Posts Tagged ‘epo’

QA Hackathon

Introduction The QA Hackathon is a free of charge coding workshop for people involved in Quality Assurance, testing, packaging, CPAN, and other projects related to quality assurance. The workshop is not necessarily exclusive to Perl projects, however, many of the attendees will be planning to work on projects that have a direct benefit to the [...]

EPO Site Redesign

If you haven’t heard already allow me to share with you the fact that the Enlightened Perl Organisation website has had a redesign. The site had a previous design from circa July 2008 which was done at the time as a JFDI placeholder look while awaiting a new design, unfortunately that weekend effort lasted for [...]

EPO sponsors Perl QA

For the second Year running the Enlightened Perl Organisation is proud to be counted among the sponsors for the (Perl) Quality Assurance Hackathon. The membership have voted to sponsor the event with 1,000 Euros to help with the operating costs as seen appropriate by the organisers. The QA Hackathon is a free of charge coding [...]

MetaCPAN Logo Competition

The Enlightened Perl Organisation was approached recently by Florian Ragwitz (rafl) to sponsor a competition aimed at creating a logo for MetaCPAN. Rafl’s proposal (which can be viewed here), is to hold the competition so that the winner would make his artwork available in the first part to MetaCPAN to use while retaining moral copyright [...]

London Perl Workshop 2011

Reflection, part two In my first post on Friday I reflected on the fact that this year’s London Perl Workshop was the fourth event that I had organised, in this post I want to talk about this year after the event and some elements around it. If you build it… In preparing for this year’s [...]

London Perl Workshop 2011: Sponsors

This is the fourth year that I have dived head first into organising the London Perl Workshop (The UK’s Perl Workshop) and the first in which I am writing this type of post before the official launch of the site. Why is that i hear you call… It is because I love our sponsors.[1] A [...]

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 [...]

Common Market Policy*

Perl Foundation Homepage Enlightened Perl Organisation Homepage As I have mentioned here many times I am involved with the marketing and promotion of Perl. This started as a need to promote Perl in connection with my company, Shadowcat Systems Limited, and then a growing desire to make sure that the image and information about the [...]

Perl QA: Some final thoughts

It has been a week since the PERL QA finished and while I was there I wrote about the events of each day. I didn’t, however, do the final day as there were a number of events happening; people were leaving, people debated on what was achieved, people spoke about other events and future years, [...]