• IGotD- (19/19) Oct 16 2021 The Joker is a card that doesn't really belong to the regular
• Paul Backus (3/7) Oct 16 2021 DConf 2017 had a keynote from Scott Meyers:
• Steven Schveighoffer (6/27) Oct 16 2021 Aside from Scott Meyers (twice), we have had guest keynotes from Martin
• Mike Parker (10/14) Oct 16 2021 Scott Meyers

IGotD- <nise nise.com> writes:

The Joker is a card that doesn't really belong to the regular 
deck of cards. Another term would be "guest seminar". The point 
of such seminar is to invite a person who is working with another 
language than D and can explain how things works and are 
different from D. This can serve as inspiration for future D 
direction as well as encouragement to learn and investigate other 
languages. Any serious software engineer should really dwell into 
several programming languages.

It doesn't need to be a language but also a library that perhaps 
isn't available for D, among other things. Preferably it should 
be an outsider, so that the person isn't biased to much towards D.

This is similar to how I've seen Ali Çehreli do D seminars in a 
conference dedicated to C++. No one seems to mind and think that 
his seminar are interesting and also can give C++ programmers 
another perspective.

I was thinking, shouldn't we have a goal to have at least one 
joker seminar each Dconf?
Have Dconf invited outsiders before?
Do you think this is a good idea?

Paul Backus <snarwin gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 16 October 2021 at 13:17:41 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
 I was thinking, shouldn't we have a goal to have at least one 
 joker seminar each Dconf?
 Have Dconf invited outsiders before?
 Do you think this is a good idea?

DConf 2017 had a keynote from Scott Meyers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WBaY61c9sE

Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:

On 10/16/21 9:17 AM, IGotD- wrote:
 The Joker is a card that doesn't really belong to the regular deck of 
 cards. Another term would be "guest seminar". The point of such seminar 
 is to invite a person who is working with another language than D and 
 can explain how things works and are different from D. This can serve as 
 inspiration for future D direction as well as encouragement to learn and 
 investigate other languages. Any serious software engineer should really 
 dwell into several programming languages.
 
 It doesn't need to be a language but also a library that perhaps isn't 
 available for D, among other things. Preferably it should be an 
 outsider, so that the person isn't biased to much towards D.
 
 This is similar to how I've seen Ali Çehreli do D seminars in a 
 conference dedicated to C++. No one seems to mind and think that his 
 seminar are interesting and also can give C++ programmers another 
 perspective.
 
 I was thinking, shouldn't we have a goal to have at least one joker 
 seminar each Dconf?
 Have Dconf invited outsiders before?
 Do you think this is a good idea?

Aside from Scott Meyers (twice), we have had guest keynotes from Martin 
Odersky (Scala), and we were scheduled to have a keynote from Roberto 
Ierusalimschy (Lua) before Dconf 2020 was cancelled.

I find those talks very fun and informative.

-Steve

Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 16 October 2021 at 14:24:50 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:

 Aside from Scott Meyers (twice), we have had guest keynotes 
 from Martin Odersky (Scala), and we were scheduled to have a 
 keynote from Roberto Ierusalimschy (Lua) before Dconf 2020 was 
 cancelled.

Scott Meyers
2014: https://youtu.be/KAWA1DuvCnQ
2017: https://youtu.be/3WBaY61c9sE

Martin Odersky
2018: https://youtu.be/uiorT754IwA

Others have been invited in other years but declined. I was 
really happy we were able to get Roberto for 2020, and I'm still 
bummed that we had to cancel.