digitalmars.D - DConf 2013 Call for Submissions: deadline on January 28
- Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> Jan 15 2013
- "mist" <none none.none> Jan 15 2013
- "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> Jan 15 2013
- "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> Jan 15 2013
- Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> Jan 16 2013
- "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> Jan 15 2013
- Philippe Sigaud <philippe.sigaud gmail.com> Jan 16 2013
- "mist" <none none.none> Jan 16 2013
- "Jesse Phillips" <Jessekphillips+D gmail.com> Jan 16 2013
- "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> Jan 16 2013
- "Era Scarecrow" <rtcvb32 yahoo.com> Jan 16 2013
- "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell bigpond.com> Jan 16 2013
- "Jesse Phillips" <Jesse.K.Phillips+D gmail.com> Jan 16 2013
- "deadalnix" <deadalnix gmail.com> Jan 16 2013
- "Dejan Lekic" <dejan.lekic gmail.com> Jan 17 2013
- Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> Jan 17 2013
- "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp progtools.org> Jan 17 2013
- Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools.org> Jan 18 2013
- "Mike Parker" <aldacron gmail.com> Jan 17 2013
- dennis luehring <dl.soluz gmx.net> Jan 17 2013
- Robert BuRnEr Schadek <realburner gmx.de> Jan 20 2013
- Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> Jan 20 2013
- Martin Nowak <code dawg.eu> Mar 18 2013
- Robert Schadek <realburner gmx.de> Mar 19 2013
- "Era Scarecrow" <rtcvb32 yahoo.com> Jan 17 2013
- "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> Jan 17 2013
- Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> Jan 17 2013
- Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Jan 17 2013
- "F i L" <witte2008 gmail.com> Jan 20 2013
- "mist" <none none.none> Jan 21 2013
- =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> Jan 27 2013
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
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
Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> 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
What's the daily schedule of the conference look like? Is it a 9-5 deal each day?
Jan 15 2013
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
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 15:55:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:Hello everyone,
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
--20cf307f3a56cfd6e804d378ea1b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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'; --20cf307f3a56cfd6e804d378ea1b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 1= 7 January 2013 09:27, Dejan Lekic <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:d= ejan.lekic gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">dejan.lekic gmail.com</a>></span=wrote:<br>
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Jan 17 2013
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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"?
Mar 19 2013
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bump... Submission deadline is January 28: http://dconf.org/ Ali
Jan 27 2013