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.

Re:Wow!

[corsec67]

use a rand() to decide.

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.

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". :-)

Yay!

[B3ryllium]

Another easily-pronounceable perl-related acronym!

(AEPPRA!)

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. :)

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.