I just read the comments in blogs.perl.org and unfortunately is movable type's interface not letting me comment too.

This one day conference was a great success

... bad sadly risking to stay a one-day-wonder.

After a hiatus since the pandemic it immediately drew 120 attendants and was considerably bigger than the American YAPC.

Mind you:

So Lee, the guy who is regularly traveling thru Europe to do the video recordings of Perl events decided to step in this year with the help of Julien doing "the ground work"

Now it's worth noting that for many years already he's based in Switzerland and never even lived in London.

Julien, who I first met at the GPW in Hanover, where he was one of the organizers, is not even British.

Organizing such an event, at a distance with almost nothing to built on is a huge feat.

Mind you, the Swiss Perl Society had to provide their bank account for the sponsors.

Lee already announced that he won't do it again next year and was asking for locals to help.

Obviously there are more of them willing to attend than to help.

So far nothing surprising.

What's really getting me emotional ...

...is that some toxic guy I've never heard of with a defunct webpage, called the recordings "a waste of storage space" in the comment section.

Without getting a reply.

And Lee, who had even more work after the workshop not only editing and uploading the recordings, but also trying to safe the sound quality took the bait and announced he'll stop doing recordings for our workshops.

Great!

Sadly that's the power balance of social media, asymmetric warfare to kill all ambitions.

Anyway Lee & Julien, thanks a lot making this happen!!! ❤️

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^2: Announcing The London Perl & Raku Workshop 2024 (LPW) (Trolling vs Appreciation) by LanX
in thread Announcing The London Perl & Raku Workshop 2024 (LPW) by leej

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