FW: YAPC 19100: Call for Participation (2)

[Hancock Jr, Denis C.]

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Denis C. Hancock , Jr.          Sr. Scientific Programmer/Analyst
213 Curtis Hall                       573-882-1722 (voice)
UMC-Agronomy                   573-884-7850 (fax)
Columbia MO 65211              HancockDC at missouri.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Lenzo [mailto:lenzo at cs.cmu.edu] 
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 1:33 PM
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Subject: YAPC 19100: Call for Participation (2)


***************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ******************

                      North American
               Yet Another Perl Conference  
                        YAPC 19100 

              http://www.yapc.org/America/

            Wednesday-Friday, June 21-23, 2000
                            at
                Carnegie Mellon University
                 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


     ** Abstract submission deadline:  April  3, 2000 **

Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC) is an inexpensive ($75) perl 
users and developers conference, with a mix of tutorials and 
technical talks.  The conference is set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 
and so is relatively accessible from both the East and the Midwest.

YAPC began as a grassroots users conference, from discussions 
among Perl Mongers, and has grown from there.  We would like
to invite you to join us for two days of Perl, people, and 
demonstrations, at a price that shouldn't hurt your wallet.  
There will be a limit of just under 500 people for the conference.

A number of members of the Perl community are contributing to this
event, including:

   Larry Wall, Abigail, Damian Conway, Mark-Jason Dominus, 
   Joseph Hall, purl, Randal Schwartz, ...

    ... and YOU!  See the CALL FOR PAPERS below!

Look to the main web page for more details --
                               http://www.yapc.org/America

** Dorm rooms **

A limited number of inexpensive dorm rooms are available at 
Carnegie Mellon, that will be given preferentially to students, 
but more generally on a first-come basis.  This is to further
reduce the cost for those with limited resources, especially 
students, who we are trying to encourage the most.  More 
information will become available when registration begins.

** Location **

YAPC is at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania once again this year, in the University 
Center.  We have the Rangos rooms, 1,2 and 3 once again,
as well as McConomy Auditorium,the Conan Room, and some
small rooms set aside.  This year there will be an email
garden.

** Registration **

Registration will open shortly after the abstract submission
deadline.  Please watch for the announcements on the web
page at http://www.yapc.org/America/.


  *********** CALL FOR PAPERS ***********

Potential presenters should submit a 200-300 word abstract to

        lenzo+abstract at cs.cmu.edu

in plain ASCII text or HTML by APRIL 3rd for consideration.  
We would like that your materials be available online, but
it is not required.  If you have materials to include in
the proceedings, or course notes, please let us know your
requirements the abstract.  If you have any special presentation
needs, please include them also.

Talks can be 20 minutes, 40 minutes, or 90 minutes long;
that's actually 20 + 2.5 minutes to change over, 40 + 5 minutes
to change, and 90 + 0 minutes to change over, so questions are
included in the these times.  Please specify the amount of time
you'd like for your talk.

Topics are unlimited, but some suggestions include:

   * Groupware, Agents, and Bots 
   * Perl for Speech and Language 
   * Text and Document Processing 
   * Machine Learning in Perl 
   * HTML, XML, and Markup Languages 
   * CGI and Web programming in Perl 
   * Internet Programming 
   * Database Interation and Access with Perl 
   * Scientific Computing (e.g. with PDL) 
   * Practical Perl Programming 
   * Module guts and usage on any particular Module. 
   * Tutorials of all stripes: Modules, Objects, CPAN 
   * Visionary or position papers on Perl, the past, 
              the present, and the future 
   * Anything cool :) 

Conference fees will be waived for presenters at yapc, so
another way to reduce your costs is to give a good talk
on something you're excited about.


  **** YAPC 100 **  http://www.yapc.org/America/ ********
***************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ******************

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