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digitalmars.D.announce - DConf Online 2020 Submission Deadline Extended

reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
I've received exactly one submission for DConf Online. Two 
keynotes + one talk does not make a conference.

So this is the last call. The deadline has been extended to 
Sunday, September 6 AOE. This makes or breaks the conference. If 
we don't have enough talks submitted, it ain't happening.

So send me your <= 5-minute videos describing your talks, folks!

https://dconf.org/2020/online/index.html
Aug 31 2020
next sibling parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 08:36:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 I've received exactly one submission for DConf Online. Two 
 keynotes + one talk does not make a conference.

 So this is the last call. The deadline has been extended to 
 Sunday, September 6 AOE. This makes or breaks the conference. 
 If we don't have enough talks submitted, it ain't happening.


I've gotten one more submission. We'll need more than that. Let's 
go, folks!
Sep 04 2020
next sibling parent reply FeepingCreature <feepingcreature gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 04:01:43 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 08:36:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 I've received exactly one submission for DConf Online. Two 
 keynotes + one talk does not make a conference.

 So this is the last call. The deadline has been extended to 
 Sunday, September 6 AOE. This makes or breaks the conference. 
 If we don't have enough talks submitted, it ain't happening.


 I've gotten one more submission. We'll need more than that. 
 Let's go, folks!


hi

okay, if I'm literally the only one that's kind of problematic, 
yeah. Let's see how it goes on Sunday.

I'd guess that ... like, either ultimately a structured online 
conference just isn't something people are interested in or think 
is useful, or the effort of recording videos poses too much of a 
roadblock. You wouldn't think that flying to London would be more 
effort than making a video, but it wouldn't surprise me. Or right 
now maybe people are keeping their ideas for the next in-person 
DConf, so if Corona keeps up we'd see more talks next year.

You know what, let's ask. Anyone here who considered submitting 
but didn't, would you share why not?
Sep 05 2020
next sibling parent aberba <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 09:50:44 UTC, FeepingCreature 
wrote:

 On Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 04:01:43 UTC, Mike Parker 
 wrote:

 [...]


 hi

 okay, if I'm literally the only one that's kind of problematic, 
 yeah. Let's see how it goes on Sunday.

 I'd guess that ... like, either ultimately a structured online 
 conference just isn't something people are interested in or 
 think is useful, or the effort of recording videos poses too 
 much of a roadblock. You wouldn't think that flying to London 
 would be more effort than making a video, but it wouldn't 
 surprise me. Or right now maybe people are keeping their ideas 
 for the next in-person DConf, so if Corona keeps up we'd see 
 more talks next year.

 You know what, let's ask. Anyone here who considered submitting 
 but didn't, would you share why not?


Adam said he doesn't know what to talk about.

Part of me is like what could one talk about that's any 
interesting 😂.
Sep 05 2020
prev sibling parent bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:
On Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 09:50:44 UTC, FeepingCreature 
wrote:

 On Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 04:01:43 UTC, Mike Parker 
 wrote:

 On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 08:36:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 I've received exactly one submission for DConf Online. Two 
 keynotes + one talk does not make a conference.

 So this is the last call. The deadline has been extended to 
 Sunday, September 6 AOE. This makes or breaks the conference. 
 If we don't have enough talks submitted, it ain't happening.


 I've gotten one more submission. We'll need more than that. 
 Let's go, folks!


 hi

 okay, if I'm literally the only one that's kind of problematic, 
 yeah. Let's see how it goes on Sunday.

 I'd guess that ... like, either ultimately a structured online 
 conference just isn't something people are interested in or 
 think is useful, or the effort of recording videos poses too 
 much of a roadblock. You wouldn't think that flying to London 
 would be more effort than making a video, but it wouldn't 
 surprise me. Or right now maybe people are keeping their ideas 
 for the next in-person DConf, so if Corona keeps up we'd see 
 more talks next year.

 You know what, let's ask. Anyone here who considered submitting 
 but didn't, would you share why not?


I might have done so, but the pandemic has increased my workload 
so much that my major decisions now involve deciding which parts 
of my job I can't do. Adding something else to the todo list is a 
pre-pandemic concept.

That said, I will be recording videos that involve the use of D, 
it's just that they'll be very specialized applications for my 
grad students rather than some of interest to a general audience.
Sep 06 2020
prev sibling parent =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 9/4/20 9:01 PM, Mike Parker wrote:


 I've gotten one more submission. We'll need more than that. Let's go, 
 folks!


I have a couple of ideas as well but this virus has changed not only 
routines but motivation as well. I am so much behind on so many things. :/

Luckily, there is still a lot of time... hours even... :o)

Ali
Sep 05 2020
prev sibling next sibling parent Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 08:36:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 So send me your <= 5-minute videos describing your talks, folks!


There's basically zero chance of me doing this part specifically.

But on the other hand, between my self-loathing and 
procrastination, I probably won't record a talk video either so 
maybe it is an accurate filter.

One of the "we'll do it live!" options are a bit more appealing 
but I still don't even know what I'd talk about anyway. Like I 
could probably code a website or something but idk, I've been 
meaning to do that for the written blog as well and haven't 
gotten around to it and with the baby only like a week or two 
away now, no promises I will by November at all.
Sep 05 2020
prev sibling parent reply Darren Drapkin <daren.drapkin ntlworld.com> writes:
On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 08:36:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote


 So send me your <= 5-minute videos describing your talks, folks!


I can give you a written submission, but not yet a written one. 
This would be my first D conf even as an attendee. Have seen 
videos of previous sessions, and wanted to go in person this 
year, but the pandemic put paid to that. Since I am not yet a 
professional programmer, have been doing it on and off during a 
long illness, I expect that this will be a low level, and rather 
short talk; anyway here goes...

Coding Kata's in D

In this talk,I intend to show how some very basic features of D 
make the programmer's life easier and the programmer more 
efficient, no objects, no recursion, and only a little maths.

The problem I present, an example of finite integration, is taken 
from the Code and Coffee mailing list of the Codewars website.

If you are not familiar with finite integration, or more likely 
call it something else, a little explanation. Lets say we have 
some apparatus that is generating some signals at a regular 
interval that we know the values of and the, constant time 
between. We also have a theory that describes how the signal 
starts when the apparatus is switched on and how, given a small 
sample of the signal in the past, what we expect the signal to be 
in the near future. Given U at t=0, we want to predict what U is 
at any time, and confirm the theory or reject it.

The kata goes something like this;-
The apparatus gives us the following signals shortly after 
powering up
n=0, U=1
n=1  U=2
then some time, much later,
n=17 U=131072
n=21 U=2097152
We have a theory that relates one signal to the previous signal 
of this form.
6U[n]U[n+1]-5U[n]U[n+2]+U[n+1]U[n+2] = 0

What is the signal at any integer valued time between n = 1 and n 
= 17.
We can do this with only a little algebra, no recursion, and 
certainly not too much confusion.
We re-arrange the theory in the form U[n]=f(U[something])
We write the program using automatic programming.
Then the surprise at the end is that the theory is much simpler 
than it looks.
What do you think ?
--
Yours &c.
Darren Drapkin
Sep 06 2020
parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 13:29:55 UTC, Darren Drapkin wrote:

 On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 08:36:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote


 So send me your <= 5-minute videos describing your talks, 
 folks!





 What do you think ?
 --



Seems interesting! But the purpose of requiring video submissions 
is to make sure that everyone who submits a talk is set up to 
record it. We need to get an idea not only of the content, but 
that you are set up for screencasting (for the slides) and that 
there are no obvious issues with your basic setup. We want to 
catch any of those (such as poor audio quality) before you sit 
down and put together a full talk.

So please submit this as a video. No need for a camera even. A 
screencast with your voice is fine.
Sep 06 2020
parent reply Darren Drapkin <daren.drapkin ntlworld.com> writes:
On Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 13:47:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 13:29:55 UTC, Darren Drapkin 
 wrote:

 On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 08:36:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote


 So send me your <= 5-minute videos describing your talks, 
 folks!








 So please submit this as a video. No need for a camera even. A 
 screencast with your voice is fine.


I will give it a go some time tomorrow, after I have installed 
some video recording apps.
Sep 06 2020
parent reply Darren Drapkin <daren.drapkin ntlworld.com> writes:
On Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 16:07:58 UTC, Darren Drapkin wrote:

 On Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 13:47:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 13:29:55 UTC, Darren Drapkin 
 wrote:

 On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 08:36:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote


 So send me your <= 5-minute videos describing your talks, 
 folks!








 So please submit this as a video. No need for a camera even. A 
 screencast with your voice is fine.


 I will give it a go some time tomorrow, after I have installed 
 some video recording apps.


I was going to do it some time today, Monday 7th, but my system 
keeps wanting to update itself. I should be able to do the 
presentation some time this week, though.
Sep 07 2020
parent reply Darren Drapkin <daren.drapkin ntlworld.com> writes:
On Monday, 7 September 2020 at 15:41:43 UTC, Darren Drapkin wrote:

 On Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 16:07:58 UTC, Darren Drapkin 
 wrote:

 On Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 13:47:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Sunday, 6 September 2020 at 13:29:55 UTC, Darren Drapkin 
 wrote:

 On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 08:36:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote


 So send me your <= 5-minute videos describing your talks, 
 folks!








 So please submit this as a video. No need for a camera even. 
 A screencast with your voice is fine.


 I will give it a go some time tomorrow, after I have installed 
 some video recording apps.


 I was going to do it some time today, Monday 7th, but my system 
 keeps wanting to update itself. I should be able to do the 
 presentation some time this week, though.


What fun, I can record video but not audio, deadline slips again
Sep 10 2020
parent reply Darren Drapkin <daren.drapkin ntlworld.com> writes:
On Thursday, 10 September 2020 at 13:24:53 UTC, Darren Drapkin 
wrote:

 So send me your <= 5-minute videos describing your talks, 
 folks!












Very soon I will be posting it to my github account with a url 
here.
Sep 11 2020
parent Darren Drapkin <daren.drapkin ntlworld.com> writes:
On Friday, 11 September 2020 at 09:30:40 UTC, Darren Drapkin 
wrote:

 On Thursday, 10 September 2020 at 13:24:53 UTC, Darren Drapkin 
 wrote:

 So send me your <= 5-minute videos describing your talks, 
 folks!












 Very soon I will be posting it to my github account with a url 
 here.



OK its on youtube ....

https://youtu.be/Oo6hdY5Xckw
Sep 11 2020