{"id":10,"date":"2016-06-03T19:07:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T19:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2021-10-08T10:59:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T10:59:38","slug":"recent-d-foundation-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/03\/recent-d-foundation-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent D Foundation Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the official D Blog!<\/p>\n<p>My name is Michael Parker. With the launching of The D\u00a0Blog, I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to land the role of Blog Author, which means I&#8217;ll be making most of the posts around here. This blog will become your source for DLang news, inside looks at projects in the D community, and updates on happenings behind the scenes of language development and at the D Foundation. Consider\u00a0it a complement to Adam Ruppe&#8217;s excellent weekly summary of D goings on, <a href=\"http:\/\/arsdnet.net\/this-week-in-d\/\">This Week in D<\/a>. For this inaugural post, I&#8217;ve got three\u00a0news items to pass along about some of the ways the D Foundation is working to promote D.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, Andrei Alexandrescu has been doing a lot of talking in places other than\u00a0conference stages. For one, he&#8217;s been having discussions with the <a href=\"http:\/\/tech-lounge.ro\/\">Tech Lounge Foundation<\/a> in Romania, an organization which, among other endeavors, works to help CS and engineering students and aspiring professionals move beyond their education. Specifically, the D Foundation is interviewing recent graduates and current graduate-level students to explore ideas for high-impact academic and industrial D projects. Not only could this result in a killer project or two for D, it could bring new faces into the community.<\/p>\n<p>A second line of communication is active between Andrei and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upb.ro\/en\/\">University \u201cPolitehnica\u201d of Bucharest<\/a>, where he has had talks with the university&#8217;s Vice President Corneliu Burileanu and Director of the Telecommunications Department Eduard-Cristian Popovici. The focus of these discussions has been on finding opportunities for the university and the D Foundation to collaborate. Potential areas of cooperation in this realm include D-centric courses and joint projects developed with D.<\/p>\n<p>Moving out of Romania and up into Scandanavia, Andrei was scheduled to <a href=\"http:\/\/ndcoslo.com\/workshop\/the-d-language-or-the-art-of-going-meta\/\">host a D workshop<\/a> on June 6 at NDC Oslo. That has now been canceled because of a scheduling conflict. Instead, he will be presenting a day-long consulting session at Cisco Norway. He will also be presenting a talk on D during lunch. All proceeds from the event will go straight to the D Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any feedback on the blog theme, I would love to see\u00a0it over <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.dlang.org\/\">in the forums<\/a>. Be sure to keep an eye on this space, or <a href=\"http:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/index.php\/feed\/\">subscribe to the feed<\/a>, so you can stay up to date. And if you maintain a D project large or small, be on the lookout for an email from me. I&#8217;m getting ready to pick a target for the D Blog&#8217;s first project highlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the official D Blog! My name is Michael Parker. With the launching of The D\u00a0Blog, I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to land the role of Blog Author, which means I&#8217;ll be making most of the posts around here. This blog will become your source for DLang news, inside looks at projects in the D [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}