As far as topics are concerned, I'd really like to see a vim plugin created from start to finish. The tutorials and docs that exist leave a lot to be desired, and this seems like a nice venue to demonstrate (and explain!) the capabilities of the vim plugin system.
Separate to Vim, this concept should become more popular. Real world conferences have their place, for sure, but some topics are avoided as they probably wouldn't break even, and seeing more things like this would be great.
Anyone know some Vim luminaries who'd be good "keynote" speakers/demo-ers? I'd vote for Drew Neil - <a href="http://vimcasts.org/about" rel="nofollow">http://vimcasts.org/about</a>
I am so excited about this! Watching other people use vim has been the most valuable part of my vim education. I think this is going to be a great venue for it.<p>Edit: I'm also clueless when it comes to vimscript. It would be nice to see some stuff on that.
This event looks promising. Interacting with other Vim users really helped me get over the initial Vim learning curve. For any devs that use OSX and want to test the Vim waters, checkout Vico (<a href="http://www.vicoapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.vicoapp.com</a>). It is a Textmate-esque editor with Vim bindings.
Signed up. Id like to use vim since i like the concept but it seems so damn hard to get into. The post yesterday "learn vim progressively" was interesting though.<p>Not sure i know what it is though. I really like VS debugger and programming in C#, C++ (both with VS). So, what exactly will i give up if i switch to vim?
I know this is off topic but would you mind sharing how you created a special link that can be passed to earn credit?<p>Are there plugins/gems for something like this or was this made from scratch?
I've never understood people's obsession with vim. I used it for a few months, then timed myself doing the same tasks with vim and gedit. Gedit was faster by a significant margin.