There are going to be blogs about YAPCEU, already Leon has done a report on his Day One that is far nicer than what I would have written, I just wanted to do an interim report on what I have seen, been doing. I arrived early on Day One and was greeted by the usual [...]
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A Meeting of Many Camels
QA2011 Hackathon Day One Today marked the first day[1] of the Quality Assurance Hackathon 2011, an event not restricted to but mostly featuring work done in the Perl community. This event has been sponsored by Booking.com, Vienna and French Perl Mongers, YEF and the EPO and is being hosted by Booking.com at their office in [...]
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 [...]
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
The current state of play YAPC::EU::2010::Pisa is just a week or so away and I thought it would be time to talk about the send-a-newbie initiative once again. (If you are unfamiliar with send-a-newbie visit the website at send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org) As I spoke about previously this initiative was organised last year by Edmund von der Burg [...]
A Mat to put Beer on (as opposed to the Matt you put beer in)
My Ironman Status Having a certain swagger… By now I hope most of you have been following Gabor Szabo‘s and Renée Bäcker’s efforts to get Perl promoted at non-Perl conferences (see events on the TPF wiki here) and like me are in support. Their efforts are supported by The Perl Foundation, the YAPC Europe Foundation [...]
