From antoniom at bc.edu Tue Mar 3 00:42:04 2015 From: antoniom at bc.edu (Margaret-Mary Antonio) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 04:42:04 -0400 Subject: Splitting room YAPC 2015 Message-ID: I'm looking for someone to split a room with Friday night (6/07) through the following Thursday or Friday. It's $75/night if two people split. If it's possible to get two beds to a room, I'd be willing to split between 3 or 4 people. Also, I can't confirm I will be attending until mid-April. Let me know! -Margaret antoniom at bc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gabor at szabgab.com Fri Mar 27 13:34:11 2015 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 23:34:11 +0300 Subject: Little America - Motel Courtside Queen Room Message-ID: Hi, now that the Master classes are listed http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/masters.html it was time for me to look for a place to stay during YAPC::NA. The link from http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/location.html that leads to the hotel reservation indicates rooms starting at $169 but if I remove the special code for the perl conference it also offers a room for $108. (Or if I use http://booking.com/ ) It is a much better price and as far as I can tell the only difference is that this one does not include a hair dryer. Am I missing some other differences that would explain the price difference and that would make this room much less attractive than the ones in the tower? regards Gabor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From todd at rinaldo.us Fri Mar 27 20:30:17 2015 From: todd at rinaldo.us (Todd Rinaldo) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 03:30:17 +0000 Subject: Little America - Motel Courtside Queen Room In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Friday, March 27, 2015, Gabor Szabo via yapc wrote: > Hi, > > now that the Master classes are listed http://www.yapcna.org/ > yn2015/masters.html > it was time for me to look for a place to stay during YAPC::NA. > > The link from http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/location.html that leads to > the hotel reservation indicates rooms starting at $169 but if I remove the > special code for the perl conference it also offers a room for $108. (Or > if I use http://booking.com/ ) > It is a much better price and as far as I can tell the only difference is > that this one does not include a hair dryer. > > Am I missing some other differences that would explain the price > difference and that would make this room much less attractive than the ones > in the tower? > You're just not putting a high enough price on good hair! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dan at dwright.org Sat Mar 28 07:59:24 2015 From: dan at dwright.org (Daniel Wright) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 10:59:24 -0400 Subject: Little America - Motel Courtside Queen Room In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > On Mar 27, 2015, at 4:34 PM, Gabor Szabo via yapc wrote: > > Am I missing some other differences that would explain the price difference and that would make this room much less attractive than the ones in the tower? Yes. I believe the rooms you are looking at for that rate are the ?courtside? rooms. These are motel-quality rooms. They are much smaller than the tower rooms and have exterior entry/exit. If anybody want a courtside room, I have a very limited quantity of them available at $99/night. The hotel will not allow us to advertise them on their registration site because there is a huge contrast in quality compared to the tower and garden rooms. But, if budget is the most important factor for you, please contact me directly for details. -Dan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Mar 30 23:39:42 2015 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:39:42 +0300 Subject: YAPC::NA Schedule is available Message-ID: Hi, I am sure there is going to be an official announcement later on, @genehack tweeted the link to the @perlweekly so I guess I can pass it on. In case you'd like to take a look at it and start to plan what you attend, you can see the schedule here: http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/schedule It also includes the Master Classes that are also listed here: http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/masters.html The Hackathons are not listed in the schedule, but they also have their separate page: http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/hackathons.html regards Gabor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From genehack at genehack.org Mon Mar 30 23:43:04 2015 From: genehack at genehack.org (John SJ Anderson) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 02:43:04 -0400 Subject: YAPC::NA Schedule is available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: @yapcna tweeted about it too 8^D https://twitter.com/YAPCNA/status/582631912625319936 On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Gabor Szabo via yapc wrote: > Hi, > > I am sure there is going to be an official announcement later on, > @genehack tweeted the > link to the @perlweekly so I guess I can pass it on. > > In case you'd like to take a look at it and start to plan what you attend, > you can see the schedule here: > > http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/schedule > > It also includes the Master Classes that are also listed here: > http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/masters.html > > The Hackathons are not listed in the schedule, but they also have their > separate page: > http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/hackathons.html > > regards > Gabor > > > > _______________________________________________ > yapc mailing list > yapc at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/yapc > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:43 AM, John SJ Anderson wrote: > @yapcna tweeted about it too 8^D > > https://twitter.com/YAPCNA/status/582631912625319936 > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Gabor Szabo via yapc wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am sure there is going to be an official announcement later on, >> @genehack tweeted the >> link to the @perlweekly so I guess I can pass it on. >> >> In case you'd like to take a look at it and start to plan what you >> attend, you can see the schedule here: >> >> http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/schedule >> >> It also includes the Master Classes that are also listed here: >> http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/masters.html >> >> The Hackathons are not listed in the schedule, but they also have their >> separate page: >> http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/hackathons.html >> >> regards >> Gabor >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From faelin.landy at gmail.com Tue Mar 31 10:27:59 2015 From: faelin.landy at gmail.com (Faelin McCaley Landy) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:27:59 -0400 Subject: YAPC::NA Schedule is available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Is it just me, or is the schedule not letting users star the talks they'll be attending? I'm on MacBook Pro (2014) with Mac OS 10.9.5, using Chrome v41. And on a second check, no functionality on Firefox, either. Am I just crazy? I could have sworn that, last year, users could star just the talks that they want to attend, to make it easier to keep track. On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:43 AM, John SJ Anderson via yapc wrote: > @yapcna tweeted about it too 8^D > > https://twitter.com/YAPCNA/status/582631912625319936 > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Gabor Szabo via yapc wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am sure there is going to be an official announcement later on, >> @genehack tweeted the >> link to the @perlweekly so I guess I can pass it on. >> >> In case you'd like to take a look at it and start to plan what you >> attend, you can see the schedule here: >> >> http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/schedule >> >> It also includes the Master Classes that are also listed here: >> http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/masters.html >> >> The Hackathons are not listed in the schedule, but they also have their >> separate page: >> http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/hackathons.html >> >> regards >> Gabor >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> yapc mailing list >> yapc at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/yapc >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > yapc mailing list > yapc at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/yapc > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From toddr at cpanel.net Tue Mar 31 10:51:04 2015 From: toddr at cpanel.net (Todd Rinaldo) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:51:04 -0500 Subject: YAPC::NA Schedule is available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: That page was bootstrapped and it still needs some additional support for small format devices. It?s possible the star was broken at that time. I?ll look at it later today. > On Mar 31, 2015, at 12:27 PM, Faelin McCaley Landy via yapc wrote: > > Is it just me, or is the schedule not letting users star the talks they'll be attending? I'm on MacBook Pro (2014) with Mac OS 10.9.5, using Chrome v41. And on a second check, no functionality on Firefox, either. Am I just crazy? I could have sworn that, last year, users could star just the talks that they want to attend, to make it easier to keep track. > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:43 AM, John SJ Anderson via yapc > wrote: > @yapcna tweeted about it too 8^D > > https://twitter.com/YAPCNA/status/582631912625319936 > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Gabor Szabo via yapc > wrote: > Hi, > > I am sure there is going to be an official announcement later on, @genehack tweeted the > link to the @perlweekly so I guess I can pass it on. > > In case you'd like to take a look at it and start to plan what you attend, you can see the schedule here: > > http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/schedule > > It also includes the Master Classes that are also listed here: > http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/masters.html > > The Hackathons are not listed in the schedule, but they also have their separate page: > http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/hackathons.html > > regards > Gabor > > > > _______________________________________________ > yapc mailing list > yapc at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/yapc > > > > _______________________________________________ > yapc mailing list > yapc at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/yapc > > > _______________________________________________ > yapc mailing list > yapc at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/yapc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michaelm at umich.edu Tue Mar 31 19:28:58 2015 From: michaelm at umich.edu (Michael McClennen) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 21:28:58 -0500 Subject: YAPC::NA Schedule is available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Given the recent announcement that Perl 6 will be released by the end of the year, I am very surprised that the schedule includes only 3 talks listed under the Perl6 category. (Plus, presumably, the Q&A with Larry on Tuesday.) I understand that the organizers have to work with the proposals that people send in, but is there something we as a community can do to improve this situation? The thing I most want to get from YAPC this year is more information about Perl 6. -- Michael McClennen On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Gabor Szabo via yapc wrote: Hi, I am sure there is going to be an official announcement later on, @genehack tweeted the link to the @perlweekly so I guess I can pass it on. In case you'd like to take a look at it and start to plan what you attend, you can see the schedule here: http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/schedule It also includes the Master Classes that are also listed here: http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/masters.html The Hackathons are not listed in the schedule, but they also have their separate page: http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/hackathons.html regards Gabor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From darren at darrenduncan.net Tue Mar 31 19:59:25 2015 From: darren at darrenduncan.net (Darren Duncan) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 19:59:25 -0700 Subject: YAPC::NA Schedule is available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <551B5F0D.1080709@darrenduncan.net> On 2015-03-31 7:28 PM, Michael McClennen via yapc wrote: > Given the recent announcement that Perl 6 will be released by the end of the > year, I am very surprised that the schedule includes only 3 talks listed under > the Perl6 category. (Plus, presumably, the Q&A with Larry on Tuesday.) > > I understand that the organizers have to work with the proposals that people > send in, but is there something we as a community can do to improve this > situation? The thing I most want to get from YAPC this year is more information > about Perl 6. Personally, I'm not bothered by this. Rather, I think the 2016 YAPC will or should be the big year for lots of Perl 6 talks, because at that point it should be officially in production. People can take what they learn next year and treat it like they do Perl 5 talks now, something they can apply immediately in production work rather than something that they can do in production "later". I like Perl 6 a lot, but really when it comes down to attracting a lot of people to a talk, they're going to prefer ones they can apply right away in practice, rather than just being an interest talk. So next year we can see the same kinds of talks we do now for Perl 5, but they happen to be in Perl 6 instead, more task focused or otherwise focused on some aspect other than "this is Perl 6". -- Darren Duncan From msouth at gmail.com Tue Mar 31 20:37:26 2015 From: msouth at gmail.com (Mike South) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:37:26 -0500 Subject: YAPC::NA Schedule is available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Michael McClennen via yapc wrote: > Given the recent announcement that Perl 6 will be released by the end of > the year, I am very surprised that the schedule includes only 3 talks > listed under the Perl6 category. (Plus, presumably, the Q&A with Larry on > Tuesday.) > The announcement at FOSDEM 2015 if I understand correctly. That was Jan 31-Feb 1 (source https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/ ). The dealine for proposals for YAPC::NA was Jan 15. (Source http://blog.yapcna.org/2014/12/15/yapcna2015-slc-call-for-papers-is-open/ ) To address this problem, speakers would need to have predicted the content of Larry's talk fifteen days before the deadline for YAPC::NA. Therefore, after some research into the timing you should not be "very surprised" about this, but rather "somewhat dismayed that the timing worked out as it did". > > I understand that the organizers have to work with the proposals that > people send in, but is there something we as a community can do to improve > this situation? The thing I most want to get from YAPC this year is more > information about Perl 6. > One thing you can do personally is attend the Perl 6-centric hackathon listed at this previously-posted url: http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/hackathons.html (there is registration link there). A meaty bof session might be another way of addressing what it likely to be a significant thirst for information on this topic. "Meaty Bof Session" is also a pretty good name for a band. In order for a meaty bof session to be successful, it probably needs to be led by someone with real knowledge of the topic. Perhaps someone on this list will volunteer or suggest a leader that could be politely petitioned to do that. My company recently used a tool called "pigeonhole live" (it's a pay thing, but someone could probably write a replacement in time in perl :) ) to let people propose and then vote on a list of questions to address during a panel discussion (in real time as the panel was being conducted). Such technology might be useful here. A Perl 6 BoF that took the form of a Q and A with a panel might be just the ticket. My guess is that there will be a lot of demand for this kind of thing given the recent announcement, but that you would need a heavyweight (or a panel thereof) behind it to make it useful. mike > > -- Michael McClennen > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karen at martian.org Tue Mar 31 21:07:39 2015 From: karen at martian.org (Karen Pauley) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 13:07:39 +0900 Subject: YAPC::NA Schedule is available In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 1 April 2015 at 12:37, Mike South via yapc wrote: > The announcement at FOSDEM 2015 if I understand correctly. That was Jan > 31-Feb 1 (source https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/ ). > > The dealine for proposals for YAPC::NA was Jan 15. (Source > http://blog.yapcna.org/2014/12/15/yapcna2015-slc-call-for-papers-is-open/ ) > > To address this problem, speakers would need to have predicted the content > of Larry's talk fifteen days before the deadline for YAPC::NA. The deadline for YAPC proposals was extended to the 1st March. The plans for Perl 6 would have been known by the core team before Larry's announcement at FOSDEM so I'm not sure those dates had an impact on the talks proposals that were received. > One thing you can do personally is attend the Perl 6-centric hackathon > listed at this previously-posted url: > http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/hackathons.html (there is registration link > there). Yes, there will be a Perl 6 Hackathon on the Thursday. Larry will be there along a number of key developers. [snip] > A Perl 6 BoF that took the form of a Q and A with a panel might be just the > ticket. There is going to be a Q&A session with Larry Wall on the Tuesday afternoon. Do you think that there should be a Perl 6 BOF in addition to this? If yes, I can see about having it arranged. All the best, Karen