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

[Brock Wilcox]

Thank you Jim!

Hello all! I'm one of the organizers... I'm not sure if any others are on
this list. Other key members to say hi to:

* David Oswald -- TPF Conferences Chair
* Dan Wright -- TPF Treasurer and TPC financial advisor
* Dawn Wallis -- Baltimore.pm organizer, working on tutorials and lots of
things
* Joshua Turcotte -- DC.pm organizer, main POC for the venue and lots of
things
* Stephen Belcher -- Baltimore.pm member, SOC point of contact and lots of
things
* Mike Burns -- DC.pm member, conference treasurer
* Brock Wilcox (me!) -- DC.pm organizer, talk/schedule/website wrangler and
lots of things
* ... bunch of other people have helped get us set up and with specific
tasks

We've sent out notices to almost all accepted speakers, and have gotten
about half of them to confirm. This weekend I'll post a list of confirmed
talks, and from there we'll work on the schedule layout. Generally:

Sunday 6/18 - Pre-Conference Tutorials
Monday 6/19 - Conference Day 1
Tuesday 6/20 - Conference Day 2
Wednesday 6/21 - Conference Day 3
Thursday 6/22 - Post-Conference Tutorials 1
Friday 6/23 - Post-Conference Tutorials 2

Via the website (http://www.perlconference.us) you will see that this year
eventbrite is our registration service, which seems to be working pretty
well. The tutorials are already listed there, but they too will soon have a
nice pretty home on the website.

Jim -- I'll see if I can get that redirect, good idea. I did add a note to
http://dcbpw.org/ :)

--Brock






On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:49 AM, James E Keenan via yapc <yapc at pm.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
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