I'm also head of Vienna.pm [pm.org], maintainer of the CPANTS [perl.org] project, member of the TPF Grants Commitee [perl.org] and the YAPC Europe Foundation [yapceurope.org].
I've got stuff on CPAN [cpan.org], held various talks [domm.plix.at] and organised YAPC::Europe 2007 in Vienna [yapceurope.org].
Go check it out and register for the workshop!
The deadline for submitting talks for the Twin City Perl Workshop 2008 is approaching fast! There's a little bit more than one week left to submit your proposals.
We are looking for talks on Perl or related issues (coding best practices, web developement, AJAX, project management,
Call for Papers Deadline on Tue, 7th Oct
The deadline for submitting talks for the Twin City Perl Workshop 2008 is approaching fast! There's a little bit more than one week left to submit your proposals.
We are looking for talks on Perl or related issues (coding best practices, web developement, AJAX, project management,
Of course we're also looking for regular attendees, local speakers and sponsors!
Vienna.pm has set aside a budget of 1000 Euro to invite speakers to the Twin City Perl Workshop. If you're not living in Bratislava or Vienna, won't be funded by your company, but want to attend & give a talk, please send e-mail to twincity[å†]rt.useperl.at describing why we should invite you and how much it will cost to transport you to Vienna and Bratislava! The deadline for proposals is Sunday 21th Sept. 2008, and we will decide whom to invite until Wed, 24th Sept.
Of course we're also looking for regular attendees, local speakers and sponsors!
On behalf of Vienna.pm and Bratislava.pm I'm pleased to announce the Twin City Perl Workshop 2008 !
The Twin City Perl Workshop 2008 will not only be the 100th grassroot Perl event in history (according to BooK, at least), but also the first Perl event taking place in two national capitals.
On Friday, 7th November, Vienna.pm will welcome Perl Hackers from around the world to Vienna. The event will continue on Saturday, 8th November, in Bratislava, hosted by Bratislava.pm. Each day will feature talks in the local language (German and Slovak) in the morning, followed by English talks in the afternoon. The evenings will be spent at social events in restaurants near the venues. In case you're not so good in geography, the distance between Vienna and Bratislava is ~65km, so it's quite easy to travel from one city to the other (by car, train, bus or even boat).
We already accept talk proposals, and we're also happy if you might want to sponsor the event!
More information is available on our nice and shiny, ACT-powered website available here: http://conferences.yapceurope.org/tcpw2008/
The public announcement for the location of YAPC::Europe 2009 will be given during YAPC::Europe 2008 in Copenhagen. So if you want to be among the first to know where to go in 2009, come to Copenhagen this summer!
Thomas Klausner,
on behalf of the YEF Venue Committee.
The YEF Venue Committee would like to announce that we have received two very interesting bids, from two great cities, to host YAPC::Europe 2009! The two capitals, Moscow and Lisbon, have submitted very strong proposals and the YEF Venue Commitee have a very hard task ahead of them in deciding who will have the honour of hosting the next YAPC::Europe. Over the next few weeks the committee will take a very close look at the proposals, clarifying any issue we raise with the prospective organisers, before we make a final decision for the host of YAPC::Europe 2009.
The public announcement for the location of YAPC::Europe 2009 will be given during YAPC::Europe 2008 in Copenhagen. So if you want to be among the first to know where to go in 2009, come to Copenhagen this summer!
Thomas Klausner,
on behalf of the YEF Venue Committee.
So starting next week, Jonathan will work on Rakudo one full day a week (minimum of 8 hours of work), post about the work on the rakudo.org blog / use.perl.org. He will recieve € 150 per day spend working on Rakudo. We estimate that on average he will work 4 days per month. We agreed on funding three months (~ €1,800) and evalute the grant after that time. If everybody is happy, we will continue the grant until the end of 2008, where we will evaluate again (and check if we still have money left).
More info available in the WoC Wiki
So starting next week, Jonathan will work on Rakudo one full day a week (minimum of 8 hours of work), post about the work on the rakudo.org blog / use.perl.org. He will recieve € 150 per day spend working on Rakudo. We estimate that on average he will work 4 days per month. We agreed on funding three months (~ €1,800) and evalute the grant after that time. If everybody is happy, we will continue the grant until the end of 2008, where we will evaluate again (and check if we still have money left).
More info available in the WoC Wiki
If you're a maintainer of a Perl project and have something that needs doing head to the the Todo Tracker and enter a TODO test for your project. Vienna.pm will review all submitted Todo tests. Accepted Todos will be published so that people willing to implement the features / fix the bugs can apply to do them. Providing the project maintainers agree, the implementor gets some time to do his/her work and will hopefully come back with a result that fulfils the test stated with the project. When this is done and the project maintainers verify that their Todo is fixed, Vienna.pm pays the specified amount into the implementor's bank account.
The TODO Tracker was implemented by Matt S Trout, who donated the €1,000 earmarked for the development back into the TODO Budget for Catalyst and DBIC related projects. It is still a bit work in progress, but we want to go ahead before this turns into a Summer of Code...
Vienna.pm plans to spend up to €4,000, plus €1,000 more for Catalyst / DBIx::Class projects. We would again like to thank all Sponsors and Attendees of YAPC::Europe 2007 who made this project possible by making the YAPC such a big success.
You can find more information on how this project works in our wiki.
If you have any questions, suggestions or bug-reports, please send them to todo-tracker@rt.useperl.at, where a friendly RT will record them.
It took a bit (ok, a lot) longer than planned, but Vienna.pm is proud to annouce the first working prototype of the Management System for TODO Test Bounties (aka Todo Tracker) as part of the Vienna.pm Winter^WSpring of Code:
If you're a maintainer of a Perl project and have something that needs doing head to the the Todo Tracker and enter a TODO test for your project. Vienna.pm will review all submitted Todo tests. Accepted Todos will be published so that people willing to implement the features / fix the bugs can apply to do them. Providing the project maintainers agree, the implementor gets some time to do his/her work and will hopefully come back with a result that fulfils the test stated with the project. When this is done and the project maintainers verify that their Todo is fixed, Vienna.pm pays the specified amount into the implementor's bank account.
The TODO Tracker was implemented by Matt S Trout, who donated the €1,000 earmarked for the development back into the TODO Budget for Catalyst and DBIC related projects. It is still a bit work in progress, but we want to go ahead before this turns into a Summer of Code...
Vienna.pm plans to spend up to €4,000, plus €1,000 more for Catalyst / DBIx::Class projects. We would again like to thank all Sponsors and Attendees of YAPC::Europe 2007 who made this project possible by making the YAPC such a big success.
You can find more information on how this project works in our wiki.
If you have any questions, suggestions or bug-reports, please send them to todo-tracker@rt.useperl.at, where a friendly RT will record them.
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
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
11:18 <htoug> The CFP for YAPC::EU 2008 is out:
http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/cfp.html
Yay!
PS: I think I managed to be the first submitter!
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