The Chicago Perl Mongers are excited to officially open the call for participation for YAPC::NA 2008. To submit your proposal, visit the YAPC site, create an account, and let us know what you'd like to talk about. Submissions will be accepted through March 15th 2008, so get yours in soon.
We are currently accepting proposals for conference talks with durations of 20, 45, 70, and 95 minutes. These talks can be directed at any level of Perl programmer, from the noobies to seasoned Perl veterans. If you want to show off an amazing hack or new framework that youve been involved with, this could be your chance. Possibly you just want to contribute to the community by giving an introductory talk on regular expressions or subroutines; we intend on having something for everyone this year.
If 20 minutes is a too intimidating for you right now or if you just dont have enough material to fill up that much time, dont fret, we'll be opening the call for lighting talks soon. These 5-minute mini-presentations are a great way to get a quick point across and to get some experience in presenting in front of a crowd. Keep watching this news source for more information about the lighting talks.
This year we are also planning on introducing more hands-on workshop-style tracks to the conference. These sessions will typically be a little longer than a normal presentation and will be much more informal. During the workshops, conference attendees will be able to interact with presenters to actually do things like compile Parrot or create a hello world program in Perl 6. If you are involved in a project and would like to host a workshop, please contact Josh McAdams directly at joshua dot mcadams at gmail dot com.
Birmingham.pm World Tour 2008 - Leicester LUG - 13th February 2008
Tonight is the second date of the Birmingham Perl Mongers 2008 World Tour. We'll be visiting Leicester LUG, where I'll be presenting a talk entitled "Understanding Malware". The talk happily coincides with MessageLabs' "Know Your Enemy" campaign, which means I have a few freebies to give away too.
The event takes place at Leciester University, and the Leicester LUG guys have created a meetings page with links to the university pages with maps and directions, as well as the necessary info to find room 527 in the Ken Edwards Building, where the talk will take place. I am due to start sometime between 7.30.pm and 8pm and the talk will be for about an hour, with a Q&A session afterwards. They then head to the pub for a debrief.
Remaining Tour Dates
Dates so far confirmed:
Wed 13 Feb - Leicester LUG
Tue 19 Feb - Coventry LUG
Wed 27 Feb - Birmingham.pm
Wed 26 Mar - Birmingham.pm
Tue 8 Apr - Leicester LUG
Wed 23 Apr - Birmingham.pm
Wed 28 May - Birmingham.pm
More dates to be added, with Birmingham LUG, Cambridge.pm, Wolverhampton LUG, MiltonKeynes.pm (tech visit), Edinburgh.pm and London.pm to be scheduled. Please feel free to get in touch if you would like us to visit your group, and whether you would like us to present a few talks, or just share a drink.
Check the Birmingham Perl Mongers website for more details.
Background
In early 2006 Birmingham Perl Mongers took to the road to promote the 2006 YAPC::Europe Perl Conference, which we hosted at the end of August 2006. We took it upon ourselves to visit several Perl Monger groups around the UK, and proved extremely popular, with several groups asked to come back again, and others asking us to visit them too. In 2007 we visited both Perl Monger and Linux user groups, this time presenting at each groups technical meeting. For 2008 we hope to include several groups we never previous got to as well visiting some old friends.
YAPC::Asia 2008 Tokyo を 2008 年 5月 に開催します。
日時: 2008/05/15-16 (Thu-Fri) 9:00-18:00 (予定)
会場: 東京工業大学大岡山キャンパス
費用: 4000円 (カンファレンスノベルティグッズ付き)
チケット: 3月上旬よりオンライン販売
主催: YAPC::Asia 2008 実行委員会 / Shibuya Perl Mongers
2006, 2007年につづき、海外からのゲストスピーカーも多数予定しています。
また、スピーカーの募集とカンファレンスへの事前登録も本日より開始しています。20分、40分のプレゼンテーションの登録を受け付けます。プレゼンの応募を行う方は、タイトル・アブストラクトをつけて、フォームからサブミットをお願いします。フォームは共用のため英語となっていますが、タイトル、アブストラクトなどは日本語で記述していただいて OK です。複数のトークを登録されてもかまいません。
プレゼン登録の〆切は、2008/02/25 を予定しています。ライトニングトークはカンファレンスが近づいた4月下旬ごろから募集する予定です。