DConf Online 2020 is on!
https://dconf.org/2020/online/index.html
Please note that this is a soft announcement. Please don't share
the website or the announcement on social media just yet. I want
to have a chance to revise the details if needed before we do
that. I'll publish a blog post next week with a more formal
announcement and will share that to the world at large.
Some brief notes about how we currently envision things:
* Pre-recorded talks will be scheduled to premiere at specific
times on our YouTube channel on Saturday and Sunday.
* Speakers in the pre-recorded talks will need to be available
for a livestream Q & A session that will run in parallel to the
talk and for an additional 15 minutes beyond. We'll monitor
multiple sources in addition for questions (the chat in the video
premier, the Q & A livestream chat, slack, discord, IRC).
* If you have ever done any livecoding and enjoy it, please
consider proposing a session for DConf. I'll set up a restreamer
so that you can stream to both your channel of preference and the
foundation's YouTube channel. You'll need to know ahead of time
what your goals for the session are and how you'll achieve them.
If we can have at least one session per day, we'll be very happy.
* We'll have at least one livestreamed panel (the traditional Ask
use Anything) and are eagerly looking for interesting panel ideas.
* I'm hoping to convince a handful of people to organize and run
a #BeerConf starting the day before the conference (Friday the
20th) and going through Sunday.
* Currently planning to kick off around 3:00 PM UTC on Saturday
and Sunday so that folks on the US West Coast don't have to get
up before sunrise to participate. Those of us in Asia will have
to make do.
As the web page says, after the event we'll be launching a new
playlist on the foundation's YouTube channel (The D Community
Presents). It's our goal to accept as many of the DConf
submissions as possible since we aren't physically constrained by
time and space. We want to post *every* pre-recorded talk to
YouTube. Those we don't select to premiere for the conference we
can instead post once a week to the new playlist afterward. And
we'll continue to accept submissions to the playlist as time goes
by.
And yes, we hope to make this an annual event. Real-world DConf
in May, online DConf in November.
Please let me know if anything about the submission process is
unclear and I'll update the page. I do not want to post details
about the process of prepping the videos; I'm reserving that for
those who are actually accepted. And I'm holding off on the
details of exactly how we'll be doing the livestreaming, as that
may change. We'll make some test runs to ensure that everything
we want to do actually works and I'll update the page as we get
closer to the dates.
