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Yet Another Perl Conference: North America
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!"
Duplicate?
deja vu
The YAPC take-off on YACC is too much. :/
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Oh man, which one do I sign up for? The one announced a couple of days ago or this one?
Yet Another Slashdot Dupe
Why not just add to the previous stories about the conferences?
It's not a dupe! This one iss innn Floriidaaa. Biiig differrreeeennnnce.
Musssst beeeeeee aaaa -ssllooowwww- nnneeewwwsss nighhhhttt.
actually this post is not a dupe it was the one for canada announced a couples hours ago...
:-)
:-)
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
Overuse of the Pumping Lemma causes blindness
YAPC is a low-cost ($85USD) conference, but still has high quality speakers and topics.
Did anyone else read that and think "Oh, I wonder if they're Bose?"
He already died yesterday. Don't you trolls ever read Slashdot before posting?
Yet Another Posting Of Yet Another PERL Conferance
I was about to scream "this is a dupe!!", and then I looked carefully at the dates of the conference in each story.
:-)
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".
Another easily-pronounceable perl-related acronym!
(AEPPRA!)
many terrific ones are already in the queue
I couldn't find any info on the speakers they're having. Does anybody have specific info?
- Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
- May 15-16
This slashdot story:- Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A.
- June 16-18
It's so cheap, maybe I'll go to both (if I can score some airfareVery popular slashdot journal for adul
99.999% of nerds in North America don't have the time and money to waste to fly to Boca Raton, Florida for a Perl conference. Why not hold the conference online, using IRC, audio broadcasts, and things like that? Especially considering the fact that this kind of conference would only concern computer-savvy nerds.
Repeal the DMCA!
Right now, I'm seriously wondering how much you have to pay to get your ad posted as a slashdot story. When I first saw the YAPC story yesterday, I thought it was sort of weird to have a perl conference posted to the front page. But now, I can't think of how the /. editors could unintentionally post two of these.
Sure, mod me down, but I'm serious.
Perl is blazingly fast on these $100 laptops.
from their website: http://yapc.org/America/images/yapcbg.jpg from yoper: http://www.yoper.com/images/header2.png Those two 'Y' logos look awfully similar in concept don't they?
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Just what we need. More homos.
There is more than one way to attend a conference
The entire point of the Yet another Perl conferences is that they are aimed at people like the average slashdot user, with them being priced at 85 dollars. You don't have to be someone in a tech corporation , that has thousands of dollars to send their employees to conferences, to be able to go here. It's a full conference at lowered prices
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.
So many PERL developers are here illegal. Not me, but lots of visas expire and those peoples would never risk going to Canada for this.
I suggest you read Slashdot
Another stinker floats its way down the porcelain tube. Woops, sorry.
:)
The last article, about Cow Manure, had a *fresh* impression on my mind.
I am the nightmare of nightmares.
...giving all the Perl hotties Perl necklaces once you get to the conference?
"Where there are visible vapors, having their prevenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration"
which means
Materials made mostly of carbon, when on fire and producing smoke like stuff, are on fire.
If something is ignited, it by definition conflagrates.
x=x
mere redundancy.
You might as well put at the bottom, "Blue things are blue."
Off topic, yeah, well, so where am I supposed to respond to inane dribble at the bottom of the screen?
I'm not supposed to respond?? Ha! Right. Tell me another.
Poo that would smell.
$85 is considered cheap? Maybe that's why i've nvr been to one of these types a thingies. Is that actually cheap? maybe im just a cheap ass
I am the troll. So go ahead and hate me.
...I'm glad this one's in Florida and not Canada because I'm really looking forward to meeting some of the bikini-clad lady Perl developers.
that all these posts are about being a dupe, not being a dupe. Does anyone actually have anything to say about the perl conference thingy?
ohwell
I am the troll. So go ahead and hate me.
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I agree, this is a huge waste of resources. I also don't understand why people go to live concerts when they can download the bootleg over Gnutella.
but what do i know, i'm just a model.
Bash scripting, you insensitive clod!
Talk about being in my back yard. Literally, my back yard borders with the FAU campus!
:-)
I guess my girlfriend and I can make it to this one.
Please hold such conferences in countries where "free" still means "free".
"I love my job, but I hate talking to people like you" (Freddie Mercury)
Bah, $85.00 should be for only seeing the speakers, I am getting really sick of paying to wander around and talk to vendors. Talking to vendors and begging for swag should be 100% free.
It's just like these scumbag $5.00 entry fee to the "sale of the century" this weekend only at the deltaplex!"
you want me to see your product and your vendors, give me free tickets other wise I am not going to be there.
And as for the speakers, when was the last time you came away from one of these with ANYTHING valuable? read the speakers last 3 articles and you will know what they are going to say at the show.
This isn't "flamebait". These are my honest feelings, I'm afraid of travelling to the USA, although I would like to attend the conference.
"I love my job, but I hate talking to people like you" (Freddie Mercury)
If they must hold it in Florida, why not Orlando, so we can at least go to the Disney (yes, yes, they're evil, too) water parks?