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2009年06月03日
I'm going to YAPC::Europe 2009 in Lisbon
Last night we had a Vienna.pm meeting. I got enthusiastic about YAPC::Europe 2009 so I booked a flight to and hotel in Lisbon and bought the conference ticket. I'm looking forward to seeing fellow Perl hacker friends again, especially @keiosu, @maokt, and @kawa0117.
Tags: conferences, YAPC.
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2009年05月03日
YAPC::Asia 2008 photo slideshow
YAPC::Asia 2008 in Tokyo was fun, and I hope to be able to go to YAPC::Asia 2009 again, although the chance for that isn't so good, as I'm already taking a two-week holiday in Japan this May. But I want to show you photos I took at YAPC::Asia 2008, to encourage you to go as well. Really, it's quite an experience!
You can see the photo set on Flickr or directly here in the embedded slideshow.
Tags: Asia, conferences, YAPC.
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2009年05月02日
YAPC::Asia 2009 tentative dates
The dates for YAPC::Asia 2009 in Tokyo have been tentatively announced: the pre-event event will be on the 9th September; the actual YAPC will be on the 10th-11th September. I guess Tokyo will be still pretty hot in early September...
Tags: Asia, conferences, YAPC.
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2009年05月01日
YAPC::EU 2009 schedule announced
That was impressively fast; only hours after the YAPC::EU 2009 talk submission deadline, the schedule has been announced.
Tags: conferences, YAPC.
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2009年02月12日
Nordic Perl Workshop
I've signed up for the Nordic Perl Workshop, bought a plane ticket and booked a hotel (the Anker Best Western, recommended by Marcus Ramberg). The workshop will take place in Oslo, Norway, on 15-16 April; on Saturday and Sunday afterwards I'll participate in the Enlightened Perl Hackathon — think Catalyst, Moose and DBIx::Class, among other things.
It will be good to see Perl hacker friends again: Ingy, jrockway, nothingmuch, Marcus, Abigail, Gabor and many others. I'm thinking more and more that Perl conferences are opportunities to hang out with friends, and you can go to some talks as well if you want to.
Tags: conferences.
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Going to YAPC::Asia? Learn Japanese!
YAPC::Asia 2009 will probably be in September. I hope to be able to go; last year was fun and interesting.
If you're thinking of going — or even if you don't — you could start learning a few fundamentals of the Japanese language and writing systems. There are some really good learning sites and courses that I can recommend:
- Start with the hiragana course on iKnow
- Then do the katakana course on iKnow
- Learn basic words and kanji with the Japanese Core 2000 course on iKnow
- Take Japanese classes on eduFire
Tags: Asia, conferences, YAPC.
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2008年11月25日
HTTP::Engine Conference #1 and Shibuya.pm #10
This week sees two conferences in Tokyo — they both will only last for a few hours. The first is HTTP::Engine conference #1, or HEcon1 for short. Only about 20 to 30 attendees are expected, so it's more like a tech meet with a common theme. The talks will of course be in Japanese, but you will probably get the gist from the slides. They will be streamed live over ustream and will probably be uploaded to Nico Nico Douga.
The second conference is the Shibuya.pm #10 meeting, and it is rather larger in scale. It too will only last for a few hours, but more than 100 attendees are expected, and there will be remote venues in Osaka/Kyoto and in Fukuoka. These talks will be streamed as well.
Both conferences will start in the evening in Tokyo, so they will be nice for me to watch around lunchtime at work.
Tags: Asia, conferences, HTTP::Engine.
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2008年09月17日
Korean Perl Workshop 2008
The Korean Perl Workshop 2008 took place in Seoul on 23rd August; its topic was "Rising Perl". The Korean Perl Mongers are already very active, meeting every week for seven hours to study the language. But this was their first Perl workshop, and I'm very happy to learn that my talk about Perl in Japan and Korea inspired them to do it. Apparently 70 people attended, but they could have had 300 if the venue was big enough.
You can also see the presentations and slides. Of course, most of the slides are in Korean and are written in Hangul, but if you can read Hangul, you will be able to make out certain keywords. Hangul is really easy to learn too — it's just an alphabet, based around syllables.
I've suggested that it might be a nice idea to have another Korean Perl Workshop maybe a week before or after YAPC::Asia 2009. This way you could see Perl events in both Japan and Korea, which to me sounds very interesting and appealing.
Actually, the TwinCity Perl Workshop was advertised as the 100th Perl conference ever, but that was before Philippe Bruhat (BooK), the conference list maintainer, has learned about the Korean Perl Workshop. So now it seems that the Korean Perl Workshop was the 100th Perl conference. I had only mentioned it to BooK because I was not sure whether he was aware of it, but this inadvertently relegated the TwinCity Perl Workshop to 101st place; a fact that will surely not help in making me popular with the TwinCity Perl Workshop organisers…
Tags: Asia, conferences.
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2008年09月16日
TwinCity Perl Workshop
This is a public service announcement, taken from use.perl.
Vienna.pm has set aside a budget of 1000 Euro to invite speakers to the TwinCity Perl Workshop. If you're not living in Bratislava or Vienna, won't be funded by your company, but want to attend and give a talk, please send e-mail to twincity -at- rt.useperl.at describing why we should invite you and how much it will cost to transport you to Vienna and Bratislava! The deadline for proposals is Sunday 21st September 2008, and we will decide whom to invite until Wed, 24th September.
Of course we're also looking for regular attendees, local speakers and sponsors! :-)
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2008年09月13日
YAPC::Europe 2008
YAPC::Europe 2008 has been over for a while, and quite a few people have written about it and posted pictures, slides and videos. So I won't reiterate all that information here but will write about subjective impressions.
I liked the conference a lot; the selection of talks was interesting and the venue was excellent. The conference dinner was good as well, but as a suggestion — if you're going to have a buffet, please don't make it a sit-down dinner. The idea of "this row goes first, that row goes last" just doesn't work. Having said that, there was enough food for everyone, and it was good. YAPC::Asia 2008 did it well; there were big tables with food and drinks and people just wandered around, socialized and took whatever they wanted from the buffet - there was no queue.
If you're ever in Copenhagen, avoid the Cabinn Hotels. Their motto is "Sleep Cheap in Luxury", but it's a lie — the only true word is "in". It was not cheap (I've stayed in a much better hotel in Tokyo for two-thirds the price), it certainly was not luxurious, and as for sleep — well, the bed wasn't comfortable either. I've realized that when I'm going to Perl conferences, I want to have a good time and get motivation, and there aren't that many conferences I'll go to, so in the future I'll choose nice hotels.
The other thing I'd like to comment on is the auction. Please make it faster next time — see how Greg (McCarroll) does it. And leave out the stripping, wrestling and other "laddish" things — are you still wondering why there are so few women in the Perl community?
But all this nagging shouldn't detract from the fact that I've thoroughly enjoyed myself; it was good to meet all the people again, to get fresh ideas, and to get a feeling of belonging within the Perl community. Congratulations and thanks to the organizers.
I've uploaded some photos from Copenhagen and the YAPC.
Tags: conferences, YAPC.
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