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BooK writes "The YAPC Europe Foundation's treasurer has put all the Foundation's financial reports (from 2004 to present) online. For those not interested in the gory details of "what has YEF been doing with the money it got from donations", there's also a global picture.

This information is made public because YEF gets its funding from the Perl community, which has a right to know what's done with its money, and also in the hope that it will make the YAPC Europe Foundation's purpose clearer to everyone."

hcchien writes "We are glad to announce the OSDC.TW 2010 will be at 2010/4/24-25 in Acadmeia Sinica, Taipei. So it's time to call for papers now. If you work for any interesting open source projects. It is a good time to introduce your projects to the open source developers in Taiwan. And sure, we would like to get the talks about the developing tips and experence sharing. The deadline of call of paper is 31th, January, 2010. And we accept three kind of talks:

tutorial: 3 hours, and we would provide the flight fee if the speakers are out of Taiwan. session: 1 hour.
lightning talk: 5 minute.

If you are interesting to submit the papers, please isending mail to submit@osdc.tw, and including the author intro and extract."

nuba writes "We are proud to announce the YAPC::Brasil 2009, to be held from 30/October to 1/November in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

We have humble goals this year: to put forth the greatest YAPC::Brasil ever, celebrate the Joy of Perl among ourselves, and tempt everyone else to join us in developing the programming language that has the happiest users!

We hope to deliver expertise in all levels, from introductory workshops {say "hello Perl!"} to perlguts, SMOP, Reaction and Metaprogramming to list a few and also a good number of slots for lightning talks to encourage newcomers!

Niterói holds one of the highest Human Development Indexes (HDI) of the country, and stays just a 15-minute ferry boat ride away from the famous, infamous and glamorous Rio de Janeiro. If you happen to be nearby, hop aboard and come join us!

More information:
http://yapcbrasil.org.br/2009
http://twitter.com/yapcbrasil #yapcbrasil09
organizacao@yapcbrasil.org.br"

BooK writes "While YAPC::Europe 2009 preparations are well underway in Lisbon, it is time for the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) to look for suitable sites for the 2010 conference. Any dedicated group interested in hosting YAPC::Europe 2010 should send a brief statement of intent to venue@yapceurope.org. This should be followed by a complete application. The deadline for applications is June 30, 2009.

For details on how to prepare your complete application, consider the examples of previous conferences. If your proposal is selected, it will be added to the others on this page (you will have the opportunity to remove private information first). Be certain to include contact information (including telephone numbers) for at least two members of the group.

You may also direct any questions to the aforementioned email address.

A decision on the location will be publicly announced at the start of the Lisbon conference.

Looking forward to your submissions,
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
on behalf of the YAPC::Europe Venue Committee"

Qiang writes "just a quick announcement that PerlChina is going to host a Beijing Perl Workshop on Nov 08, 2008.

It is jointly organized with the postgresql china that means there will be some postgresql talks as well. We have also secured few sponsorships to fly Jesse Vincent and two other postgresql hackers to the workshop. The conference website is not ready yet (having problem finding someone from ACT to move our test ACT site into production). If you are planning a trip to beijing in the early November, send a email to conference[at]perlchina.org to register the workshop, or even better come give a talk(20,40 minutes or lighting talk)!"

I have launched the yapc.tv website, which is intended to collect videos from Perl events we all organize.

I am not quite sure what will it be in a month of a year, but currently I am (very slowly) adding videos that were made at YAPC::Europe 2008 in Copenhagen, starting from lightning talks.

There are some ideas how to make video recodings more cool (all current ones suck in different aspects). I am going to implement one brilliant idea at Italian Perl Workshop in September if the organizers allow me do that :-)

Special thanks to Henrik Tougaard, who had presented me a tripod to replace one I forget at home.

By the way, perl.tv domain was already registered, but I find yapc.tv name very nice.

P. S. If anyone can offer of suggest hosting where I could freely put large FLV files, please let me know. The problem is that foreign traffic is free for me untill it is less than traffic which goes inside Russia. Google, YouTube, Vimeo etc. are quite good but there I will not be able to manipulate video transformations as I wish.

Last couple of days I was in rush with gathering more reasons to host YAPC Europe in Moscow.

And here are our 13 reasons!

The second newsletter is out, attempting to recapture what rotten things are going on in the state of Denmark and what the Copenhagen Perl Mongers are up to.

http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/newsletter_02.html (link corrected -Ed)

Read about keynotes, talks, sponsorships and the not yet scheduled 4th. track.

There is also a news feed at: http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/atom/en.xml

Thank you,

jonasbn, on behalf of the Copenhagen Perl Mongers

This is a reminder that 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 Jeremy Fluhmann (fluhmann at perlfoundation dot org).

http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/yapcna_2009_call_for_venue_clo.html

The silence has been broken! We have published the first 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"