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 [...]
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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 [...]
Hail the Overlord
Each year the EPO (http://www.enlightenedperl.org) must elect a new director, or have an existing director re-elected (the EPO’s year runs from 6th March). This year Marcus Ramberg decided to resign and not seek re-election due to many other commitments. In accordance with the organisations’ rules we held an election process and it is my pleasure [...]
Evolution of the Velociraptor
Synopsis There is a bit of confusion circling the wires as to where and when the need to refer to Perl 5 as a “Raptor” or more correctly a “Velociraptor” originated. Also people wish to know: Why name it? Why use this? Whose idea was this? This article will attempt to relieve you from the [...]
EPO and the QA Hackathon
For those of you in the know, which would be anyone who is in the perl-qa channel on irc.perl.org or have looked at the wiki (http://2011.qa-hackathon.org/qa2011/wiki) on the QA Hackathon website (http://2011.qa-hackathon.org), or maybe heard on Twitter/Facebook/-insert social media type- the QA organisers, and especially the Herculean efforts of Book and Erica have now secured [...]
I need your help!
I have an idea for some marketing/promotion, and thanks to the EPO (Enlightened Perl Organisation) I have some money to complete this idea with. But I need your help, yes you, the Perl community. What is the idea, what do you want from us? Quite simply I am going to be preparing some posters/flyers (A5 [...]
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 [...]
NWE.pm This year’s Hack Day
07 Sep 2010 at 10:52
mdk
Enlightened Perl, Ironman, North West England Perl Mongers, Perl, Shadowcat
It’s that time of year, That’s something’s in the air, Like a load of geeks, With some very curly hair, Write another load Of code to give away, That celebrate-ate-ates, All the fun they had today… The North West England Perl Mongers (http://www.northwestengland.pm.org) will be having another hackday this year in the jolly month of [...]
