Yet Another Perl Conference: North America 75
Anonymous Coward writes "Registration for YAPC::NA is in process. It will be held in Boca Raton, FL June 16-18. YAPC is a low-cost ($85USD) conference, but still has high quality speakers and topics. Although submissions for talks is still going on (ends March 15), many terrific ones are already in the queue. Register today!"
Re:Duplicate? (Score:2, Informative)
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In amazing news today it was discovered by the Ydnar the first-poster on Perl confrence:North America in slashdot forums, with the posting comment called of Duplicate? That in fact America and Canada have been separated as one, since the Americans decided they weren't too fond of those Canadians in 1776. Yndar was greeted by shock and amazement when he saw his posting which he thought for sure would receive a +5 insightful was modded down for being off topic. In speaking with Yndar's representatives he's currently sitting at home thinking of better things he can write for first postings in the future.
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Oh, and just so this won't be entirely off topic, I'll use a yndar strategy here and ask some questions that make it seem like I have something to say about perl even though I could get the answers from the website most likely, what's the attendance like at these things? and is there anybody who comes as a php evangelist and just riots the entire time?
Thanks thats all
Re:Duplicate? (Score:1)
finalfantasydog, champion of lurking Slashdot pseudoflamers, still smarting from Yet Another First Post slipping from his greasy fing
Ah, screw it. I have better things to do than waste my time replying to this.
Enjoy the karma, and next time notice the punctuation, assbag.
Re:Duplicate? (Score:1)
Wow! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Wow! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Define Irony: (Score:2)
-dk
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the Camel travels a lot (Score:2, Informative)
I will also keep me from writing OO comments on that one cuz i dont want two trolls comments in a row
Perl is great i love it
Anyone else? (Score:1)
Did anyone else read that and think "Oh, I wonder if they're Bose?"
Re:Anyone else? (Score:2, Offtopic)
Re:Anyone else? (Score:1)
YAPOYAPC (Score:5, Funny)
Namespace Collision (Score:5, Insightful)
I wonder if I'm not the only one who was confused by that. If these conferences are being run by different organizations, then perhaps one or both of them should consider modifying their name, so as to prevent future problems caused by "namespace collisions".
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Oh who cares about the name...cheap flights to Florida from London and back is what we really need. god, I don't ask you for much (apart from the occasional iBook) - but a cheap flight would be nice.
Yay! (Score:3, Funny)
(AEPPRA!)
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What presentations? (Score:1)
I couldn't find any info on the speakers they're having. Does anybody have specific info?
This is not a duplicate... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:This is not a duplicate... (Score:2, Interesting)
Why yet another bricks-and-mortar conference? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Why yet another bricks-and-mortar conference? (Score:5, Insightful)
Of course, its a bunch of Perl hackers, so conversations might be short and cryptic, which pretty much describes Internet communications.
clueless (Score:2)
logo comparisons... (Score:2)
Re:logo comparisons... (Score:1)
TIMTOWTAC (Score:2, Funny)
More info (Score:4, Interesting)
The entire point is trying to bring Perl to the masses and get as many people together as possible from all uses of perl or even possibly using perl, to sit and talk about perl, with money not being a limit, a real community conference. They also has the ability for you as a user to give up and give your own small 5-mintue talk on Perl if you have expertise/experience on any particular part of it. This is the way to do conferences in the future, get as many smart people together and have them advance whatever you want, no open source conferences should be priced as high as some of the other ones I've seen.
Re:More info (Score:1)
If it's `for the masses', why did they schedule it for Monday the 16th through Wednesday the 18th, when most of the masses I know will be at work?
I love perl, and I live within driving distance of this thing, and I could afford $85... but I can't get my employer to pay for it (we're primarily a Java shop. Bleah, but it pays the bills), and I can't take 3 days off at the beginning of the week. Sucks to be me.
Ah well. From what I can see on their web site, nobody I ever heard of is going to be there. I would skip one day of work to see Larry Wall, Randall Schwartz, or somebody else whose books I own give a talk, but this may be nothing so interesting.
Has anyone reading this ever been to one of these YAPC things? Are they interesting, informative, worth taking off work for, etc?
Thank god no border crossing (Score:1)
Re:the sentence at the bottom says: (Score:1)
"Where there is smoke - there is fire."
flamebait? (Score:1, Offtopic)