin wrote:

 On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 15:55:46 UTC, Andrei 
 Alexandrescu wrote:

 Hello everyone,


 [snip]

 Andrei


 I have a few ideas of some talks e.g.

 a 5-10 min beginners crash course on eponymous templates in d,

 a short talk discussing the easy speedups of simple scientific 
 codes using std.conurrency, std.parallelism and vector 
 operations etc. and comparing them to their (at least visually) 
 hideous and often non-portable equivalents in c.


 The problem is, I live in the UK. It would cost upwards of $800 
 for flights alone, which is way outside the sort of money I can 
 afford to spend at the moment, so I don't see it happening. As 
 a future note, east coast USA would be a lot easier for us 
 Europeans.


P.S. I realise there is an international overflow budget, but 
there are a lot more important people who might need that!
Jan 15 2013
parent reply Philippe Sigaud <philippe.sigaud gmail.com> writes:
One day, we could organize a D conference in Europe :)

There seem to be a good number of people from Europe here.
Jan 16 2013
next sibling parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2013-01-16 11:42, Philippe Sigaud wrote:

 One day, we could organize a D conference in Europe :)

 There seem to be a good number of people from Europe here.


There has already been one, the Tango conference in Poland, 2008. It was 
enough people to become a conference.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Jan 16 2013
prev sibling parent reply "mist" <none none.none> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 10:42:56 UTC, Philippe Sigaud 
wrote:

 One day, we could organize a D conference in Europe :)

 There seem to be a good number of people from Europe here.


Please do! :) Btw do we have someone from European D community 
here, who is familiar with conference organization nitpicks and 
can guide interested ones?
Jan 16 2013
parent reply "Dejan Lekic" <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 11:02:37 UTC, mist wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 10:42:56 UTC, Philippe Sigaud 
 wrote:

 One day, we could organize a D conference in Europe :)

 There seem to be a good number of people from Europe here.


 Please do! :) Btw do we have someone from European D community 
 here, who is familiar with conference organization nitpicks and 
 can guide interested ones?


There will be a conference in London. I have already talked to 
some people from UCL last year because almost all my professors 
(back from when I was studying at KCL) are now part of the CREST 
research team   UCL ... More about CREST: 
http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/

Originally I was thinking about organising it in October 2012, 
but I am extremely busy lately so the plan failed. I did not even 
think about doing it this year though because of the DConf...

Anyway, I can almost guarantee that there will be a D conference 
in London at some point. And we (my friend from CREST and I) will 
try hard to make it more about D and related projects (say 
libraries) in computer science.

Regards
Jan 17 2013
parent Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
On 17 January 2013 09:27, Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic gmail.com> wrote:


 On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 11:02:37 UTC, mist wrote:


 On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 10:42:56 UTC, Philippe Sigaud wrote:


 One day, we could organize a D conference in Europe :)

 There seem to be a good number of people from Europe here.


 Please do! :) Btw do we have someone from European D community here, who
 is familiar with conference organization nitpicks and can guide interested
 ones?


 There will be a conference in London. I have already talked to some people
 from UCL last year because almost all my professors (back from when I was
 studying at KCL) are now part of the CREST research team   UCL ... More
 about CREST: http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/

 Originally I was thinking about organising it in October 2012, but I am
 extremely busy lately so the plan failed. I did not even think about doing
 it this year though because of the DConf...

 Anyway, I can almost guarantee that there will be a D conference in London
 at some point. And we (my friend from CREST and I) will try hard to make it
 more about D and related projects (say libraries) in computer science.

 Regards


I'll see if I can organise a pre-conference party in Brighton. :o)

-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
Jan 17 2013
prev sibling parent reply "Jesse Phillips" <Jessekphillips+D gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 02:21:34 UTC, John Colvin wrote:


 The problem is, I live in the UK. It would cost upwards of $800 
 for flights alone, which is way outside the sort of money I can 
 afford to spend at the moment, so I don't see it happening. As 
 a future note, east coast USA would be a lot easier for us 
 Europeans.


$800 for round trip? Why can't I get that to Japan!!
Jan 16 2013
next sibling parent reply "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 18:55:03 UTC, Jesse Phillips 
wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 02:21:34 UTC, John Colvin 
 wrote:


 The problem is, I live in the UK. It would cost upwards of 
 $800 for flights alone, which is way outside the sort of money 
 I can afford to spend at the moment, so I don't see it 
 happening. As a future note, east coast USA would be a lot 
 easier for us Europeans.


 $800 for round trip? Why can't I get that to Japan!!


 From the UK or the US? Either way it's easily doable for well 
under $1000
Jan 16 2013
parent "Jesse Phillips" <Jesse.K.Phillips+D gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 19:14:12 UTC, John Colvin wrote:

 From the UK or the US? Either way it's easily doable for well 
 under $1000


 From Washington State USA, try doubling that. I'll look harder 
next time, but I jealous.
Jan 16 2013
prev sibling parent reply "Era Scarecrow" <rtcvb32 yahoo.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 18:55:03 UTC, Jesse Phillips 
wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 02:21:34 UTC, John Colvin 
 wrote:


 The problem is, I live in the UK. It would cost upwards of 
 $800 for flights alone, which is way outside the sort of money 
 I can afford to spend at the moment, so I don't see it 
 happening. As a future note, east coast USA would be a lot 
 easier for us Europeans.


 $800 for round trip? Why can't I get that to Japan!!


I remember there was like $300 for a round trip which happened to 
have a stop in japan where I bought a kimono; But I was in Korea 
(and the military) at the time...
Jan 16 2013
next sibling parent "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell bigpond.com> writes:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:19:32 +1100, Era Scarecrow <rtcvb32 yahoo.com>  
wrote:


 On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 18:55:03 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 02:21:34 UTC, John Colvin wrote:


 The problem is, I live in the UK. It would cost upwards of $800 for  
 flights alone, which is way outside the sort of money I can afford to  
 spend at the moment, so I don't see it happening. As a future note,  
 east coast USA would be a lot easier for us Europeans.


 $800 for round trip? Why can't I get that to Japan!!




QQ from Melbourne, Australia. I'm looking at $1100 - $1300 for the flight.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Jan 16 2013
prev sibling parent reply "Mike Parker" <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 21:19:33 UTC, Era Scarecrow 
wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 18:55:03 UTC, Jesse Phillips 
 wrote:

 $800 for round trip? Why can't I get that to Japan!!


 I remember there was like $300 for a round trip which happened 
 to have a stop in japan where I bought a kimono; But I was in 
 Korea (and the military) at the time...


That must have been in the 90s. I've been in Korea for 22 years 
now (lost my military discount on tickets long ago) and ticket 
prices right now are the highest I've ever seen them. I'm looking 
at $2400 for a round-trip to Atlanta next month and am seriously 
considering a flight with three layovers instead. Three years ago 
the same flight at the same time of year cost me $1600. I haven't 
looked into prices to Seattle yet as my schedule likely isn't 
going to allow a trip to DConf (unless I get extremely lucky).
Jan 17 2013
parent "Era Scarecrow" <rtcvb32 yahoo.com> writes:
On Thursday, 17 January 2013 at 10:21:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 21:19:33 UTC, Era Scarecrow 
 wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 18:55:03 UTC, Jesse Phillips 
 wrote:

 $800 for round trip? Why can't I get that to Japan!!


 I remember there was like $300 for a round trip which happened 
 to have a stop in japan where I bought a kimono; But I was in 
 Korea (and the military) at the time...


 That must have been in the 90s. I've been in Korea for 22 years 
 now (lost my military discount on tickets long ago) and ticket 
 prices right now are the highest I've ever seen them. I'm 
 looking at $2400 for a round-trip to Atlanta next month and am 
 seriously considering a flight with three layovers instead. 
 Three years ago the same flight at the same time of year cost 
 me $1600. I haven't looked into prices to Seattle yet as my 
 schedule likely isn't going to allow a trip to DConf (unless I 
 get extremely lucky).


  No, 2006. Course it may have been $600 or $800, but I don't 
remember exactly; I just remember being in worse shape when I 
returned than when I left.
Jan 17 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent "deadalnix" <deadalnix gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 15:55:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Hello everyone,


 We're a couple of weeks inside the Call for Submissions for 
 DConf 2013, and so far we have collected a few strong proposals 
 but indeed only a few.

 I would like to extend an appeal to the talented participants 
 on this newsgroup to consider making a talk proposal. At this 
 point there's a dearth of submissions, which is paradoxical 
 considering the high numbers and quality of the community 
 leaders.

 When thinking of a submission, consider that you'd address an 
 audience outside and removed from the daily pulse going on in 
 the forum. You may assume most nobody in the audience has read 
 the group, articles you or others wrote, or has a solid 
 understanding of the language's subtleties. Therefore it's very 
 easy to think "meh, I don't have anything interesting to share 
 - they all know this stuff as well as I do, if not better!" and 
 is a common phenomenon in confined circles (research lab would 
 be another example).

 If you ever wrote an article on D, consider it an already done 
 presentation that just needs translation into slides. There's 
 little extra effort needed.

 If you're one of the main contributors to the language and its 
 standard library, you are virtually socially obligated to 
 submit a talk proposal. People will come to hear your insights.

 If you're a regular D user, the unique demands and 
 characteristics of your project are likely to be of interest.

 So I compel you to consider making at least one submission. We 
 have a budget, sponsors, a wonderful site - it would be 
 supremely ironic if the program was our weak spot. If you are a 
 regular D contributor, consider yourself as responsible as 
 anyone for the success of DConf. But I also expect to hear (and 
 indeed already have, thank you) from people I'd never heard 
 from before.


 Thanks,

 Andrei


Hi,

As you may know, I'm not 100% sure I can come. I'll be sure of 
that in february. This is why I proposed only a 30 mins talk, so 
someone can back me up.

I'd be happy to have a talk on SDC and make the short talk longer 
but that sound not quite right for me to submit that right now 
given the situation.
Jan 16 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 15:55:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Hello everyone,


 We're a couple of weeks inside the Call for Submissions for 
 DConf 2013, and so far we have collected a few strong proposals 
 but indeed only a few.

 I would like to extend an appeal to the talented participants 
 on this newsgroup to consider making a talk proposal. At this 
 point there's a dearth of submissions, which is paradoxical 
 considering the high numbers and quality of the community 
 leaders.

 When thinking of a submission, consider that you'd address an 
 audience outside and removed from the daily pulse going on in 
 the forum. You may assume most nobody in the audience has read 
 the group, articles you or others wrote, or has a solid 
 understanding of the language's subtleties. Therefore it's very 
 easy to think "meh, I don't have anything interesting to share 
 - they all know this stuff as well as I do, if not better!" and 
 is a common phenomenon in confined circles (research lab would 
 be another example).

 If you ever wrote an article on D, consider it an already done 
 presentation that just needs translation into slides. There's 
 little extra effort needed.

 If you're one of the main contributors to the language and its 
 standard library, you are virtually socially obligated to 
 submit a talk proposal. People will come to hear your insights.

 If you're a regular D user, the unique demands and 
 characteristics of your project are likely to be of interest.

 So I compel you to consider making at least one submission. We 
 have a budget, sponsors, a wonderful site - it would be 
 supremely ironic if the program was our weak spot. If you are a 
 regular D contributor, consider yourself as responsible as 
 anyone for the success of DConf. But I also expect to hear (and 
 indeed already have, thank you) from people I'd never heard 
 from before.


 Thanks,

 Andrei



Although I tend to do quite some posts, I am yet to fully make 
use of D, with most of my work in JVM/.NET languages and FP/C++ 
stuff in some private projects.

So sadly not much I can contribute.

As for attending, the costs are just too high for myself.

--
Paulo
Jan 17 2013
parent reply "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 17 January 2013 at 10:13:12 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 Although I tend to do quite some posts, I am yet to fully make 
 use of D, with most of my work in JVM/.NET languages and FP/C++ 
 stuff in some private projects.

 So sadly not much I can contribute.

 As for attending, the costs are just too high for myself.

 --
 Paulo


You could always give a talk describing a cool use of a feature 
or something like that? If you know the language then well then 
there's almost certainly something you could talk about.

This conference isn't just for presenting big projects. As Andrei 
said, the audience won't be necessarily formed of experts by an 
means, so even something quite simple could be worthwhile.
Jan 17 2013
parent Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> writes:
Am 17.01.2013 19:28, schrieb John Colvin:

 On Thursday, 17 January 2013 at 10:13:12 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 Although I tend to do quite some posts, I am yet to fully make use of
 D, with most of my work in JVM/.NET languages and FP/C++ stuff in some
 private projects.

 So sadly not much I can contribute.

 As for attending, the costs are just too high for myself.

 --
 Paulo


 You could always give a talk describing a cool use of a feature or
 something like that? If you know the language then well then there's
 almost certainly something you could talk about.

 This conference isn't just for presenting big projects. As Andrei said,
 the audience won't be necessarily formed of experts by an means, so even
 something quite simple could be worthwhile.


Am 17.01.2013 19:28, schrieb John Colvin:> On Thursday, 17 January 2013 
at 10:13:12 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

 Although I tend to do quite some posts, I am yet to fully make use of
 D, with most of my work in JVM/.NET languages and FP/C++ stuff in some
 private projects.

 So sadly not much I can contribute.

 As for attending, the costs are just too high for myself.

 --
 Paulo


 You could always give a talk describing a cool use of a feature or
 something like that? If you know the language then well then there's
 almost certainly something you could talk about.

 This conference isn't just for presenting big projects. As Andrei said,
 the audience won't be necessarily formed of experts by an means, so even
 something quite simple could be worthwhile.


Not really, as I mentioned, I tend to spend my programming time in 
another languages/environments.

My focus on the university was compiler design and distributed systems, 
so I tend to follow some language developments with interest.

Sadly my time is limited and I don't always explore all languages as I 
really would like to.

So far my only D program is the D version of a simple buffer management
article I wrote for C++.

http://www.progtools.org/compilers/tutorials/queue/article.html
http://www.progtools.org/compilers/tutorials/queue/queue.d

When life permits I am planing to update the said article to describe 
the D implementation as well.

But very simple stuff.

--
Paulo
Jan 18 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply dennis luehring <dl.soluz gmx.net> writes:
maybe Robert Schadek is available to speak about his "Distributed 
Multithreading Caching D Compiler"

http://www.svs.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/thesis/robert_schadek_dmcd.pdf
Jan 17 2013
parent reply Robert BuRnEr Schadek <realburner gmx.de> writes:
On 01/17/2013 01:45 PM, dennis luehring wrote:

 maybe Robert Schadek is available to speak about his "Distributed
 Multithreading Caching D Compiler"

 http://www.svs.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/thesis/robert_schadek_dmcd.pdf


I already send my proposal
Jan 20 2013
next sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 1/20/13 7:31 AM, Robert BuRnEr Schadek wrote:

 On 01/17/2013 01:45 PM, dennis luehring wrote:

 maybe Robert Schadek is available to speak about his "Distributed
 Multithreading Caching D Compiler"

 http://www.svs.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/thesis/robert_schadek_dmcd.pdf


 I already send my proposal


We have it, thanks!

Andrei
Jan 20 2013
prev sibling parent reply Martin Nowak <code dawg.eu> writes:
On 01/20/2013 01:31 PM, Robert BuRnEr Schadek wrote:

 On 01/17/2013 01:45 PM, dennis luehring wrote:

 maybe Robert Schadek is available to speak about his "Distributed
 Multithreading Caching D Compiler"

 http://www.svs.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/thesis/robert_schadek_dmcd.pdf


 I already send my proposal


Do you have a source repo for "Dalr"?
Mar 18 2013
parent Robert Schadek <realburner gmx.de> writes:
On 03/18/2013 11:17 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:

 On 01/20/2013 01:31 PM, Robert BuRnEr Schadek wrote:

 On 01/17/2013 01:45 PM, dennis luehring wrote:

 maybe Robert Schadek is available to speak about his "Distributed
 Multithreading Caching D Compiler"

 http://www.svs.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/download/thesis/rob
rt_schadek_dmcd.pdf 


 I already send my proposal


 Do you have a source repo for "Dalr"?


yes, see https://github.com/burner/dalr
Mar 19 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:
On 1/15/13, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> wrote:

 snip


How come Remedy was removed as a sponsor from the DConf website? Their
logo was there for a while, now it's gone.
Jan 17 2013
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
Per their request.
Jan 17 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent "F i L" <witte2008 gmail.com> writes:
I have been playing around with UDAs recently and in combination 
with D's meta-programming they allow for some awesome stuff. I 
would love to see a presentation on that. I heard Ian mention 
doing a presentation on the challenges of porting D to 
ARM/Parallella which I think would a be very, very interesting 
talk to a great many people (myself included).

Just ideas.
Jan 20 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent "mist" <none none.none> writes:
Btw, would someone from wiki contributors be interested in doing 
the small talk about new planned release & development process? 
I'd really like to see it widely recognized.
Jan 21 2013
prev sibling parent =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 01/15/2013 07:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:


 We're a couple of weeks inside the Call for Submissions for DConf 2013,
 and so far we have collected a few strong proposals but indeed only a 


few.

Bump... Submission deadline is January 28:

   http://dconf.org/

Ali
Jan 27 2013