Erlangen.pm

This year six of our fellow mongers managed to attend to the YAPC::EU in Pisa, constituting the 6th-largest perl mongers delegation at the conference. Every one of us also managed to get a room in the conference hotel, so it was a very comfortable event for us all.

While the authors can't speak for all Erlangen.pm members, it seemed to be a very good conference, with lots of interesting talks, nice social events and a good many meetings in real life.

Some of the talks that kept in mind were the one by Tim Bounce about his Devel::NYTProf and the one about CPANTesters by Barbie. The latter one showes the importance of Kwalitii to the Perl community and an ambisious project to enable quality assurance in CPAN, which is said to have lots of crap in it. Jonathan Worthington impressed with a talk about Perl 6 signatures, which others praised too.

Another important thing of the conference was what companies attended to the companies. Back at my own work when I told about the people who work at New York Times, BBC or Booking.com, my co-workers seemed quite impressed and drawn to say, that the impression of Perl as a dead language is far from reality.

@Larry also attended to the conference. He auctioned a tshirt for 450€ with the help of the community. He was accompanied by his wife Gloria, his son Aaaron, and Aaron's girlfriend Nicole. Dispite being no technican at all, but rather a teacher, Nicole held an important lightning talk about technical documentation, and how easy it is to write clear and easily understandable texts even about complicated technical matters by following simple rules like shortening long sentences to easy comprehandable smaller parts. But to that we are getting later ^^.

We're looking forward to next year's YAPC in Riga.