O'Reilly has announced their Open Source Conference Call for Participation. OSCON started as The Perl Conference in 1997 and hosts the 12th annual Perl Conference this year. As a member of the Perl track review committee, I invite you to submit proposals for talks about the great things you've been doing with Perl. Make our job hard!

This will be the breakout year for Perl 6 (maybe this is the Christmas???), and we will feature it at OSCON. We don't assume that we already know everyone who's got a Perl 6 talk for us; if you've got something interesting to tell people about Perl 6, submit a proposal.

We are equally interested in Perl 5 presentations. Some examples of recent developments that would make good talks are Perl 5.10 features, Strawberry Perl, Moose. We continue to hear stories about how Perl has saved jobs and money, and made work fun. Let's see your presentations on enterprise-scale Perl applications and infrastructure, and the coolest modules, hacks, and techniques for using Perl for Stuff That Matters.

There's something special about the Perl community, and you can see it at OSCON thanks in no small part to the excellent presenters who turn out for it each year... so join them in 2008! See http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/cfp for essential advice on submitting your proposal. The deadline is February 4, so start working on those proposals now!