FW: YAPC 19100: Call for Participation (fwd)

[Hancock Jr, Denis C.]

FYI -- In years past, the "big names" like Randal Schwartz and Larry Wall
have gone to this conference.  It is also considerably cheaper than the
O'Reilly conference, since it is generally held at Universities.

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-----Original Message-----
From: benh [mailto:benh at blues.jpj.net] 
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 3:18 PM
To: perl-hackers at stlouis.pm.org
Subject: YAPC 19100: Call for Participation (fwd)



For your reading (and participating) pleasure...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:03:52 -0500
From: Kevin Lenzo <lenzo at cs.cmu.edu>
To: groups at lists.panix.com, perl-mongers-announce at pm.org
Cc: lenzo+yapc at cs.cmu.edu
Subject: YAPC 19100: Call for Participation

Hi Mongers -- 

We're gearing up for it again.  YAPC::America::North 19100 is in the
works,
and interest has been mounting in other YAPCs: Europe and Australia,
with
some rumour of Asia also.  Here is the Call for Participation for the 
North American YAPC this year; it'll be 3 days long this time, but still
grassroots.  We'll have to cut off registration at about 500 people this
time, which is almost double last year's number.  I'd like to see
Mongers
get in early.  The registration page should be up in a few weeks.

Yours,

kevin

***************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ******************

                      North American
               Yet Another Perl Conference  
                        YAPC 19100 

              http://www.yapc.org/America/

            Wednesday-Friday, June 21-23, 2000
                            at
                Carnegie Mellon University
                 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


     ** Abstract submission deadline:  April  3, 2000 **

Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC) is an inexpensive ($75) perl 
users and developers conference, with a mix of tutorials and 
technical talks.  The conference is set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 
and so is relatively accessible from both the East and the Midwest.

YAPC began as a grassroots users conference, from discussions 
among Perl Mongers, and has grown from there.  We would like
to invite you to join us for two days of Perl, people, and 
demonstrations, at a price that shouldn't hurt your wallet.  
There will be a limit of just under 500 people for the conference.

A number of members of the Perl community are contributing to this
event, including:

   Larry Wall, Abigail, Damian Conway, Mark-Jason Dominus, 
   Joseph Hall, purl, Randal Schwartz, ...

    ... and YOU!  See the CALL FOR PAPERS below!

Look to the main web page for more details --
                                    http://www.yapc.org/America

** Dorm rooms **

A limited number of inexpensive dorm rooms are available at 
Carnegie Mellon, that will be given preferentially to students, 
but more generally on a first-come basis.  This is to further
reduce the cost for those with limited resources, especially 
students, who we are trying to encourage the most.  More 
information will become available when registration begins.

  *********** CALL FOR PAPERS ***********

Potential presenters should submit a 200-300 word abstract to

        lenzo+abstract at cs.cmu.edu

in plain ASCII text or HTML by April 3rd for consideration.  
We would like that your materials be available online, but
it is not required.  If you have materials to include in
the proceedings, or course notes, please let us know your
requirements the abstract.  If you have any special presentation
needs, please include them also.

Topics are unlimited, but some suggestions include:

   * Groupware, Agents, and Bots 
   * Perl for Speech and Language 
   * Text and Document Processing 
   * Machine Learning in Perl 
   * HTML, XML, and Markup Languages 
   * CGI and Web programming in Perl 
   * Internet Programming 
   * Database Interation and Access with Perl 
   * Scientific Computing (e.g. with PDL) 
   * Practical Perl Programming 
   * Module guts and usage on any particular Module. 
   * Tutorials of all stripes: Modules, Objects, CPAN 
   * Visionary or position papers on Perl, the past, 
              the present, and the future 
   * Anything cool :) 

Conference fees will be waived for presenters at yapc, so
another way to reduce your costs is to give a good talk
on something you're excited about.


  **** YAPC 100 **  http://www.yapc.org/America/ ********
***************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ******************

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