Interesting. I just received that via the mailinglist:

The Perl and Raku Conference 2023

The Perl Foundation is delighted to announce that the annual North American Perl and Raku Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada on July 11 to 13, 2023. The venue will be the DoubleTree (a Hilton Hotels property), located at 108 Chestnut St in downtown Toronto. That's directly North from Toronto's city hall, close to public transit and one of the country's biggest malls, the Toronto Eaton Centre.

Toronto is Canada's largest city, and the city and surrounding area offers many attractions for a vacation before or after your conference attendance. For our American visitors: you're in luck, three of your dollars are about the same as four of ours.

Call For Papers is now open! You can submit your talk Ideas at https://tprc.to/papers . Talk submission deadline is March 31 Midnight UTC. Talks must be given live and in-person. If you are looking for any talk ideas, try out the conference wiki.

Early bird pricing is available. Purchase your ticket now through April 15th for the low price of $275 USD. You can purchase your tickets now at https://tprc2023.sched.com/tickets.

Visit our website at https://tprc.to/. Information on special hotel rates can be found at https://tprc.to/location/. We've managed to arrange for a really great room rate for the conference days, and there are a few rooms for before and after the conference, in case you'd like to stay longer for a little vacation.

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That's right at the heart of Toronto. Everything is in easy reach. No car needed. I'm no longer in the Greater Toronto Area, but I was for 20 years until recently. Feel free to ask me anything.

> Feel free to ask me anything.

Anything? Do you know the organizers?

They are late with their call for paper and it took me some time to find out (on a site which I wasn't able to find yesterday) that speaker are exempt from the fee.

--> All selected speakers (except lightning talks) will receive a free ticket to the event.

This should better be made clear in the main-site and the booking site to attract more talk proposals.

Cheers Rolf
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Blue Jays play the Diamondbacks July 14th, 15th, and 16th. The 15th is also 'Chappy Couture Shirt Giveaway Day' according to their play schedule. Not sure how many Perl/Raku hackers are also baseball fans but good seats are still cheap this far out. Ballpack is less than 10 minutes away by car or 20-30 minutes by foot or transit from the hotel hosting the conference. Might be worth making it a long weekend in Toronto.

As a reminder

CFP closes at March 31, 2023 23:59 UTC

Cheers Rolf
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Got an email saying:
... the Call For Papers has been re-opened briefly -- get those papers in by Friday, April 7 at 23:59UTC (8 pm Eastern). https://tprc.to/papers

Cheers Rolf
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