YAPC::Europe 2012

YAPC::Europe 2012 proceedings are online

2012-09-05T19:09:04Z

Our paper version of the proceedings was a success. We've given away all printed versions. If you missed it or your colleagues prefer an electronic version, we have the PDF version of the proceedings now online at

http://act.yapc.eu/ye2012/stuff/proceedings_ye2012.pdf

YAPC::EU 2012 - an organizers' view - Day 1

2012-09-01T08:14:22Z

The day at the venue began at 7 a.m. and it was already very hot at that time. We did the final preparations at the registration desk and we made coffee. Then a lot of stuff was delivered: water, apple spritzer. We opened the doors at 9:30 a.m. and about 350 people came to the registration desk. They all get their name badges, their wifi credentials and a conference bag (thanks to Webfusion to sponsor the bags!) with the proceedings.

All people had to sign for the wifi credentials so the people had to wait in a queue a few minutes... But I think it worked quite well, because we started only 5 minutes late. At 10:35 Max opened YAPC::Europe 2012. After the opening session the host of next years' YAPC::Europe was announced: Kiev. Congratulations to the Kiev guys. We really look forward to next year!

The conference itself started with a keynote given by Larry. Unfortunately I can't say much about the keynotes and other talks because being an organizer you have too much to do to attend many talks. But other people blogged about YAPC as well...

During the coffee break we served some ice. This was a very hot day, so that the ice was welcome ;-)

After the talks we waited for the six buses that should bring us to the social event which took place at the "Depot 1899". The Depot Sachsenhausen was set up by the Municipal Tramway
Frankfurt's as the first own depot for the "electric". It was used as a depot until 2003. Our three mainsponsors - XING, cPanel, and booking.com - provided a hessian buffet with lots of local food and applewine.

A beautiful day came to end...

YAPC::EU 2012 - an organizers' view - Day 0

2012-08-29T11:07:21Z

We read on Twitter etc. that many attendees were on their way to
Frankfurt. Now we knew that YAPC::EU arrived ;-) Our crew met at the venue to prepare the event: check the rooms, build the paper seats, prepare registration desk, print a lot of stuff like the name badges, hang the signs and banners, prepare conference bags with proceedings and the eGENTIC flyers and much more.

After the preparations we headed to the pre-conference meeting at Café Extrablatt where we enjoyed the weather and cool drinks. We assume that there were about 200 Perl people at the meeting. Those pre-conf meetings are always a good chance to chat with old friends and conference newbies ;-)

Getting to the Venue

2012-08-13T09:00:00Z

Our intrepid mapper and OpenStreetMap contributor Wieland has created a photo walk from the Airport to the venue. It also works as a guide if you arrive by train at the main train station ("Hauptbahnhof").

The Conference T-Shirts

2012-08-12T09:00:00Z

The T-Shirts have finally arrived. Weirdly, some of them are longsleeved, which we didn't order. But there's no time to send them back. Maybe you can wear them in winter.

We chose to go for two colors for attendees this year, blue and grey. I hope you like them. The bright yellow ones are for the organizers, so they stick out.

Schedule for YAPC::Europe 2012 is online

2012-08-09T17:04:56Z

After hard work and many trade-offs, we have finished the schedule for this years YAPC::Europe. Find the three days on the YAPC::Europe website (iCal export).

Unfortunately it is likely that there still are talk conflicts where you would like to attend two or more talks at the same time. We are recording some of the tracks, so hopefully you can watch the talks you missed after the event.

Social Event at Depot 1899 in Frankfurt am Main

2012-08-09T16:59:34Z

On the evening of the first day of the conference, we will hold the Social Event
at the Depot 1899 in the lovely Sachsenhausen part of Frankfurt.
Here you will be able to wind down from a day of talks with a buffet.

We arranged a bus transfer from the University to Sachsenhausen. As Sachsenhausen is
close to the city centre, you may want to finish the day by taking a walk
through Sachsenhausen back to your hotel or by taking the bus transfer
or a tram back to the university.

PetaMem sponsors YAPC::Europe 2012

2012-08-01T11:01:09Z

We are happy to announce that PetaMem supports YAPC::Europe 2012 as a silver sponsor.

The PetaMem Group stands for substantial competence in human language
technologies, namely natural language processing and natural language
understanding. Our systems cover all areas from language
identification over machine translation to discourse systems (virtual
agents) and are used worldwide by top-profile corporations as well as
governmental institutions.

We consider Perl not just a programming language. For us, it is the
key technology responsible for the performance and success of our
systems. Designed by a linguist and applied in computational
linguistics, Perl allows us to declass those competitors who are not
using it.

Lightning Talks

2012-07-29T11:00:00Z

A grand tradition of the YAPC::Europe are the Lightning Talks, 5 minute presentations about any topic. We plan three sessions of Lightning Talks, one every day. Léon Brocard has graciously agreed to host the Lightning Talks.

Learn more about Lightning Talks at http://act.yapc.eu/ye2012/talk/4016.

If you have a presentation for a Lightning Talk session, submit it via http://act.yapc.eu/ye2012/newtalk.

Activities in Frankfurt for you and your partners

2012-07-26T19:37:41Z

Just because you're coming to a conference doesn't mean your loved ones must stay back home. And if they do come with you, the fact that you're at the conference doesn't mean they have to stay at the hotel.

We've put together some activities in and around Frankfurt on the wiki

Start times for the conference

2012-07-25T14:30:00Z

We don't have the schedule for the talks yet. To help you plan your travels, here is the rough plan into which the talks will fit:

Monday 20th, 9am to 10:30 registration
10:30 start of the conference, keynote
19pm - Social event at Depot 1899

Tuesday 21st, 10am start of the conference day 2
17:30 - end of last talk of day 2

Wednesday 22nd, 10am of the conference day 3
17:00 - end of last talk of day 3

We'll publish the more exact times once the schedule gets more solid and we've checked with the venue on the lunch times.

Books, books, books ...

2012-07-22T11:28:03Z

We will have a lot of books at the venue: Liz and Wendy will bring their incredible Perl library to the venue. If you want to know which Perl books exist, you should have a look at the library. As far as we know they have all Perl books ever written.

And there will be a booth where you can buy books. That booth is run by "Gutenberg-Buchhandlung".

Breaking Glass: Perl on Windows

2012-07-21T17:13:28Z

BinGOs will give a talk at YAPC::Europe 2012 described as

Perl. Windows. The two are often seen as incompatible.
But they aren't.

I will distill and present 13 years or so of experience of
running Perl on the Windows operating system.

Topics covered will include:

- Strawberry Perl
- ActivePerl
- Cygwin Perl
- Building Perl from source
- Active Directory manipulation with Perl

and much more.

Hunting segfaults (for beginners)

2012-07-21T14:09:11Z

Uwe Voelker will give a talk at YAPC::Europe 2012 described as

Segfaults are nasty, sometimes they are hard to detect or hard to narrow down.
This beginner level talk (in regard to segfaults) will show two ways to narrow them down: Devel::Trace and core dumps plus gdb.

address-sanitizer

2012-07-21T11:56:12Z

Reini Urban will give a talk at YAPC::Europe 2012 described as

address-sanitizer (aka ASan) is a memory error detector for C/C++, superior to valgrind. It comes with clang.
It finds:
* Use after free
* Out-of-bounds accesses to
** heap
** stack
** globals
* Use after return

It is very fast. The average slowdown of the instrumented program is ~2x, it's ~10-20x faster than valgrind. DEBUGGING builds should just use it.
The tool works on x86 Linux and Mac.
How it works, what errors it finds, some tools.