Lang.NET + DSL DevCon = Joy

This year, we’re thinking very hard about putting the Lang.NET conference and the DSL DevCon at the same venue (the research center on the Microsoft Redmond campus) in the same week. The idea is that people interested in general-purpose language design and development can come to Lang.NET and the people interested in domain-specific languages can come to the DSL DevCon and for folks interested in both, the DSL DevCon will start right after Lang.NET, so folks can stay a little longer and come to both. Also, the conference chairs on both conferences will make sure to keep the content unique across the two conferences.

 

We think that’s a good way to make sure the conferences complement each other and helps keep people’s schedules sane and their travel costs lower. However, I have two questions for you:

 

1.      Traditionally, Lang.NET is 3 days and a DevCon is 2 days. Because of the overlap of the content (languages), we were wondering if folks thought it would be a good idea to do 2.5 days of Lang.NET and 1.5 days of DSL DevCon this year instead, doing both conferences in 4 days instead of 5. What do you think?

2.      If we linked these two events like this, will you attend just Lang.NET, just DSL DevCon or both?

 

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Its all languages, so I am game...depending on dates of course...

I would purely be interested in the DSL Dev Con, although I'm not sure I could justify the costs to my boss for a conference lasting only 1.5 days in Redmond. Although, that all depends on how much it would be ? :-)

Would you consider plans to hold something similar in the UK?

I would prefer a longer event, it is easier to justify from the UK.
I also would welcome a UK event

+1 on 4-days: long enough to have good scope, short enough so that it still feels intense.

I am very interested in both conferences. If you can do it during the week following the MVP summit, that would be great. Please keep us posted.