The Perl Conference 2017 (f.k.a. YAPC-NA)

[James E Keenan]

Perl friends,

The Perl Conference 2017 -- the conference formerly known as Yet Another 
Perl Conference::North America (YAPC::NA) -- is little more than two 
months away.

The main conference days will be Mon-Wed, June 19-20.  Pre-conference 
activities begin on Sun June 18 and post-conference activities take 
place through Sat June 23.

The conference will be held in the Washington DC metropolitan area -- 
specifically, at US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Alexandria, VA.

There hasn't been as much promotion for this year's event as there has 
been in previous years, so I'm taking the liberty of kicking off 
discussion on this list, the long-time unofficial attendees' mailing list.

The main conference web page is here:
http://www.perlconference.us/tpc-2017-dc/

The conference wiki is here:
https://github.com/dcbpw/tpc-2017-dc/wiki


Could I ask the following:

* All readers:

** Start talking this conference up in your local Perlmonger and other 
tech user groups.  Let your friends and colleagues know about YAPC, and 
have them sign up for this mailing list at:
http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/yapc

** Start making your hotel and travel plans now.

* Conference organizers:

** Could you start promoting, e.g., on blogs.perl.org, 
ironman.enlightenedperl.org, Perl Weekly, etc.

** Introduce yourselves!  (I myself can name only one of the organizers.)

** Could you arrange for a redirect link to be set up so that 
http://www.yapcna.org/yn2017 redirects to the main conference web page.

** Acceptances for presentations have started to be sent out, but we 
still need a schedule.

I'm looking forward to this conference not only because I've attended 
YAPC::NA steadily, but because I've also attended most editions of the 
DC/Baltimore Perl Workshop -- and I suspect that past organizers of that 
workshop will be big contributors to this year's TPC.  I look forward to 
hanging out with many friends from both events.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan