***************** 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. *********** CALL FOR PAPERS *********** Potential presenters should submit a 200-300 word abstract to lenzo+abstract@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. 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 ******************