[Dahut-pm] Dynamic Languages Conference

[Chris Prather]

Because I know at least one person on this list is (or recently was)
in Edinburgh, I thought this might be useful to people.

Also I know Mark puts on a smashing good conference because he has the
decency to come to mine and tell me how much better his are ... and
they're free.

-Chris
dahut:inChargeOf "Workshops and Conferences apparently"

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The Dynamic Languages Conference has officially opened its website to
registrations at http://www.dynamiclanguages.co.uk.

The Dynamic Languages Conference (26th-27th August) is a new, free of
charge, event held in Edinburgh to coincide with the parent festival,
the Turing Festival (http://www.turingfestival.com, 26th-28th August)
which is the European Festival of Digital Culture and Technology
(EFDCT), an official part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the
world’s greatest cultural and artistic event. Dynamic Languages
Conference has been sponsored by a number of organisations.

The conference is aimed at bringing the Open Source Dynamic Languages
together at one event where they can discuss in an open forum and
compare the various methods they employ to achieve similar goals. We
welcome people from any of the Dynamic Languages such as Perl, Ruby
(including the Rails community), Python, PhP, Javascript etc., our
goal is inclusion and sharing of experience and approach.

This year we are seeking speakers to talk on one of two subjects:

Dynamic Language and Application Development for the Internet which
will be the Friday track;

Dynamic Languages and System Administration which is the Saturday Track.

This event, Dynamic Languages, is free though you will need to
register to obtain a ticket to the whole of the event. The parent
festival (Turing Festival) which runs over the same period has also
launched its site and invites people to attend for a modest fee.

We are seeking speakers to attend the festival and they can also
register and submit talks through our website at
http://www.dynamiclanguages.co.uk. There will be guest speakers
talking at both the Dynamic Languages and Turing Festival. We are
pleased to announce that the well known Richard Stallman will be our
guest of honour and will speak at both the Dynamic Languages and the
Turing Festival event.

If you do not have an Act account already please use the new user link
to register for this event, Act only keeps your details for conference
registration with other Act events it is not used for any other
purpose or passed to a third party, you can then submit a talk or make
your conference schedule when we publish. The closing date for talks
is Friday 29th July and the Schedule will be released on Monday 8th
August.

The Dynamic Languages event will be held in the magnificent Surgeon’s
Hall on the Friday (26th August), and the Informatics Building on the
Saturday (27th August).

The Dynamic Languages event has been originally organised by members
of the Glasgow and NorthWestEngland Perl Mongers groups though we are
seeking help/support from any other open source language group, if you
are a member of such a group, or a leader then we would be happy to
hear from you and to work with you to invite your community to this
event. We are still seeking keynote speakers who may be able to gain
sponsorship to the event.

Please submit this to all mailing lists, user groups or message boards
that you know of or to any interested parties. If you have an idea for
a small event to be run in conjunction to this event, such as a
hackathon or BoF then please contact Mark or Marco who will be happy
to try and work with you to achieve this.

More information about The Turing Festival

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Edinburgh in August is where the cream of European technical and
digital talent will come together with the world’s largest Arts
Festival to thrash out the issues at the heart of our cultural and
economic future. The world is being remade in front of our eyes – this
is your chance to take part in that struggle.

The Turing Festival brings together a wealth of knowledge, talent and
ideas to capitalise on the opportunities posed by the internet and
look at what the future holds for the creative, digital and cultural
sectors.

This festival is for entrepreneurs, developers, managers, creative
thinkers, geeks, technologists and evangelists to discuss, debate,
learn and predict the future of the web. Running alongside the world
renowned Edinburgh International Festival and Guardian Media Festival,
the Turing Festival offers a weekend of interactive gatherings and
conferences with industry leading professionals who will challenge
your business ideas and leave you wanting more!

Organised by Interactive Scotland, Edinburgh City Council and
Edinburgh Science Triangle, the Turing Festival has been developed to
raise the international awareness of Scotland’s indigenous talent in
developing and designing software, hardware, mobile, computing,
gaming, music, film, TV and internet services, content applications or
platforms.