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The silence has been broken! We have published the irst newsletter leading up to YAPC::EU 2008, throwing some light on the things that are going on behind the scenes.

Read about the schedule layout, Perl training, job fair and sponsorships in our newsletter.

And remember, the talk submission deadline is drawing nearer! Submit your talks by May 25.

There is also a news feed.

Thank you—jonasbn, on behalf of the Copenhagen Perl Mongers

Just a quick reminder, the YAPC::NA 2009 Call for Venue will be closing in less than a month. If you plan on trying to host YAPC::NA 2009 and you haven't started on your bid, you'd better get to it! The deadline for submissions this year is June 1st (as we would like to announce the 2009 venue at this year's YAPC::NA). You can get all of the details and see the Call for Venue posting on The Perl Foundation's blog.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

worm writes "Brasil-PM and SPB are organizing the Yet Another Perl Conference South America (YAPC::SA::2008), in April 17 thru April 19, 2008. The meeting will take place during the 9th International Free Software Forum (FISL 9.0) @ Porto Alegre (RS) — Brazil, which is coordinated by Free Software Association, and will take place at PUC-RS (Catholic University) Exposition Center.

Randal Schwartz will be a keynote speaker.

Some live video streamming will be availiable at http://tv.softwarelivre.org/ (pt_BR).

Centro de Exposições PUC-RS
Av. Ipiranga, 6681
Bairro Partenon
Porto Alegre — RS
Brazil

YAPC::SA::2008 webpage http://yapcsa.perl.org.br/2008/ (pt_BR)
FISL 9.0 webpage http://fisl.org.br/ (pt_BR, es, en)"

With exactly two months remaining until YAPC::NA 2008, we are officially opening the payment system for registration to the conference. From now through the end of April, an early-bird price of $85 USD is available for attendees. After that, the registration cost goes up to $100 USD, so if you are looking to save some money on registration, book now! Of course, we are also making the full-price registration available for those who are feeling generous.

Some things to note:

If you are a speaker, DO NOT pay for the conference unless you really really want to. We will be passing out a coupon code sometime in the next few weeks so that you can properly register.

Also, if you are wanting to book on-campus accommodations you'll have to wait a week or so to reserve those; however, you can register and pay for the conference now to take advantage of early bird pricing. The housing registration system will be available very soon. The maintainers of ACT (the system we use to manage the conference) are working hard to create a more robust purchasing component of ACT that will make booking housing easier this year. A lot of this work will be done at next week's ACT hack-a-thon. Please join all of the ACT Hackers in making ACT an even better system for managing YAPC's around the world.

And finally, be sure to get the word out. We want to make this one of the best YAPC::NA's to date and to do that we need attendees! Tell your friends. Tell your boss. Tell your local PM group or LUG. YAPC::NA 2008 is almost here!

While we are all looking forward to YAPC::Europe 2008 in Copenhagen, it's time for the YAPC::Europe Venue Committee to consider suitable hosts for the 2009 conference. Any dedicated group interested in hosting YAPC::Europe::2009 should send a brief statement of intent to venue@yapceurope.org as soon as possible. For this first statement of intent a few lines like "City.pm is interested in hosting YAPC::Europe 2009" will be enough.

A full and complete application should then be sent to the same address prior to the deadline for applications, which is June 30, 2008. The YAPC::Europe Venue Committee will inform applicants by July 31, 2008 if their proposal was chosen. The public announcement of the location for the 2009 conference will be announced during the 2008 conference in Copenhagen.

For more information about the requirements for hosting a conference, you may want to refer to the YAPC organiser's documentation (administered by TPF) on Google code, or look at the examples of previous European conferences.

Please direct any questions to venue@yapceurope.org, and a member of the committee will endeavour to respond as soon as possible.

Looking forward to your submissions,
  Thomas Klausner
  on behalf of the YAPC::Europe Venue Committee

Welcome, once again, to the Yet Another Perl Conference, North America Call For Venue! The 2009 YAPC::NA marks the 10th anniversary for YAPC. Wow, 10 years of YAPC! This year we've decided to try something a little different. After some discussion and feedback, we've decided to take an approach similar to YAPC::EU. We're putting out the request for bids now, with a June 1 deadline. This gives the Conferences Committee time to review the bids and make a decision to be announced at this year's YAPC::NA in Chicago.

miyagawa writes "YAPC::Asia committee is pleased to announce that YAPC::Asia 2008 is now scheduled on May 15-16, 2008 in Tokyo.

We are also announcing the call for presentations and early registration for the conference today. We are looking for 20 and 40 minutes presentations. The deadline for submissions is February 25th, 2008.

The conference website uses Act so you can sign in using your existent account if you've been to one of past YAPCs or Perl Workshops in North America or Europe. Special Thanks to Éric Cholet for helping us out setting up the site. We're working on Japanese translation of the site and hopefully will contribute back soon!"

hcchien writes "After two weeks, the call for papers of Open Source Decelopers' Conference Taiwan, 2008 will be end.
The OSDC.tw 2008 will be on 12th-13th, April. The subject is "Innovation and Implementation" in this year.
Please submit your papers with subject, extract and user profile. And the OSDC.tw will call for participation after we finalize the schedule. Just a reminder, please send your papers to hcchien@osdc.tw before 15th, February."

jmcada writes "The Chicago Perl Mongers are excited to officially announce the location, dates, and website for YAPC::NA 2008. The conference will be held June 16th-18th 2008 at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL. We have set up an ACT-based website at http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2008/. Thanks to Éric Cholet for getting that together.

We are looking forward to another excellent YAPC::NA and urge you to mark your calendars now for one of North America's premiere perl events."

jonasbn writes "The dates for the annual YAPC::Europe conference to be held in Copenhagen in 2008 have been settled. The hosts, Copenhagen Perl Mongers, are happy to inform you that the event will take place across 3 days, from Wednesday the 13th to Friday the 15th of August 2008, at the magnificent venue of Copenhagen Business School.

The venue is a modern school in the heart of Copenhagen, which will provide a great frame for Yet Another Perl Conference in Europe with the theme of 'Beautiful Perl' in wonderful Copenhagen.

Informational wiki is available and future announcements will be published on the conference website, http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ and in other relevant fora.

Thank you for you attention — hoping to see you in Copenhagen in 2008 for YAPC::Europe,

Copenhagen Perl Mongers"

hcchien writes "Most open source developers often get lots of new ideas. And they implement them all the time. The open source developers share their code to others, and get more feedback from the end users and other developers.

Internet is a good way to share their ideas and code. If you want to get more feedback directly or share more experiences to others. And you want to get more developers to hack together. It's a good time to submit your paper and proposal to OSDC.tw 2008.

The subject of OSDC.tw 2008 would be the "Innovation and Implementation". You can share with others your ideas and implementation. The deadline of the CFP is 2008/2/15, and the conference schedule will be releaded after the end of call for paper. The date of OSDC.tw 2008 would be the mid of April 2008. We will announce the date after the venue is confirmed.

For submitting the papers, you should include subject, extract. And tell us how long is your talk. It could be a tutorial (180 mins) or session (60 mins), you can either submit a lightening talk.

Please attach the speaker introduction when you submit the paper. And send it to hcchien@osdc.tw"

barbie writes "The YAPC::Europe Foundation is pleased to announce that Copenhagen, Denmark has been chosen as the site for YAPC::Europe 2008, the ninth European YAPC.

Copenhagen faced stiff competition from Braga, Portugal, which hosted a memorable YAPC::Europe in 2005. This year also marked the first submission from a group unaffiliated with Perlmongers: the Informatics department of Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom. We hope that both these groups will give us the opportunity to consider their proposals again in the future.

We are confident that Copenhagen.pm's experienced team — which was responsible for several Nordic Perl Workshops — will put together a wonderful conference. "

autarch writes "Frozen Perl 2008 will be a one-day workshop in sunny Minneapolis on Saturday, February 16, 2008. We've officially opened up our Call for Speakers, and we're looking forward to your submissions. Our workshop theme is "Perl in Practice", so practical submissions are encouraged."

Random Logic writes "YAPC::Europe 2007 attendees dinner is getting full!

While that's great (really!), that also means you have to be fast to have your
seat committed for you! We are limited to 320 seats for the dinner so we have
to apply our "first come first serve" principle for the dinner. Seats will be
committed in order of incoming payments, so be sure the grab your seat and buy
your ticket in case you haven't done so! For those who have paid already (or
have sponsor tickets), consider your seat reserved for you.

rGeoffrey writes "Going to OSCON in Portland or YAPC::Europe in Vienna this conference season? Do you want one third of your "15 minutes of fame"? Then give a Lightning Talk on some topic that speaks to you. Submissions now being accepted for Portland and Vienna."

pepl writes "The organisers for the YAPC::Europe 2007 are pleased to announce the launch of the preliminary conference schedule.

Don't forget to register if you haven't done so yet and visit the conference homepage for regular updates!

Speakers please don't forget that papers/slides for the conference proceedings are due by next Sunday, 22nd July 2007!

Cheers,
Michael Kröll
On behalf of the YAPC::Europe 2007 organisers"

YAPC Europe Venue Committee writes "As YAPC::Europe::2007 in Vienna is drawing closer, the YAPC::Europe Venue Committee are looking forward to reviewing all the proposals from those wishing to host the 2008 conference. If you haven't already done so, please send a brief statement of intent to venue@yapceurope.org. The deadline for applications is June 30, 2007, after which the committee will begin the review process.

For more information about the requirements for hosting a conference, you may want to refer to the YAPC organisers documentation (administered by TPF) or look at the examples of previous European conferences.

Please direct any questions to venue@yapceurope.org, and a member of the committee will endeavour to respond as soon as possible. The public announcement of the location for the 2008 conference will be announced during the 2007 conference in Vienna."

rGeoffrey writes "Going to YAPC::America in Houston, OSCON in Portland, or YAPC::Europe in Vienna this conference season? Do you want one third of your "15 minutes of fame"? Then give a Lightning Talk on some topic that speaks to you. Submissions now being accepted for Houston, Portland, and Vienna. Or go wild and crazy and try for 5 minutes at each of the three and get all 15 minutes in one ten week span."

Qiang writes "PerlChina is organizing a workshop in Beijing on sunday, June 17, 2007. The workshop is free for all. Registration is not mandatory, but please register youself if you are going to attend.

jfluhmann writes "YAPC::NA 2007 is only 15 days away! If you haven't already registered, it's not too late! Visit the YAPC::NA website to get registered. Don't miss out on the largest Perl gathering of North America!