From gaurav at ggvaidya.com  Tue Nov  9 09:19:12 2010
From: gaurav at ggvaidya.com (Gaurav Vaidya)
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:19:12 +0800
Subject: [singapore-pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Perl @ FOSDEM 2011 - Call for
	speakers
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Hello peeps,

In case anybody is heading out Belgiumwards or planning to attend  
FOSDEM next year!

cheers,
Gaurav

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com>
> Date: November 9, 2010 8:27:48 PM SST
> To: PM Groups <pm_groups at pm.org>
> Subject: [pm_groups] Perl @ FOSDEM 2011 - Call for speakers
>
> I'd appreciate if you forwarded this call to your PM group.
> ======
>
>
> FOSDEM is one of the biggest Free and Open Source event held annually
> in Brussels, Belgium. The expected number of visitors is around  
> 4-5000.
>
>     http://www.fosdem.org/2011/
>
> Last year there was a Perl booth and a few Perl related talks.
> This year we are going to have a devroom where we will be
> presenting a number of Perl related talks.
> FOSDEM will take place on the 5 - 6th February 2011.
> The Perl devroom will be on Sunday 6th February from 09:00 to 17:00..
>
> We're looking for speakers to submit talks for inclusion in the  
> program.
>
> In our conversations with the FOSDEM visitors last year we found
> that while many were using Perl or interested in Perl,
> almost none of them have ever attended a Perl Workshop or a YAPC.
> Hence this is an opportunity to show the latest developments in the
> Perl world to a wider audience.
>
> A number of topics that might be interesting:
>
> * Moose, the Object Oriented system of Perl
> * Dancer and Mojolicous, the new light-weight web frameworks
> * New features of Perl (5.10 and 5.12)
> * How to run a new version of Perl on an older system
> * Testing Perl code and using Perl for automated testing
> * Writing games in Perl
> * Using Perl modules without root access
> * Database access using Perl
> * Data mining with Perl
> * Porting legacy Perl to Modern Perl
> * Perl 6
>
> Presenting  a Perl based software such s a
> * Content Management System
> * Bug tracking software
> * ...
>
> Talks can be 15, 30 or 45 min long including (!) 2-3 minutes
> switching time between talks.
>
> Please submit your proposals to:
>
> events at lists.perlfoundation.org
>
> and include the following information:
>
> * Your name
> * The title of your talk (please be descriptive,
> as titles will be listed together with ~250 talks
> from other projects)
> * A short abstract of one or two paragraphs
> * A short biography introducing yourself
> * Links to related websites/blogs etc.
>
> The deadline for submissions is 20th December 2010.
> The proposals will be considered by committee.
> If your proposal has been accepted, you will be
> informed by email by 27 December 2010.
>
> Coordination of the Perl presence at FOSDEM is done
> on the TPF wiki page:
> https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?events_2011_fosdem
>
>
> regards
>   Gabor
>   http://perl-ecosystem.org/
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