OpenFsharp and F# Europe will have to wait until covid well clear in US/Europe and these things take time to organise. Maybe late 2022 or hopefully 2023.
FP has many perfect fits and definitely areas where it is inappropriate! But see if you can find notes from @thinkb4coding #NoMemAlloc pres - he did F# video decoding at @openfsharp last September
At @NDC_Conferences, the focus has always been .NET, but with more general topics added. Also, it has been a mixture of "Open .NET" and "Microsoft .NET".
I don't know the event or its content, but in terms of branding this is the opposite of what I was referring to.
.NET, C# and F#, must have an open, neutral, independent core existence as ideas, designs and communities.
Yes, .NET Day events are a good start. I'd love to see these coalesce to an "open dotnet" or "opencsharp/openfsharp" pairing (overlapping events?) for a Europe or USA - wide event.
Also, absolutely no hint of a "priesthood" (MVPs) having any privileged status. Conference rule: anyone mentioning a Microsoft or an MVP affiliation in a way suggesting it makes them special - rather than with humility - gets drummed out ceremoniously :-)
I’ve been thinking of an European alternate DotNet conf for many years that should specifically focus on tech but as independent org our time and capacity is limited 😭(and also to assume an additional risk for org a new thing from scratch is not easy )
The story was exactly that, we very quickly switch to what we still think matters at our level : trying to figure out what we’re doing as an industry, remember the past to understand the future, talk about sociology and philosophy, talk on innovation & practices etc...
Yes, exactly this sort of thing! And a whole stream of independently minded .NET contributors like yourself, @lenadroid, @lu_a_jalla and many more have come from Minsk, partly due to this I think.
Yes. @dotnetfringe succeeded (even if the organisers moved on to other things) and in a sense proves there's a gap here in the conference/community market.