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!"

Comments

Re:Duplicate?

[mbadolato]

No, Boca Raton is not in Canada.

Wow!

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh man, which one do I sign up for? The one announced a couple of days ago or this one?

Re:Wow!

[corsec67]

use a rand() to decide.

One Story

[Daveman692]

Why not just add to the previous stories about the conferences?

the Camel travels a lot

[jeepee]

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 :-)

Re:Duplicate?

[Anonymous Coward]

I do think we should sell Florida to them, though. It's causing us nothing but trouble. Anthrax, presidential elections, etc.

Anyone else?

[SexyTr0llGal]

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?"

Re:Anyone else?

[BitHive]

No, because Bose speakers are of mediocre quality and are overpriced.

Re:Anyone else?

[MegaHamsterX]

That would fit well in Boca Raton!

Re:Duplicate?

[finalfantasydog]

Breaking News:

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.

________________________________________________ __

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

YAPOYAPC

[Alpha_Nerd]

Yet Another Posting Of Yet Another PERL Conferance

Namespace Collision

[dmuth]

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". :-)

Re:Namespace Collision

[god]

YAPC is an umbrella organisation which helps organise cheap, community Perl conferences. This year we have conferences in locations such as Paris, Israel, Boca Raton and Ottowa, and releated workshops in Bonn and Copenhagen. The namespace collision is intentional.

Re:Namespace Collision

[twoshortplanks]

Shouldn't it be YAPC::NA::Canada and YAPC::NA::US?

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.

Re:Define Irony:

[dknj]

wow and all this time i thought the average age of slashdot posters was 6 years old.. it must be lower :-)

-dk

Yay!

[B3ryllium]

Another easily-pronounceable perl-related acronym!

(AEPPRA!)

Re:Yay!

[jhlyons3]

YAUPA: Yet another unpronouncable Perl acronym.

Re:Yay!

[B3ryllium]

Hmm, you're right, that's slightly more on-topic. I was just being sarcastic :)

What presentations?

[tedhiltonhead]

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?

This is not a duplicate...

[$$$$$exyGal]

This is not a duplicate slashdot story. Previous slashdot story 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 airfare ;-)).

Re:This is not a duplicate...

[Goalie_Ca]

This story has really began some good 'ol conversation of dupe vs !dupe.

Why yet another bricks-and-mortar conference?

[Tuxinatorium]

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.

Re:Why yet another bricks-and-mortar conference?

[Dunkalis]

Because meeting people in the real world is fun. I love meeting new people, and discussing stuff with them. I'd pay money to go to a conference to learn new things, but if it was online only, I wouldn't consider "going," because the Internet is a bit too impersonal. Have you ever tried telling a story or joke online and have it not work because they aren't physically there and can't understand your attitude or tone? I use IM and email to talk to friends, and only friends, since I know how they would say things, why they would say things, etc. It doesn't work well online unless you know the person in real life.

Of course, its a bunch of Perl hackers, so conversations might be short and cryptic, which pretty much describes Internet communications. :)

logo comparisons...

[jpt.d]

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?

Re:logo comparisons...

[norweigiantroll]

Not really, one is lowercase, one upper. one is an outline 'y' connected with the (part) circle, one is in black solid Y on top of a red circle. The only similarities are a Serif font and a circle.

TIMTOWTAC

[Anonymous Coward]

There is more than one way to attend a conference

More info

[finalfantasydog]

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.

Re:More info

[Urchlay]

> 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.

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

[Hao Wu]

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.

Re:Duplicate?

[ydnar]

In other news:

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?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, Boca Raton is not in Canada.

...yet. *shifty eyes*

clueless

[n3k5]

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.

Re:the sentence at the bottom says:

[anocelot]

I think it might be an obfuscation of a common addage:

"Where there is smoke - there is fire."

Re:Duplicate?

[anocelot]

The PHP people would show up after the conference was over... :)