<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">A whole new side of PPW.<br><br>This year, we're trying to mix some things up with PPW and the talks<br>that you'll see. Don't worry, we'll still have the same traditional<br>talks (in fact, our call for papers will be opening in the next few<br>days). But also, we want to take PPW to the next level.<br><br>To reach that goal, we've been working with a few selected speakers<br>over the past months on something we like to call "Things that touch<br>Perl." For Perl developers, we hope this means that we're going to get<br>you excited about taking Perl home with you and trying to use it in<br>new ways. For developers new to Perl, we hope to show you both why<br>Perl is a great language to work with and why Perl is great at working<br>with other things.<br><br>We're also expanding our special course offerings at PPW this year.<br>Dan Klein will be returning with "From Zero to Perl", a beginner<br>course which made its debut at PPW last year with excellent reviews.<br>Also, Perl author Peter Scott will be providing a day-long course<br>titled "Maintaining Code While Staying Sane", a course targeted at<br>developers that just had somebody else's code dumped in their lap. We<br>also have a few other instructors that we are working with to<br>potentially provide day-long courses, and we hope to be announcing<br>those soon.<br><br>The website is open <a href="http://pghpw.org/">http://pghpw.org</a>. Please stop by.<br><br>Robert<br></body></html>