To get more new participants to this years Austrian Perlworkshop we (Vienna.pm) came up with the following plan: On Saturday, 17th November, we will have one track of talks called Essential Modern Perl. We came up with ~15 topics that should introduce newcomers and old timers to the wonderful world of CPAN and the various toolkits and modules that lead to the Perl renaissance labeled Modern Perl.
We are still looking for speakers for some of the topics, so if you're near Vienna or need an excuse to visit us, just grab one of the currently un-assigned talks! Also, if you're a member of one of the core groups working on the listed modules etc and have a good presentation about the topic at hand, please let us know where we can find it (if we're allowed to reuse the slides...). We're looking for ~20 minutes introduction talks targeted at people that know programming, but do not necessarily know a lot of Perl.
If this track works out, it might be a good idea to have a similar track at as much workshops and conferences as possible. I hope it's a good way to lure new people into the Perl community. In a perfect world we'd have a repo of public slide decks covering the core topics, and orgas of events would "just" need to find some speakers to do the talks...
What do you think? Maybe there already is a repo containing those slides? Should we have such a track at a YAPC? At workshops?
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Or do you prefer to have me add short posts here, pointing to my proper blog? (of course I'd remove this blog from Ironman first to prevent duplicates)
Anyway, thanks to the people running blogs.perl.org for providing me with a blogging home after use.perl.org shut down.
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]]>If nobody steps up, there might be no YAPC::Europe 2013!
(unless I can convince the responsible parties that in case there is no group hosting the next YAPC, the current group is forced to has the honor to do it again :-)
Copy'n'pasting from my last post on this issue:
It's really not much work, and all reports from previous organizers stating otherwise are grossly exaggerated!
Here's the whole Call for Venue, and here is a detailed document on what to do to bring YAPC::Europe 2013 to your wonderful hometown. And for even more organizers know-how, check out Perl Jam an upcoming book about "How to organise a conference ... and live to tell the tale." by barbie et.al. (also available on github)
]]>The deadline for submitting a proposal is Thursday, 5 July.
So if you and your group are thinking about hosting next years YAPC, we would very much appreciate it if you'd send a short note (or a full-fledged proposal) to venue@yapceurope.org.
It's really not much work, and all reports from previous organizers stating otherwise are grossly exaggerated!
Here's the whole Call for Venue, and here is a detailed document on what to do to bring YAPC::Europe 2013 to your wonderful hometown. And for even more organizers know-how, check out Perl Jam an upcoming book about "How to organise a conference ... and live to tell the tale." by barbie et.al. (also available on github)
]]>Starting the server works fine (at least after I realized that the default hostname of "localhost.localdomain" doesn't work on my machine and I had to use "--host localhost"). Even the startpage loads perfect, but all following pages are broken, and I can't find any way to set up my users, projects, etc. And while there are some sql files lying around, there is no way to actually stuff them into a (which?) database.
The last time I installed Smolder, it came as some sort of pre-built package, which was rather horrible to install (but worked afterwards..)
So, does anybody know how to set up this beast? I couldn't find any up-to-date info, but I hereby volunteer to write a document explaining how to install and set up Smolder, if somebody points me to the right scripts/docs/whatever.
]]>Today I got two IRC messages from people who added features / fixed bugs in two of my CPAN modules. Only now I had the time to take a closer look at the requests, merge them and push the new version to CPAN and github.
You can read more about the new version of App::TimeTracker in the App::TimeTracker Blog (Thanks, plu)
CPAN::Mini::FromList is a rather old dist I hacked up during the Oslo QA Hackathon, and it seems that it's still in use up there, as Salve submitted a patch that I just had to merge and than `dzil build`.
Only slightly related: A big THANK YOU is also due to the nice members of the #catalyst IRC channel, who (again) answered my question in no time.
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