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So the hustings are over and the bunting has been pulled down and we close the books, looks and sack the cooks as we say farewell to another London Perl Workshop for another year. But what a great year it has been.

Thanks for the memories

So as the organiser and I am privileged (and not just duty bound) to once again offer the thanks and express the gratitude to all the people who made the London Perl Workshop the great event it was once again this year.

(Some of the paraphernalia that is created for the conference)

Firstly to all the speakers for taking the time, effort, money and sometime abuse to come and present a range of world-class talks that were eagerly anticipated and gratefully received. Year after year I see new faces and returning friends and I am always surprised by the breadth of topic and depth of knowledge of our presenters.

So to our sponsors I say hoorah you wonderful people, you gave us gifts to hand out, prizes to award, beer and food to sate our lusts and most importantly a venue in which to house and contain us. A special thanks once again to Sean Tohill of the University of Westminster, Martin Brooks at Antibody, Matthew at :Bytemark, James and Amit at Venda, Ed from Nestoria, the people of Shadowcat Systems and the wonderful Dave Cross from Magnum Solutions. You people all rock.

(The Sponsored part of the bar bill, all 1.5 metres of it)

To Dave Cross, Matthew Trout and Ash Berlin I would like to give my special thanks for once again presenting a great pair of workshops. It isn’t enough for you people to present and attend you also take the time and energy to add something more and enhance our community.

To all the people who helped behind the scenes, which includes those who brought camera equipment, picked up boxes, and the great response from the audience to help clean after the event. My heartfelt thanks. But, to my wife, who sat and registered people all day, missed the conference and yet still remained happy and positive to all who approached her I give the biggest hug (this is not an open invitation to all to do the same in a physical sense).

Finally to the audience who came along, many of them new to LPW and to Perl conferences as a whole. Thanks for joining in, I look forward to seeing you at similar events and hopefully LPW next year.

Some Stats

190 People registered from 16 countries and 25 monger groups – which is 9 more than last year. We estimate that approximately 165-185 turned up on the day and we had around a dozen students from the university 8 of whom signed in after registration.

There was 3.5 hours of workshops given by three speakers. In total 38 talks lasting 16 hours were presented – only 2 talks couldn’t be given by their original authors and replacement speakers/presentations were found for them. A total of 8 lightning talks were presented.

-ttfn – Mark