It is that time of year again when the London Perl Workshop, the United Kingdom Perl Workshop, is just a few days away and all that my mind can focus on is the event and whether I can pull off a success once again. Well, I say ‘I’ in a rather immodest fashion. It is [...]
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Perl Quality Assurance Hackathon 2013
The Search for Sponsors It was my pleasure to announce last week that Ian Norton and I will be hosting the 2013 Perl Quality Assurance Hackathon in the North West of England. It is similarly my pleasure to relate that our very first sponsors are signed up. Each year the outgoing organising team donate any [...]
QA Hackathon 2013
Next year’s Quality Assurance Hackathon was originally intended to be held in the Roman town of Londinium on the banks of the River Thames in the south-eastern nub of the Kingdom of England. However, due to complications arising from the collision between a condom and a time machine(1) the event will now be held elsewhere [...]
Support a Research Project
The Perl Foundation is pleased to be working with and promoting Kevin Carillo’s research into newcomer experience and contributor behavior in Perl and other FOSS communities. You also can help by taking the time to fill out this survey. Kevin is a PhD candidate in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington. [...]
PRS2012 – Perl5-Perl6 Reunification Summit
Of Crockery and Hard Surfaces Between Friday 17th August and Sunday 19th August 2012 we held the first ever Perl Reunification Summit in the town of Perl just inside the border of Germany near to the borders of France and Luxembourg. The summit was an invite-only event and was the brainchild of Liz and Wendy [...]
EPO Sponsors YAPC Brasil
16 Aug 2012 at 15:06
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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
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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 [...]
Officially a Hardware Hacker
So that Robert Blackwell is an evil man, he’s my dealer, he hooked me up, got me to score, gave me the skinny and I am a user now. He gave me a gateway drug and suddenly I needed more…
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