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! > -- John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics PO Box 1645 Christchurch New Zealand -- ------------------------------ This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended recipient. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If you are not an intended recipient, you may not use, disseminate, distribute or reproduce such email, any attachments, or any part thereof. If you have received a message in error, please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message and any attachments. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission nor can we guarantee that any email or any attachments are free from computer viruses or other conditions which may damage or interfere with recipient data, hardware or software. The recipient relies upon its own procedures and assumes all risk of use and of opening any attachments. ------------------------------