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digitalmars.D.announce - DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

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


Walter and I are hard at work on reviewing DConf 2014 submissions.

We'd like to thank all of you who have submitted. There is not even one 
submission that we found sub-par or unacceptable.

That said, the sheer numbers force us to make hard decisions. Although 
each and every talk is of interest to the community, simple math tells 
us the acceptance rate will be under 50%.

So we'd like to thank all of our submitters and congratulate them for a 
great job. Please bear with us as we'll need to turn down about half of you.


Andrei
Feb 16 2014
next sibling parent reply Rory McGuire <rjmcguire gmail.com> writes:
Great news! In a strange way. Perhaps we could encourage the people that
are not accepted to make videos of their submissions by going to local
universities and asking if they can do a talk there?

Would be an interesting way of promoting D and getting more video media
onto the internet about D.



On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <
SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> wrote:


 Hello,


 Walter and I are hard at work on reviewing DConf 2014 submissions.

 We'd like to thank all of you who have submitted. There is not even one
 submission that we found sub-par or unacceptable.

 That said, the sheer numbers force us to make hard decisions. Although
 each and every talk is of interest to the community, simple math tells us
 the acceptance rate will be under 50%.

 So we'd like to thank all of our submitters and congratulate them for a
 great job. Please bear with us as we'll need to turn down about half of you.


 Andrei
Feb 16 2014
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 2/16/2014 10:21 PM, Rory McGuire wrote:

 Great news! In a strange way. Perhaps we could encourage the people that are
not
 accepted to make videos of their submissions by going to local universities and
 asking if they can do a talk there?

 Would be an interesting way of promoting D and getting more video media onto
the
 internet about D.


I encourage all of them, accepted or not, to also submit their proposals to 
other conferences.
Feb 17 2014
parent =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 02/17/2014 12:18 AM, Walter Bright wrote:


 I encourage all of them, accepted or not, to also submit their proposals
 to other conferences.


Still in Silicon Valley but I think Code Camp is yet another conference 
D should be present at. Twelve tracks, hundreds of speakers and sessions:

   http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Track

Ali
Feb 17 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:
Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is 
already able to generate that much quality content for a yearly 
conference. Somewhat sad part is that a lot of good stuff won't 
be seen because simply publishing talks is not that encouraging 
as hitting DConf itself :)

There are some internal speculations about possibility to host 
smaller european counterpart of DConf at Sociomantic in other 
part of the year but have no idea if something will actually come 
out of it eventually.
Feb 17 2014
next sibling parent "simendsjo" <simendsjo gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 13:45:03 UTC, Dicebot wrote:

 Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is 
 already able to generate that much quality content for a yearly 
 conference. Somewhat sad part is that a lot of good stuff won't 
 be seen because simply publishing talks is not that encouraging 
 as hitting DConf itself :)

 There are some internal speculations about possibility to host 
 smaller european counterpart of DConf at Sociomantic in other 
 part of the year but have no idea if something will actually 
 come out of it eventually.


Having a European conference would be great. Traveling to the US 
is very expensive, and there seems to be plenty of European D 
developers out there.
Feb 17 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent Daniel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Koz=E1k?= <kozzi11 gmail.com> writes:
Dicebot píše v Po 17. 02. 2014 v 13:45 +0000:

 There are some internal speculations about possibility to host 
 smaller european counterpart of DConf at Sociomantic in other 
 part of the year but have no idea if something will actually come 
 out of it eventually.


This would be great! I am unable to go to USA (too expansive and too
far). But if some similar conference would be held in Europe I will be
able to visit such event.
Feb 17 2014
prev sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 2/17/2014 5:45 AM, Dicebot wrote:

 Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is already able to
 generate that much quality content for a yearly conference. Somewhat sad part
is
 that a lot of good stuff won't be seen because simply publishing talks is not
 that encouraging as hitting DConf itself :)


Sure, but there are a lot of programming conferences that are in dire need of 
good material. I strongly encourage everyone doing a speaking proposal,
accepted 
or not, to also make proposals to those other conferences.



 There are some internal speculations about possibility to host smaller european
 counterpart of DConf at Sociomantic in other part of the year but have no idea
 if something will actually come out of it eventually.


I think that's a great idea!
Feb 17 2014
parent reply John Carter <john.carter taitradio.com> writes:
At various academic conferences I have attended they have had "Poster
Sessions" where instead of a formal stand up and talk people put up A0
posters.

The submitter then can stand around to field questions and deeper
discussion from those interested.

Although A0 paper is a bit Old Worlde in this age. Maybe a bunch of screens
to websites containing the "Poster" and slots when you can come around
(physically or online) and chat to the author.

Many a talk I have been to would have seemed a lot better as a poster than
a hour of my life.


I doubly like this ideas as, alas, I will not be able to attend DConf, but
will gladly read online every poster submitted.



On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Walter Bright
<newshound2 digitalmars.com>wrote:


 On 2/17/2014 5:45 AM, Dicebot wrote:


 Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is already able
 to
 generate that much quality content for a yearly conference. Somewhat sad
 part is
 that a lot of good stuff won't be seen because simply publishing talks is
 not
 that encouraging as hitting DConf itself :)


 Sure, but there are a lot of programming conferences that are in dire need
 of good material. I strongly encourage everyone doing a speaking proposal,
 accepted or not, to also make proposals to those other conferences.



  There are some internal speculations about possibility to host smaller

 european
 counterpart of DConf at Sociomantic in other part of the year but have no
 idea
 if something will actually come out of it eventually.


 I think that's a great idea!




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Feb 17 2014
parent "Rikki Cattermole" <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 21:28:24 UTC, John Carter wrote:

 At various academic conferences I have attended they have had 
 "Poster
 Sessions" where instead of a formal stand up and talk people 
 put up A0
 posters.

 The submitter then can stand around to field questions and 
 deeper
 discussion from those interested.

 Although A0 paper is a bit Old Worlde in this age. Maybe a 
 bunch of screens
 to websites containing the "Poster" and slots when you can come 
 around
 (physically or online) and chat to the author.


Back in 2012 I attended CITRENZ conference and won the best 
student post award. It was in the format of an interactive 
poster. In other words I had a screen with the actual poster 
(digital form) as well as a mini presentation where by I was 
demonstrating brain computer interface (BCI) technology and 
explaining its significance.

Other posters were actually in paper form. I believe it was A0. 
Not all were part of the competition. A lot were for pre paper 
demonstration of research.

Something like this would be rather neat to have. That way those 
who can't be there or cannot do a talk, can present something 
without taking up much time.


 Many a talk I have been to would have seemed a lot better as a 
 poster than
 a hour of my life.


 I doubly like this ideas as, alas, I will not be able to attend 
 DConf, but
 will gladly read online every poster submitted.
Feb 17 2014
prev sibling parent Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:
On 2/16/14, 10:55 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 Hello,


 Walter and I are hard at work on reviewing DConf 2014 submissions.

 We'd like to thank all of you who have submitted. There is not even one
 submission that we found sub-par or unacceptable.

 That said, the sheer numbers force us to make hard decisions. Although
 each and every talk is of interest to the community, simple math tells
 us the acceptance rate will be under 50%.

 So we'd like to thank all of our submitters and congratulate them for a
 great job. Please bear with us as we'll need to turn down about half of
 you.


 Andrei


You could put a section called "Lightning Talks" that last for about as 
long as you want (between half an hour and an hour is good), giving each 
participant 5 minutes to talk about their stuff. At least in the lasts 
RubyConf Argentina and Uruguay they had them.

It's not much time, but:

1. It gives those who couldn't talk for more time at least 5 minutes to 
show what they are working on.
2. It allows them to show links, so that interested people can later 
follow their work.
3. It's a fun section of a conference because its fast-paced and the 
audience get to learn about many projects in a very short time.
Feb 17 2014