yapc: yet another perl conference

University Center Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 15213

Thursday and Friday June 24-25th, 1999

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schedule | pittsburgh.pm.org | perl mongers | cmu.edu

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Pictures from YAPC 1999 from many people!

from

• merlyn
• freeside
• obvious
• tkil
• |siv|
• lej

yapc is "yet another perl conference," with apologies to The Perl Conference. This is an inexpensive conference with its roots in the Perl Mongers perl users groups.

While The Perl Conference plays an important role in the Perl community, there are some things that fall through the cracks at such a large, relatively corporate conference. Attendance fees of $1,000 or more are prohibitive, especially to students (though there are deep student discounts); furthermore, the conference is on the West Coast, incurring travel expenses for those in the east, on top of the conference expense. Finally, yapc is driven from the bottom up, organized by and for perl users -- a grassroots conference.

It can also be thought of as a smaller, regional version of TPC in the Eastern USA, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University. While CMU is hosting it this year, we hope to move it around the East and have it hosted by various Perl Monger groups.

We've had great feedback so far, and the list of attendees is growing -- Larry Wall has agreed to give our opening plenary talk, and Randal Schwartz, Mark-Jason Dominus, Joseph Hall, Chris Nandor and other luminaries far too numerous to enumerate will be attending, and likely speaking. You might want to take a look at our current schedule.

The first yapc will be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. CMU has been most gracious about all arrangements; an academic environment like this is one of the bastions of free speech, the humanities, and technical innovation that make it possible for us to have open discussions.

University Center, Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

see the campus map ( GIF JPEG PDF )

• Rangos Rooms 1, 2, and 3, June 24-25
• Dowd room, June 24-25
• Wright Room, June 24th only

Talks

A list of talks with abstracts is available, featuring an opening by Larry Wall, and including presentations by

We're looking for some help in making this the best possible cheap conference. If you or your company want to help out, contact Kevin Lenzo. Volunteering, presenting, and just plain attending are also encouraged. Thanks!

We have the following sponsors:

	Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Without the CMU SCS, none of this would have been possible.
	Addison-Wesley Longman, source of several excellent Perl titles, technical, and scholarly books. They stepped in quite early.
	O'Reilly and Associates, font of Perl wisdom.
	Manning Publications, a publishing house with some very interesting forthcoming perl titles as well as a fine set of programming and computer science books.
	The Perl Journal, the finest quarterly Perl publication on the planet.
	ActiveState Tool Corp., a major contributor to All Things Perl
	Told You So Consulting has donated service and server for the registration, among other things.

Registration is at:

        http://www.toldyouso.com/~yapc/

• Registration Deadline May 15th, 1999.
• Registration Fee: $60, unless you are a CMU Student (but you still must register)

If you want to send a check, make it to YAPC 99/ CMU SCS and sent to

The Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science has made funds available so that CMU Students registration will be free; however, there will be no free lunch -- just free coffee, snacks, and materials for CMU students if you pre-register and list CMU as your affiliation, and note your student status. Your email address must be a valid CMU email address.

• We have a conference rate at the
  
  Wyndham Garden Hotel
  3454 Forbes Avenue
  Pittsburgh, PA.

  Phone: (412) 683-2040
  

  Give them a call to reserve a room and ask for the CMU Conference rate for yapc 99. You can begin calling them as of Tuesday, March 9th. (Note: there are two Wyndham hotels; the one you want is on Forbes, NOT near the airport :)

• We also have a limited number of dorm rooms. We especially encourage students to take advantage of our dorm rooms that are in blocks of 5 beds. Contact Kevin Lenzo if you would like to try to get a dorm suite of 5 or a bed or two. We can't guarantee that everyone can get in, because there will be only 73 beds.

Schedule

The tentative schedule outline is here; however, you may actually be looking for the talks.

• Matt Siegler has given the sweat of his brow to make conference maps!
  • GIF: campusmap.gif
  • JPEG: campusmap.jpg
  • PDF: campusmap.pdf

• In Pittsburgh, one of our local weekly entertainment and news magazines. It covers night life and general interest about Pittsburgh.
• PubNetwork Pittsburgh Pub reviews, with the closest cash points to each one.
• The State of PA Visitors Bureaus.
• Airport
  • The Airport Flyer (28X) bus from the Airport goes directly to CMU from the airport and costs $1.90.
  • A cab from the airport to CMU is at least US$40.
    • Checker Cab: (412) 381-5600
    • Yellow Cab: (412) 665-8100
• Driving
  • One set of Directions to CMU.
  • A Map of CMU.
  • CMU School of Computer Science directions page.

• From the Amtrak and Greyhound stations

We're hoping some folks will be interested in putting up or distributing some fliers for the conference in their local workplaces and gathering spaces.

• lil_y.jpg, a small JPEG of the distinctive YAPC circle-Y (2K).
• lil_yapc.jpg, a JPEG of "yapc 99" (6K)
• yaya.jpg, a small black-and-white JPEG (48K).
• bwad.ps, a black-and-white PostScript ad. (1.4M)