When you come to YAPC::NA, if you decide to stay at the rooms we’ve reserved at the Lowell Center (approximately $100 per night) then you’ll also get breakfast served to you for free each morning in the Lowell Center conference rooms just down the hall from the main lecture hall. We think it’s a super sweet feature to be able to roll out of bed, take the elevator…
If you will be driving to YAPC you’re going to need a parking permit of some kind. The hotels in the area all have their own parking ramps that you can park in. Likewise if you’ll be staying at the Lowell Center it also has it’s own private parking. However, if you’re driving in each day either because you live close, or you’re staying at a hotel too far from campus to walk, then you’ll need to get yourself a
I’m going to do a rare but unapologetic plug for a company that is not sponsoring YAPC: Amtrak. About a month ago I mentioned that Amtrak is a viable means of travel for YAPC::NA 2012. However, I didn’t mention how absolutely awesome it is. I’ve used it for a few trips recently, and I’m a complete convert from air travel.
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By now you’ve probably already seen the spectacular location where we will hold the banquet for YAPC::NA 2012. However, even the best planning can’t stop the rain from pouring down occasionally. So we’ve also secured an equally beautiful location indoors in case of rain. Our backup location is the Alumni Lounge in the Pyle Center.
If you live in Wisconsin or Minnesota another travel option available to you is Badger Coaches. They have daily service from Minneapolis, La Crosse, Whitewater, and Milwaukee to Madison, and they drop off 200 feet from the YAPC::NA 2012 conference facilities! A round trip ticket from Minneapolis will set you back about $75. One of the cool features is that most of the Badger Coaches have power outlets in every seat. So if you cling to your laptop like I do, then you’ll be able to stay…
Attendees wishing to stay in dorm accommodations at YAPC::NA 2012 will be staying in a great facility called Chadbourne Hall. It’s outfitted with an amazing set of amenities in each room.
…YAPC traditionally has an opening plenary session on the first morning, and plenary sessions before the lightning talks each afternoon. However, on the second and third mornings there usually is no plenary session.
This year we’re going to add a 10 minute plenary session at 8:40am before each day’s events. We’ll use this time to announce changes in the schedule, sell raffle tickets, announce daily contests, and generally keep you informed so that you can get the most out of that day’s activities.
DuckDuckGo is looking for volunteers to help them convert their web service APIs to CPAN modules. They’d like their mostly Perl search engine to also have native Perl bindings, not just web services. If you’re interested in helping out, check out the wiki and contact Torsten Raudssus to get started.
At the MadMongers meeting last week a local entrepreneur, Adam Braus, stopped by to pitch his idea for a new email analytics system.
He's looking to hire a Perl developer to help him with this. If you're interested, please contact him.
DuckDuckGo is a general purpose search engine, primarily written in Perl. DDG offers way more instant answers, way less spam/clutter and real privacy. DuckDuckGo has been giving back to open source, and…
We’re trying to pull off a fairly major overhaul of Act, the conference registration system in time for YAPC::NA 2012. So far we’ve already converted it from mod_perl 1 to Plack, and added Twitter and Facebook authentication. We have another dozen features to add, and more that we could add if we had help.
…Due to the feedback we’ve gotten from previous year’s surveys, as well as many blog posts and other rants in the Perl community, we’ve decided to replace the long-standing tradition of a charity auction with something new at YAPC::NA 2012. We thought about perhaps doing a silent auction, but we wanted to set it apart from that, and we wanted to make something that anybody could get in on, not just those with large amounts of cash to spare. So instead, we’ve decided to do a…
No Starch Press will be providing some of their entertaining and insightful books as prizes at YAPC::NA 2012. We’re so glad to have them as a sponsor. And the books they sell would make great Christmas gifts this year.
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I’d like to officially thank ThinkGeek for becoming a Silver Level sponsor of YAPC::NA 2012. You are probably all aware of Think Geek and the amazing selection of geeky items they have for sale. Either way, it’s a great place to start your holiday shopping this year!
We have secured space for exactly three booths to be set up for the entire duration of YAPC::NA 2012. These booths will be placed in the main entrance of the Pyle Center (the conference facilities) where all attendees will travel as they go between sessions, enter and exit the building, use the elevators, or go to and from the job fair. This is really the perfect opportunity to get your company’s message out, recruit attendees for open positions, and participate as a major…
Dyn is looking for a Perl developer to join our ecommerce back-end development team. The successful candidate will work on “nuts and bolts” back-end projects that deliver the functionality and experience our marketing team and users expect. Some familiarity with web development would be helpful. However, this is not a front-end web development role. Required Skills
Dyn is looking for both junior and senior system administrators with Perl experience. Much of their administrative systems are written using Perl.
Description
A Junior System Administrator is responsible for keeping Dyn’s global IP anycast network available and performing well. Job responsibilities include deploying new systems to production, upgrading existing deployments to handle additional load and/…
Rob Hoelz, the leader of our software team for YAPC::NA 2012, is holding an Act workshop from 5pm to 7pm at the Essen Haus tonight. Don’t worry if you can’t make it for the entire two hours. People are free to come and go as they please. But if you want to learn about how you can help enhance Act for YAPC, then you should definitely try to make it.
…One of the things we’re toying with for YAPC::NA 2012 is the idea of an unconference track. The idea is that we’d provide a whiteboard for people to write out ideas for ad-hoc presentations at the beginning of the conference, and others would sign up to attend those ideas. The topics could be about Perl, CPAN, or something completely unrelated. We’d provide a room with a projector and a whiteboard, specifically for this track. The most popular ideas would be given time slots.
…With the American holiday of Thanksgiving right around the corner, perhaps it's time to consider what you are thankful for, and hopefully one of those things is YAPC. If so, you can show your thankfulness by marking down on the paper or digital calendar of your choice that you're coming to YAPC::NA 2012 on June 13-15 in Madison, WI. And if you're not sure you can afford it, ask for it as a Christmas present!
…Rob Hoelz, the leader of our software team for YAPC::NA 2012, is holding an Act workshop from 5pm to 7pm at the Essen Haus on Tuesday, November 15th. These are the two hours before our normal MadMongers meet up. Don't worry if you can't make it for the entire two hours. People are free to come and go as they please. But if you want to learn about how you can help enhance Act for YAPC, then you should definitely try to make…
We are officially having a Hackathon at YAPC::NA 2012. The hackathon will be June 11 & 12 (the 2 days before the conference). We decided to make it two days so that as much work as possible can get accomplished at the YAPC Hackathon.
We'll work with community members between now and the conference to determine if it should be a free-for-all event, or if it should have structure and goals. If it is decided t…
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