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Has there been any discussions anywhere about setting up a scheme for managing micropayments and/or bounties on CPAN and/or the RT infrastructure?

With the recession and everything, it seems as such a useful feature to have.

Nordic Perl Workshop 2009 is done! I think it went acceptably well. Even got some of the attendees from Go Open to come listen to Perl talks. We even managed to give a bunch of new Perl baseball cards (just like the one with Larry, at YAPC::EU::2008.) If you want one of those, make sure to ask the speakers next time you see them. :)

Thanks go to everyone who showed up - the attendees, the NPW volunteers, the Go Open organizers, the NUUG video group and the sponsors: The Norwegian Open Source Competence Center, Redpill Linpro, The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, ABC Startsiden, Opera Software, Onsite Solutions and Palmquist Consulting.

Well done, everyone!

And now, let's get on with the hackathon! :)

The venue is stunning, the schedule is done and the only thing is we need now is an idea on how many people will show up on each of the tracks. If you're coming, please log in on the perlworkshop.no site and tell us which talks you intend to attend! (Click on the stars in the schedule)

Oh, and wednesday evening we'll have a social meetup at The Dubliner Folk Pub from 18:00 and onwards. Hope to see you there! :)

The call for papers is out now!

The workshop's topic is "Your future with Perl" and we're interested in hearing about your talks on these topics:

• Perl 6, Rakudo, Parrot
• Modern use of Perl
• Good testing practices using Perl
• Perl used in new and novel ways
• Your Favourite Topic? (systems administration / life sciences / web development)

To submit a proposal for a talk/presentation, please register your proposed title and an abstract.

Submissions are due midnight (23:59 CET) on January 11th 2009.

Oh, and if you want to keep up-to-date, then subscribe to the NPW Atom feed!

Seems I've been neglecting this journal a while...

Lots of things have happened since last time. Oslo Perl Mongers is still alive and kicking, and we've even come as far as finding time to arrange the third Nordic Perl Workshop this summer, which is kind of neat. :-)

I'll try to update this spot a bit more often now... (Yeah, I know... Promises, promises!)

We didn't find anyone to talk about perl-stuff at the march Oslo.pm meeting. :-(

How does one recognize Perl people with both organizitis and free time to spare? I think Oslo.pm needs more people like that. I'm just mildly affected by that "disease" and that might not be enough to keep Oslo.pm running... Sadly this can also affect our work with COFSINO, since we were asked if we could talk about Perl at the conference. *sigh*

In other news, my Grand Master Plan is slowly materializing into the form of a website. More info later! :)

Last friday was my last day at work! Now I'm unemployed, and look forward to doing some of my own stuff... :)

Next Wednesday, one of the friendly fellows at Linpro will talk about Mail::Audit, and on how to gather lots of nice statistics using that and some other modules. It seems Oslo.pm might very well keep on running! Let's hope someone will volunteer to talk about something next month...

In other news, I've started one of my smaller projects, namely a short lecture about "101 Cool Things to Do with Perl." I'm at number 16 or so, and adding new items as I go along exploring some of the more sick (read: fun) features of Perl. If you know of something cool, don't hesitate telling me! :)

Also I'm slowly starting on what's going to become my "big, huge, insanely cool project"... More details later! ;)

So the topic has been decided, the location booked, invitations are out and the website has been updated. Let's hope I'll get some exposure on the use Perl; front page too. The only thing left is that someone shows up at the first ordinary Oslo.pm meeting! Yay! :)