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digitalmars.D.announce - DConf 2014 Call for Submissions is now open

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


We are happy to announce the DConf 2014 conference to be held on May 
21-23, 2014 in Menlo Park, CA.

The call for submissions is now open at http://dconf.org. Share away and 
get ideas rolling. Looking forward to your submissions!


Hope to see you soon,

Andrei
Nov 25 2013
next sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 11/25/13 11:25 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 Hello,


 We are happy to announce the DConf 2014 conference to be held on May
 21-23, 2014 in Menlo Park, CA.

 The call for submissions is now open at http://dconf.org. Share away and
 get ideas rolling. Looking forward to your submissions!


 Hope to see you soon,

 Andrei


reddit: 
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1rfqoo/call_for_submissions_the_d_programming_language/

hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6796291

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/750289298318087

twitter: https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/405056126594457600


Andrei
Nov 25 2013
parent reply "qznc" <qznc web.de> writes:
On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 19:31:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Share away and
 get ideas rolling. Looking forward to your submissions!




I wonder if some kind of podium discussion on memory management 
would be a nice idea? Manu "ARC" Evans vs Walter "never-free" 
Bright vs Andrei "allocator" Alexandrescu vs Rainer "Precise" 
Schütze.

On the other hand, I do not know what kind of conclusion could be 
expected of this discussion.
Nov 26 2013
parent "Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:
On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 08:16:05 UTC, qznc wrote:

 On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 19:31:45 UTC, Andrei 
 Alexandrescu wrote:

 Share away and
 get ideas rolling. Looking forward to your submissions!




 I wonder if some kind of podium discussion on memory management 
 would be a nice idea? Manu "ARC" Evans vs Walter "never-free" 
 Bright vs Andrei "allocator" Alexandrescu vs Rainer "Precise" 
 Schütze.

 On the other hand, I do not know what kind of conclusion could 
 be expected of this discussion.


We have this podium discussion pretty often here in NG :P
Nov 26 2013
prev sibling parent reply "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:
On Monday, November 25, 2013 11:25:44 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 Hello,
 
 
 We are happy to announce the DConf 2014 conference to be held on May
 21-23, 2014 in Menlo Park, CA.


Yay!


 The call for submissions is now open at http://dconf.org. Share away and
 get ideas rolling. Looking forward to your submissions!


And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas. :) I could probably answer 
questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk about 
on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...

- Jonathan M Davis
Nov 26 2013
next sibling parent "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:

 And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas. :) I could probably 
 answer
 questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful 
 to talk about
 on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...


Well, you have 'til the end of January ... :-)

Why not talk about exactly that -- about providing effective 
on-list guidance, the kind of things that are simple or tricky to 
deal with, the kind of supporting infrastructure that might be 
helpful for minimizing the number of repeat questions .... I'm 
sure you can extend this list.
Nov 27 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:

 I could probably answer questions about D all day, but
 coming up with something useful to talk about on my own
 never seems to be as easy as it should be...


Me too. I was asked to write a D book recently, and to make the 
list of topics, I just looked over the forums and stack overflow 
questions to see what people were asking about...
Nov 27 2013
parent John J <john.joyus gmail.com> writes:
On 11/27/2013 09:25 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 I could probably answer questions about D all day, but
 coming up with something useful to talk about on my own
 never seems to be as easy as it should be...


 Me too. I was asked to write a D book recently, and to make the list of
 topics, I just looked over the forums and stack overflow questions to
 see what people were asking about...


Congratulations!
Looking forward to that book.
Nov 30 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:
On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:

 And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas. :) I could probably 
 answer
 questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful 
 to talk about
 on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...


I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: What 
qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?". Have honestly 
answered "Nothing" and closed the page. :)

Will try my best to get there as a visitor this time though.
Nov 27 2013
next sibling parent "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 14:37:11 UTC, Dicebot wrote:

 I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: 
 What qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?".


The fact that you are curious about the topic in question, have 
given it some thought and come up with something interesting to 
say? :-) It's not all about degrees and job titles.
Nov 27 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On 11/27/2013 11:37 PM, Dicebot wrote:

 I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: What
 qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?". Have honestly answered
 "Nothing" and closed the page. :)

 Will try my best to get there as a visitor this time though.


I'm sure your standing in the community and your experience with the 
language would be qualification enough. I think, in your particular 
case, you shouldn't let that one field discourage you from submitting :)
Nov 27 2013
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 11/27/2013 8:04 AM, Mike Parker wrote:

 On 11/27/2013 11:37 PM, Dicebot wrote:

 I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: What
 qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?". Have honestly answered
 "Nothing" and closed the page. :)

 Will try my best to get there as a visitor this time though.


 I'm sure your standing in the community and your experience with the language
 would be qualification enough. I think, in your particular case, you shouldn't
 let that one field discourage you from submitting :)


I agree.
Nov 28 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 11/27/13 6:37 AM, Dicebot wrote:

 On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas. :) I could probably answer
 questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk
 about
 on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...


 I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: What
 qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?". Have honestly answered
 "Nothing" and closed the page. :)

 Will try my best to get there as a visitor this time though.


You didn't read through the end: Although this criterion favors 
experienced and well-known submitters, we also very strongly encourage 
submissions from up-and-coming contributors who have accumulated "street 
cred" through their open source and forum contributions.


Andrei
Nov 27 2013
parent Leandro Lucarella <luca llucax.com.ar> writes:
Andrei Alexandrescu, el 27 de November a las 09:46 me escribiste:

 On 11/27/13 6:37 AM, Dicebot wrote:

On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas. :) I could probably answer
questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk
about
on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...


I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: What
qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?". Have honestly answered
"Nothing" and closed the page. :)

Will try my best to get there as a visitor this time though.


 
 You didn't read through the end: Although this criterion favors
 experienced and well-known submitters, we also very strongly
 encourage submissions from up-and-coming contributors who have
 accumulated "street cred" through their open source and forum
 contributions.


Some really great talks in the previous conference were given by
people than never gave a talk before ;)

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Nov 27 2013
prev sibling parent "Dejan Lekic" <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 14:37:11 UTC, Dicebot wrote:

 On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M 
 Davis wrote:

 And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas. :) I could 
 probably answer
 questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful 
 to talk about
 on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...


 I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: 
 What qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?". Have 
 honestly answered "Nothing" and closed the page. :)

 Will try my best to get there as a visitor this time though.


Wrong way of thinking, IMHO - most people who do talks on 
conferences are not the superexperts on some field... 
Furthermore, sometimes people are less qualified do better talks 
as they focus more on "presenting" something to the audience. So 
you do not have to be superqualified, but you have to:
1) like the thing you are presenting
2) be good at presenting

Cheers!
Nov 29 2013
prev sibling parent reply Martin Nowak <code dawg.eu> writes:
On 11/27/2013 06:44 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas.:)  I could probably answer
 questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk about
 on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...


Give a talk about std.datetime.
I think that could produce really good teaching material on how to use 
the module. Also you could explain in more detail when to use the 
different types and what else can be done with the module (or package ;)).
Dec 05 2013
parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 12/5/13 6:34 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:

 On 11/27/2013 06:44 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

 And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas.:)  I could probably answer
 questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk
 about
 on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...


 Give a talk about std.datetime.
 I think that could produce really good teaching material on how to use
 the module. Also you could explain in more detail when to use the
 different types and what else can be done with the module (or package ;)).


"Design patterns derived from std.datetime" would be interesting (all 
that discussion on exceptions, data validation etc).

Andrei
Dec 05 2013
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2013-12-05 17:18, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:


 "Design patterns derived from std.datetime" would be interesting (all
 that discussion on exceptions, data validation etc).


Discussing that over a couple of beers could get interesting :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Dec 05 2013
parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On 12/6/2013 3:59 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On 2013-12-05 17:18, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:


 "Design patterns derived from std.datetime" would be interesting (all
 that discussion on exceptions, data validation etc).


 Discussing that over a couple of beers could get interesting :)


  Only a couple?
Dec 06 2013
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2013-12-06 09:35, Mike Parker wrote:


   Only a couple?


I never said how big they are :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Dec 06 2013
parent reply "eles" <eles eles.com> writes:
On Friday, 6 December 2013 at 10:09:47 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On 2013-12-06 09:35, Mike Parker wrote:



 I never said how big they are :)


http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/09/12/1225919/806894-largest-glass-of-beer.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XZwz2Zhbprk/TiGeoXHygxI/AAAAAAAAHb8/GWyQhp0Stzc/s640/World%25E2%2580%2599s+Largest+Beer+Can.jpg
Dec 06 2013
parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2013-12-06 12:54, eles wrote:


 http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/09/12/1225919/806894-largest-glass-of-beer.jpg


 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XZwz2Zhbprk/TiGeoXHygxI/AAAAAAAAHb8/GWyQhp0Stzc/s640/World%25E2%2580%2599s+Largest+Beer+Can.jpg


Now we're talking :D

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Dec 06 2013