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Betreff: 	[Duesseldorf-pm] The Perl Conference in Amsterdam 2017 - Info 
and first/last Call for Papers
Datum: 	Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:49:07 +0200
Von: 	Wendy G.A. van Dijk <nl.pm at wendy.org>
An: 	duesseldorf-pm at pm.org



Dear Perl Mongers,

We are excited to invite you to The Perl Conference in Amsterdam
(formerly and by many still called YAPC::Europe), organised by our
team of Perl Mongers from Amsterdam and elsewhere in The Netherlands,
on 9-11 August 2017.  We are working hard to add more days before and
after these dates, and will tell you about it in later
mails.   Please visit the website (
http://theperlconference.amsterdam/ ) and register for the conference
if you haven't done so already (
http://theperlconference.amsterdam/how-to-register.html ).

This seems to be the first big email about this conference, and we
apologize for the omission.  Nevertheless, the word has been spread
via other media, and we already have 223 registered participants for
the conference, coming from over 30 countries (see
http://theperlconference.amsterdam/stats ).  We hope and look forward
to welcome at least 300 people.

We have received many talk submissions and already have accepted more
than 60 talks for the conference (see
http://theperlconference.amsterdam/talks  ) and several awesome
keynote speakers.  We have enough talks to fill three tracks, and we
are busy filling a fourth track.  For that, we hope you will submit a
talk, and please do so after reading this page:
http://theperlconference.amsterdam/call-for-papers.html
The latest deadline to submit a talk is Saturday 8 July at 23:59:59
(CEST/Amsterdam Time), so you still have plenty of time to submit a talk.

We have an excellent venue, which is affordable, big,
wheelchair-accessible.  It has its own bar (with some excellent
beers) and restaurant.  Catering has been taken care of, there will
be food for meat-eaters, vegetarians, vegans, and special dietary
requirements can be catered for too.  There will also be coffee and
tea breaks, and of course a conference dinner.

As you would expect from me personally, I will fill a booth with a
lot of nice Perl-items (books, including books about Perl 6, stuffed
toys, wine, stickers, buttons, and more) and it will be decorated
with the largest library of Perl books, the Perl camel, and more.  We
do have several sponsors who will have a booth as well.  Speaking of
sponsors, we would welcome more sponsors.  If your company, and/or
you personally, wants to sponsor The Perl Conference in Amsterdam,
please visit http://theperlconference.amsterdam/sponsoring.html  and
read about several sponsoring opportunities.

With regards to the name of the conference: YAPC (the abbreviation
means Yet Another Perl Conference) has been a household name for the
big European, American, Asian and other conferences about
Perl.  O'Reilly ( https://www.oreilly.com/ ) organised the very first
"The Perl Conference" in August 1997 in San Jose, California, and the
second one in August 1998, again in San Jose.  In 1999, they renamed
the conference to OSCON (for Open Source Conference), because
O'Reilly wanted to cover all open source.  The Perl-community
organised the first YAPC:NA (Yet Another Perl Conference, North
America) in 1999 in Pittsburgh.  The first YAPC::Europe was in London
in 2000.  I co-organised the second YAPC::Europe, in 2001, in
Amsterdam.  OK, now back to the name: lots of Perl-people are
accustomed to the name YAPC.  But to people who are not so used to
the lovely acronyms we Perl-people invent, the name :"The Perl
Conference" is completely self-explanatory.  Ask your boss "Can I
please go to The Perl Conference" and your boss will understand what
you mean.  O'Reilly graciously allowed the organisers of the American
and European conferences about Perl to use the name "The Perl
Conference", as long as we make clear that O'Reilly is not organising
the conference.  Well, they are not, and we thank them for allowing
us to use the name "The Perl Conference in Amsterdam" for the
European installment of the conference.

Thank you for your attention, and I am hoping to meet you in
Amsterdam in August.

Kind regards,

Wendy van Dijk
co-organiser The Perl Conference in Amsterdam 2017 aka YAPC::Europe::2017
http://theperlconference.amsterdam

PS If you receive this message more than once, I do apologize.  I
have been sending this to several mailing lists.
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