Just got home. I had a great time! I want to thank everyone involved again for the opportunity to attend and speak at dconf! :) Meeting everyone in the meat certainly is invaluable, and I like how I can now read the forum with faces, voices and accents.
Looking forward to the next one! :P On 4 May 2013 18:11, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: > I just arrived home after 4 days of little sleep and dawn to late night > talking with fellow D-heads. And the conference was ... > > > !!AWESOME!! > > > .. It exceeded my highest hopes. Basically, I had a grand time, and I hope > you guys did, too. The excitement at the conference was palpable. Anyone > needing help was deluged with offers, many hatchets got buried (amazing how > meeting the real person behind an online persona does that!), many new > friends made and collaborations formed, rvalue references resolved, and > lots was learned from the variety and depth of the presentations. > > I want to shout out to Facebook for hosting and providing smooth and > well-oiled conference logistics (and great food & gallons of coffee!), > Sociomantic's and Remedy's and Andrew Edwards' generous sponsorship along > with the many other kickstarters, without whom this conference would not > have been possible. > > And, of course, thanks to our speakers who packed 3 days wall to wall with > high quality talks. Other conferences I've attended tended to fade away the > last day, but this one ran at full power right to the end. Thanks to our > attendees for making it worthwhile for the speakers to come. Many of the > speakers were first timers, and were treated to a most friendly and eager > audience. > > Yes, the talks were recorded and will be made available online. We hope to > get some photos up soon, too. > > We'll definitely be doing one next year, so start roughing out your > presentations now! >
