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This is just a reminder for you if you plan to submit a talk

The Talk submission deadline is 15th July 2012 (four weeks before the conference).

The latest approval notification is on 31st of July.

We will evaluate talk submissions every three weeks and accept a handful proposals. This doesn't mean that if your talk isn't approved right away, it won't be. However, the sooner you get your talk proposals in, the better chance you have of getting a talk approved and placed on the schedule.

Please also remember
that we'…

Matt S Trout will give a talk at YAPC::Europe 2012 described as

Moose is one of my favourite things to happen to perl in the last five years, but the startup overhead and additional dependencies can be hard to justify for very small projects.

So I asked myself ... "what's the smallest portion of Moose that I could
get by with, that would be easy to build so that when I load Moose my
classes can transparently upgrade themselves?".

The result is Moo - which provides most of the basic syntax of Moose -
and rather than trying to reinvent the MOP part…

You're going to go to the Moose Hackathon? You arrive in Frankfurt a few days before the event? Then you might want to do something in Frankfurt. We've set up a wiki page with some suggestions...

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http://act.yapc.eu/ye2012/purchase

If you haven't registered yet, you can register there or register on the main site at http://yapc.eu/2012.