Once again I find myself acting like the archetypical London guttersnipe of the Victorian era, gleefully doffing a cap in my hand and wiping a cold tear from a dirty cheek and saying ‘please mister, or lady-miss spare a tanner to help me poor old dad who is sick of the dropsy’.
Archive for the ‘Enlightened Perl’ Category
Oslo Perl Mongers Rock
24 Aug 2012 at 20:29
mdk
Enlightened Perl, Enlightened Perl Organisation, Oslo Perl Mongers, Perl Mongers, Send A Newbie, Send-a-Newbie
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So I tweeted this message during the journey home from Frankfurt (and the wonder that was this year’s YAPC::Europe::2012) yesterday, and I couldn’t have been more sincere. OSLO PERL MONGERS ROCK So what prompted this outburst? Send-A-Newbie Funds One of the messages I gave during my Lightning Talk on Announcements at YAPC Europe this year [...]
EPO Sponsors YAPC Brasil
16 Aug 2012 at 15:06
mdk
Enlightened Perl, Enlightened Perl Organisation, Perl, Shadowcat, YAPC::Brasil, YAPCBR2012
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Proud to be a Part The Enlightened Perl Organisation today announced that they would be sponsoring YAPC::Brasil with an award of £1,000 (GBP). The YAPC::Brasil is a relative newcomer on the YAPC scene (this is their fourth year as BR) being formed out of a combined languages conference and referred to at that time as [...]
Send-a-Newbie: Meet the Awardees
13 Aug 2012 at 11:06
mdk
Enlightened Perl, Enlightened Perl Organisation, Ironman, Perl, Send A Newbie, Send-a-Newbie
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As reported in a previous post the three awardees of this year’s Send-A-Newbie initiative are: Claudio Umer Manzur We have now managed to complete the process of acquiring visas for Umer and Manzur and all the newbies[1] have arranged their travel and accommodation. If you are in Frankfurt next week you might want to say [...]
Send-A-Newbie 2012
30 Jun 2012 at 12:43
mdk
Enlightened Perl, Enlightened Perl Organisation, Perl, Send A Newbie, Send-a-Newbie, Uncategorized, YAPC, YAPCEU2012
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It is my enormous pleasure to announce the awardees for the 2012 Send-A-Newbie initiative. This year we have three applicants who were successful and they all come from across the Europe and beyond.[1] The attendees have all ensured that without the financial assistance of the EPO they would not be able to attend the event [...]
Hack Day #1
17 Mar 2012 at 19:33
mdk
Enlightened Perl, Enlightened Perl Organisation, Events, Hackathon, Ironman, North West England Perl Mongers, Perl, Presenting Perl, Shadowcat, Videos
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A Hack Attack Next saturday, 24th March 2012, the North West England Perl Mongers will be holding their first Hack Day of 2012. For the previous three years we have held hackdays as an annual event to create a local community day for fun and hacking on open source and community projects. it was decided [...]
Send-A-Newbie awardees
It gives me great pleasure to announce that this year the Enlightened Perl Organisation will be sending two people to the YAPC::EU::2011 in Riga, Latvia. The two awardees are: Moritz Onken and Manzur Mukhitdinov. The Send A Newbie initiative was started in 2009 by Edmund Von Der Burg and has been organised by the Enlightened [...]
DuckDuckGo Gain an OS Community Manager
As some of you may know, if you follow shadowcat_mdk on Twitter, I have some news to be announced later this week, but before that I have some great news to announce about a friend, and fellow community member. Torsten Raudssus, @raudssus on Twitter and Getty on irc, has been made the “Open Source Community [...]
Google Summer of Code
This year’s GSOC efforts on behalf of the Perlverse are being organised by the magnificent Florian Ragwitz (rafl on irc) on behalf of The Perl Foundation. Rafl is currently seeking ideas, students and mentors for the event and hoping that the community can help with this. Rafl has placed a page on the EPO wiki [...]
Perl Briefing Papers
Introduction Those of you who watch the Enlightened Perl Organisation’s site, or perhaps follow the channels #epo or #epo-ironman on irc.perl.org (and if you have been paying attention to rantings in this blog), you will know that we are attempting to push/promote/market our language a little more/better. One of the ways in which this will [...]
