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Jon Orwant is the original editor and publisher of The Perl Journal. A long-time Perl user, Jon has had a significant impact on the Perl community. Among other things, he ushered in the Perl 6 announcement with the now-famous 'coffee mug heard round the world' at The Perl Conference in 2000.

brian d foy founded the Perl Mongers groups at the second Perl conference in 1997, and started the White Camel awards in 1999. He is the publisher of The Perl Review, which just celebrated its first issue in print. He recently returned from a year in the desert maintaining Perl modules without electricity or Internet access.

If you'll be at OSCON and would like to help out, please send a message to Bill Odom (wnodom at tmtowtdi dot com) for more details. Thanks! "

• Test Driven Development -- David Kosykh
• Extending XML::XPath -- Michel Rodriguez
• Magick Tile Puzzles -- Grant McLean

You can get details on what YAPCs entail at http://www.yapc.org/venue-reqs.txt. When making your proposal, in addition to venue information and dates, do please make sure to include details on airport locations, local public transit (as well as transit to the venue from the airport!), local cultural attractions, and accommodation information. (See the docs for more details) The more information you provide, within reason, the better.

This year we are also making available the different categories, and weight for those categories, for prospective proposers. Please visit http://yapc.org/yapc-crit.txt for more information on this.

Send the proposals to yapc-venues AT yetanother DOT org. Proposals are due by Friday, August 31 2004, with a decision due on September 15 2004. (If the summertime vacation blahs catch everyone out we may extend the deadline. Don't count on that) This gives about 7 weeks, which is short but manageable, and should still fit within most college and university scheduling requirements.