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Re: YAPC::EU 2010... when exactly?
by larsen (Parson) on Jan 18, 2010 at 16:00 UTC
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Hi, and thanks for asking :)
We're aware more than some people are holding their breath
waiting for an official announcement about YAPC::Europe's dates,
but we still can't.
Let me explain better:
- It's true our target dates are August, 4th-6th. This is due
to various reasons: convenient temporal distance from other
important OS conferences like OSCON, informal investigations with
some guest speakers, and so on
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In order to hit these target dates – and after some issues with
the first (and second!) venue we put our eyes on – we're working on
obtaining a final commit from another venue. Without
going through all the details, we can say we're close to
obtain it, and finally publishing the official dates
thanks again
we hope to see you at the conference,
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And when you update or confirm the dates of the conference, can you also let the world know what the theme of the conference will be?
CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James
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Sure, I can let the world know now. Quoting our proposal:
The conference theme is the Renaissance of Perl. This topic pays
homage to Italy's role as the cradle of the Renaissance, and
acknowledges how Perl is far from a dead legacy language, but is
constantly being reborn with, for example, the parallel initiatives of
Perl 6, and the Modern Perl 5 movement.
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Re: YAPC::EU 2010... when exactly?
by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 18, 2010 at 14:37 UTC
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A few weeks ago, I spoke the organizers, and they said that since many people already made commitments and travel arrangements for the first week of August, they weren't going to change the tentative dates. | [reply] |
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Re: YAPC::EU 2010... when exactly?
by BioLion (Curate) on Jan 18, 2010 at 14:51 UTC
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I have never been to a YAPC (EU or otherwise) - what usually goes on at them?
YAPC Europe gives 'themes' but what actually do people talk about? Is it all talks? What is the pitch of the talks? i.e. are they specific "The use and buse of MooseX" etc...) or general "Perl as scientific glue" ( Lincoln Stein ). How much 'networking' and job-mongering goes on?
Sorry for all the questions, and if there are better links than the ones I got from google, then point me towards them!
Just a something something...
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How much 'networking' and job-mongering goes on?
That's really up to you. If you do not get involved then conferences can be lonely places. If you are not naturally gregarious then try to arrange to meet up with people. Sessions will allow you to speak up but can be intimidating. The BOF (Birds Of a Feather) meetings are generally good for making contacts and fairly informal.
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How much 'networking' and job-mongering goes on?
I would say there's a lot of 'networking' going on - in fact, for me it's an important aspect of the conferences (not just YAPC, or Perl conferences, there are other non-Perl conferences I visit), if not the most important aspect. For me, "networking" has resulted in (academic) papers, two jobs (including my current one), new friends, the discovery (over and over again) that people in real life are far more interesting and multi-facetted than they are as letters on a screen.
As for job-mongering, both YAPC::EU and YAPC::NA have had stands with recruiters/HR people for the past couple of years (typically for sponsors). Details vary a bit from conference to conference; NA seems to have more stands, but more limited (and sceduled) time, as in EU there are less stands, but they're there during the entire conference. And there are always people saying "we're hiring".
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It's like a national conference ... just bigger.
Since it's EU its also much about coordination of colonizing the world, especially spreading languages, religious believes and economic systems.
Hot topics ATM are a new opium war with China, deporting sending more protestant fundamentalist to Northern America and trading slaves in Africa...
UPDATE: ;-)
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> ... sending more protestant fundamentalist to Northern America
Reality beats satire...
German homeschoolers granted political asylum
...well... 7 more voters for Palin... 8-|
BTW:
The date of YAPC::EU has been confirmed now! 8)
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