Jonathan M Davis Posted in reply to Walter Bright



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On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 13:17:02 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > I am happy to announce that there will be a special addition to this > year's DConf. > > The conference will not end after the three days of talks but > continue on into Sunday for a hackathon during which people can > collaboratively focus on long-lasting problems and pain points in the D > ecosystem. Of course, any D hackers who wish to simply progress their own > personal projects are welcome too! Sociomantic has once again been an > amazing host and reserved the same venue (Heimathafen) for this day as > well. > > The motivation for adding a D ecosystem hackathon (besides having fun) > is that a lot of time is wasted due to communication latency because most > people can only hack during the night or weekends. At last year’s DConf, > the “birds of feather” groups were intended to reduce this communication > problem, but sadly the scheduling didn’t quite provide enough time. Thus, > the DConf 2017 hackathon isn't a hackathon in the tradition sense as most > of the time and focus will hopefully be spent discussing, planning and > developing future D projects. > > More details will follow shortly and will be announced here and on > dconf.org LOL. I booked my flight and hotel back in December, and my flight was for Sunday. Fortunately, after seeing this, I was able to change it, even if it wasn't free (though the flight was actually cheaper on Monday, so that took a bite out of the change fee). So, I guess that planning ahead cost me. :) - Jonathan M Davis