Don Vito Perleone

It's been over a week now since the Austrian Perl Workshop of 2014. It took place in Salzburg for the second consecutive year. On Thursday, the day before the conference started, Mozart's home town greeted the attendants with glorious summer weather and amazing 26 degrees Celsius.

The organizers managed to secure a number of high calibre guests, starting with the Perl 6 luminaries Liz Mattijsen, Patrick Michaud, Larry Wall, Jonathan Worthington, as well as DBI mastermind Tim Bunce. That lead to a record number of participants, making this the largest Austrian Perl Workshop ever. Unfortunately, Vienna.pm stalwart domm was absent due to work commitments in California.

I particularly enjoyed some of the peripheral talks, for example "From metabolic modeling to tissue engineering - Systems biology with Perl" by Christian Jungreuthmayer, "Application Logging in the 21st Century‎" by Tim Bunce on the ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack, and "Easy financial planning of your own DEV company‎" by Jüri Sementsov. Besides that, the whole conference had a definite Perl 6 vibe, and left me with a really good feeling.

The first two days were filled up with talks, and the second two days were dedicated to a hackathon, which I didn't take part in. For next year's Austrian Perl Workshop there's now some competition between Innsbruck (which I prefer for purely selfish logistical reasons) and Linz. And there's been some sign of life from the organizers of the German Perl Workshop 2015 in Dresden, the tentative date announced is "early May".

[Read part 1 about the Swiss Perl Workshop 2014]