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gnat writes "The Call For Papers for the 2007 O'Reilly Open Source Convention (aka year 11 of The Perl Conference) is now open. Submit a proposal before the rush. The conference is in Portland again, July 23-27.

particle writes "On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.8, "Eponymous." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.

So there's this worm, and surely you've seen it around, but if you are reading this web site, chances are greater for you than for others that you've seen it, because there seem to be a lot of Perl developers in the pre-compiled list of addresses.

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"...I think you're the path toward sanity."

-- Larry Wall, in 'Patterns'

The Perl 6 Design team met via phone on 10 January 2007. Larry, Damian, Allison, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended. These are the notes.

pepl writes "We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the YAPC Europe 2007 in Vienna, Austria, 29th to 31st August 2007. The theme for this year's conference is "Social Perl", which we hope will inspire submissions for this and related topics. If Perl has helped you or your company to get people together, or if you can report how Perl is "social" to other programming languages, or how Perl may profit from inspirations from other languages, we'd like to hear about it. Although this is our main topic for the conference, it will not be the only one, and as such we will also be accepting talks on just about any theme.

Types of talks include 20 or 40 minutes talks, 60-90 minute tutorials, or 3 hour Hack-a-thons, BOFs or Workshops. Please submit talk proposals via the conference web site until Sunday, 27th May 2007. A Call for Participation will follow in a few weeks."

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Remember, the next Parrot bug day is 13 January, 2007. Join the rest of the team at #parrot (irc.perl.org) to work on closing as many bugs as possible before the next Parrot release.

particle writes "Fellow birders~

On Saturday, 13 January, 2007, please join us on IRC in #parrot (irc.perl.org) to work on closing out as many RT (https://rt.perl.org/rt3/) tickets as possible in the parrot queue. This will help us get ready for the next release of parrot 0.4.8, scheduled for Tuesday 16 January 2007. You'll find C, parrot assembly, perl, documentation, and plenty of tasks to go around. Core developers will be available all day (starting at around 10am GMT) to answer questions.

No experience with parrot necessary. See http://rakudo.org/parrot/index.cgi?bug_day_2007_01_13 for more information.

~particle"

We've cut the price for online subscriptions to The Perl Review to $7, and made the PDF-only subscription available to everyone, including subscribers in the US. People who subscribed to the web-only edition in the last couple of months will have their subscriptions extended by a year. Normal print subscription prices will stay the same as long as the Postal Service keeps their prices the same.

hcchien writes: Taiwan will host the Open Source Developer's Conference on 7-8 April 2007. We are taking proposals for talks (in Chinese or English) until the end of January. More details will be available from the conference website when we have it ready. If you have any questions, please mail to hcchien@hcchien.org.

miyagawa writes "Shibuya Perl Mongers are pleased to announce that YAPC::Asia 2007 is now scheduled on April 4-5, 2007 in Tokyo. Registration will launch sometime in February but start looking for your flights and booking hotels during the conference now.

We are also announcing the call for presentations for the conference today. We are looking for 20 and 45 minutes presentations. Please submit your proposal via our web form. Make sure you include a title for your presentation, an abstract, a language of the talk (English or Japanese), and the amount of time that you think you will need for the presentation. Feel free to submit multiple proposals if you want to increase your chance to speak.

The deadline for submissions is February 16th, 2007. We launched a blog so you can keep yourself updated by subscribing its RSS feed. We're looking forward to seeing you in Tokyo again!"

jonasbn writes "Copenhagen Perl Mongers are organizing a technical meeting on Tuesdag 30th. January 2007, at 18:00 about SVK decentralized SCM written in Perl by Chia-liang Kao, whom have paid us a visit earlier. Location: Kvarterhuset in Jemtelandsgade 3, room 210, DK-2300 København S, Denmark. We start in Kvarterhuset with a presentation of SVK by Lars Thegler (tagg). After this we go to Cafe Bizzaro (nearby) and socialize... Please tell us if you plan to attend, since the venue has a natural limitation. Please do so by joining/mailing our mailing list: copenhagen-subscribe@perl.org

The Perl 6 Design team met via phone on 03 January 2007. Larry, Allison, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended. These are the notes.

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"Grrr, otta profefreed my onw righting occashionaly."

-- Larry Wall's commit message for r13508--one typo correction of many

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"Short answer: absolutely.

"Long answer: emphatically not."

-- Larry Wall, in 'RAII in Perl6/Parrot'

The latest version of Win32::API, marked v0.46, should now correctly install even from the CPAN shell. Finally!

The Perl 6 Design team met via phone on 20 December 2006. Allison, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended. These are the notes.

Development has started up again. Your help is requested.

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"With the little sense of smell I have left, this smells like INTERCAL's 'COME FROM' statement to me..."

-- Larry Wall, who has a cold, in 'supertyping'

"This comment in mg.c scares me: /* Not sure why the av can get freed ahead of its sv, but somehow it does */" -- Marc Lehmann, uncovering ancient evil.