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!"

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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". :-)

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. :)

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[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.