French Perl Workshop 2012: Call for Papers

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May 012012
 

The French Perl Workshop 2012 edition will take place in the Epitech de Strasbourg, on the 29th and 30th of June.

This new location allows us to rethink the event: longer breaks (for more informal communication), space for decisions makers; we emphasize dialog, meeting, practicing and interactivity.

In order to be a success, this conference need speakers and presentations.

French is preferred, but English is fine too.

Some already registered attendees are english speakers.

The theme this year is “Meeting, Learning, Playing, Creating”.

 Posted by at 10:47

Free Perl Training London

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Apr 242012
 

Dave Cross will be running a free, one-day Perl course at Google Campus in London on Saturday 4th August.

You can register at http://perltraining.eventbrite.co.uk/.

The course is called “Modern Perl for Non-Perl Programmers” and it will be aimed at people who haven’t written any Perl (or who have written very little Perl) and over six hours the course will persuade them just how useful modern Perl is.

That, of course, means that readers of Perl News aren’t really in the target audience. But I expect that you all know people who are (it’s very unlikely that any of you don’t know any non-Perl programmers). So I’d like to ask for your help in promoting the course. Please share the link in as many places as you can think of where non-Perl programmers might congregate.

Eventbrite - Modern Perl for Non-Perl Programmers

 Posted by at 08:40

GSoC 2012

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Apr 112012
 

Note: The Perl Foundation did not get accepted to this year’s event.

Once again the Perl Foundation will be attempting to participate in the 7th GSoC, which was announced on the 4th February 2012.

The organising team are currently seeking ideas and help with mentors and students, you can join #soc-help on irc.perl.org for more information or follow the links below. Flyers and support material is available on the Perl Foundation’s Press Release Page

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EPO launch new membership and donations site

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Apr 102012
 

The Enlightened Perl Organisation has launched its new Membership site. On this site you are now able to manage your own membership and choose how and when you would like to pay for Ordinary Membership.

You can now also donate online to:

This new site allows individual and recurring payments set to the users choice.

 Posted by at 19:17  Tagged with: , , , ,

MetaCPAN logo winner announced…

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Mar 312012
 

MetaCPAN have announced the Winning Entry to their Logo competition.

Congratulations to Raul Matei who came up with the design which can now be see on the MetaCPAN site.

MetaCPAN is a free, open search engine for CPAN, which is an ever growing archive of code and documentation for the Perl programming language.

 Posted by at 11:21

Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe::2013

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Mar 092012
 

Although YAPC::Europe::2012 preparations are well underway in Frankfurt, it is time for the venue committee of the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) to think about the location of the 2013 conference. YAPC::Europe wouldn’t exist without dedicated teams of volunteers, and we are always excited to see the enthusiasm and learn about the new ideas the community has to offer.

Further information about preparing a complete application can be found here. Proposals submitted to the venue committee will be added to this public repository (you may provide private information separately) to benefit future organisers.

The deadlines which apply to this portion of the procedure are:

  1. Saturday, 7 April: Deadline for sending a letter of intent. This letter simply expresses interest in hosting the conference and provides contact information (both email and telephone) for at least two organizers. This is an optional step but it can be to your advantage to alert the venue committee of your proposal.
  2. Thursday, 5 July: Deadline for sending proposals to host YAPC::Europe 2013.

If you do not receive a confirmation for your letter of intent or proposal within a couple of days, please personally contact a member of the venue committee.

Please send your questions, letters of intent, and proposals to venue@yapceurope.org.

 Posted by at 10:11

CPAN Testers reaches 20 Million reports

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Mar 082012
 

CPAN Testers announced that on the 22nd February 2012 they reached the 20 millionth test report.

CPAN Testers test every module released to CPAN, on many different platforms and different versions of Perl.

CPAN Testers has had over 1,000 testers contribute to this figure, with their new API they are now receiving nearly 1 million reports every month and expect to reach 30 million reports by the end of the Year.

Further stats can be found on their Interesting Stats page.

 Posted by at 09:23

craigslist Fund Donates $100,000 to Perl5

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Jan 242012
 

The Perl Foundation today announced that they have received a donation of $100,000 toward Perl5 maintenance and for general use by the Perl Foundation from the craigslist Charitable Fund.

According to craigslist CEO and former Perl Hacker Jim Buckmaster, “craigslist has gloried in and relied upon Perl for most of its software development for more than a decade. craigslist Charitable Fund is honored to recognize the wizardry and generosity of the Perl community, help ensure the ongoing maintenance of Perl5, and contribute to the future evolution of Perl.” He added, “It was unclear at first how best to give something back to Perl. Fortunately there was more than one way to do it.”

For more information download the PDF Press Releases, or view the news story.

 Posted by at 17:55

Perl QA Hackathon 2012: Last call for participation

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Jan 192012
 

The Perl QA Hackathon 2012 is taking place from Friday, March 30th to Sunday, April 1st 2012 in Paris, France. Attendance is free. Attendees work on a wide variety of tools for the benefit of Perl and all who use it. The more people they have present, the more Perl will improve. Projects on the itinerary include the Perl build toolchain and many tools around CPAN.

Registration will close on January 31st, 2012, so signup sooner rather than later.

You can also propose other people who should be invited. As with past years, they aim to fund the travel and accommodation costs for those who cannot otherwise get funding.

Sponsors required

Sponsoring the event is not reserved to organizations and corporations:if you think the Hackathon is useful to the Perl community, but cannot attend yourself, you can still contribute to the success of the event by making a donation. Even small donations will help and would be greatly appreciated.

 Posted by at 06:45

MetaCPAN logo competition announced

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Dec 172011
 

The MetaCPAN team have announced a competition to design them a logo, the winning entry will get a prize of $400 USD, not to mention having their design used on this great site.

The prize has been provided by the Enlightened Perl Organisation

The deadline is the 13th of January 2012, so make sure to have your laptop with you over the holiday season.

For more information visit http://contest.metacpan.org/ or see the entries so far.

 Posted by at 15:59
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