Archive for January, 2011

Edinburgh.PM January Social

To begin with let me plead forgiveness from my regular Perl Mongers group (http://northwestengland.pm.org/) for deserting them on the first meeting of the new year to come further north and to a different PM group meeting. I am sorry, please don’t think bad of me, it was a timing thing, I had to come to [...]

Announcing the Perl QA Hackathon 2011

QA 2011 Homepage (http://2011.qa-hackathon.org/qa2011/) Call to attention (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2011/01/msg12675.html) QA News (http://2011.qa-hackathon.org/qa2011/news) Mailing List (http://lists.perl.org/list/perl-qa.html) The fourth annual Perl Quality Assurance Hackathon will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, between Saturday 16th April and Monday 18th April 2011 and proudly hosted by Booking.com. As with previous years the attendance is gratis and the organisers hope to [...]

Send-A-Newbie YAPC::EU::2011

Conference Website (http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/) Announcement on Conference Website (http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/price/newbie.html) Send-A-Newbie Homepage (http://www.send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org/) Send-A-Newbie Donations (http://www.send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org/donations.html) Send-A-Newbie Applications (http://www.send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org/applications.html) Once again the Enlightened Perl Organisation will be organising the Send-A-Newbie initiative aimed at sending people to YAPC::EU who haven’t attended an international Perl event before. If you are new to YAPC or the Perlverse and would like [...]

Perl Oasis 2011 (Image Gallery)

The Perl Oasis 2011 proved to be, once again, a great way to start a Perl Year. I am currently sitting in the “Chill Out” room waiting for my shuttle to the airport on the last day, enjoying the random mix of conversations around me and getting inspired by the people and the atmosphere that [...]