From the linked announcement:

We don't want to go back to the University of Westminster

I attended 2 or 3 LPWs previously at that venue and it seemed to be pretty good to me. If the reason for not returning there is logistical, could this not be overcome?

OTOH, if it is non-logistical (eg. financial, political, bad blood, whatever) then so be it.

It's good to see LPW returning anyway, wherever it ends up.

We believe there are much better venues available - The University of Westminster is overpriced in comparison, with fewer facilities and outdated features.

2019's venue was excellent and half the price, it's a shame we can't use it again.

We have a list of several possible venues that's we're looking into, of course we are open to suggestions so let us know.

The cheapest way to organize a non profit event is to have the patronage of a university or faculty or professor. They could at least cut the prize.

For instance someone in London could try to ask the UCL which is listing bioperl in it's open source repo.

(They used Perl for research and should be interested to keep it alive.)

But we discussed this before and you sit in Switzerland and I'm in Germany.

So someone in London trying to ask those academics would be great.

(Wink! 😉)

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

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London Perl & Raku Workshop 2024: Recordings & Thoughts

Many thanks to Lee and Julien for making that happen!!! :)

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:

• The original organizer were not available anymore,
• LPW has no legal framework or bank account,
• there was no affordable venue available
• the whole event ist free for all participants
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}

I just posted a comment over there with a link to your comment here. However, I think it's very probable that MT accepted mine only accidentally ;-)

I hardly ever frequent Youtube but even so still hear frequently how troll-laden the comments are (for anything posted there). If one cannot ignore the comments it might be better to host the videos elsewhere and just disallow commenting at all.

But video is expensive so someone would have to foot the bill. Perhaps this is something TPF could do?

If push comes to shove, I would rather LPW continue without video recordings than the whole event just stop.

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I'll be there...

My first Perl Workshop!