Archive for February, 2010

A Mat to put Beer on (as opposed to the Matt you put beer in)

My Ironman Status Having a certain swagger… By now I hope most of you have been following Gabor Szabo‘s and Renée Bäcker’s efforts to get Perl promoted at non-Perl conferences (see events on the TPF wiki here) and like me are in support. Their efforts are supported by The Perl Foundation, the YAPC Europe Foundation [...]

Send-A-Newbie

My Ironman Status What is it? It’s it… The Send a Newbie program is designed to introduce new people to YAPC’s by collecting sponsorship from supporting companies. It was successfully run by Edmund von der Burg last year, but due to other circumstances Edmund has decided to pass the reins on this year and asked [...]

The terrible things (3): Daisy, meet daisy, meet…

My Ironman Status This is the third article based upon my Keynote that I presented this year and is part of a series of articles on the Terrible Things We All Must Do. Lead but not always complete… Last week I said that I would continue to do these Daisy Chain articles eventhough most of [...]

The terrible things (2): More daisies for the chain

My Ironman Status This is the second article based upon my Keynote that I presented this year and is part of a series of articles on the Terrible Things We All Must Do. Lead by example… One of the points I made in my Daisy Chain article last week was the need to link to [...]