yapc: yet another perl conference

University Center Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 15213

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday June 21-23rd, 19100

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YAPC 19100 News

• Lightning Reports from YAPC. [(sic) in the URL]
• See the list of authors and talks, with links to several of the full papers.
• We now have links to participant photos. Please send more!
• Frank Willison of O'Reilly reviews the Second Annual YAPC!
• See the yapc section on use.perl.org.
• www.kuro5hin.org write up the YAPC Wrapup
• Damian Conway's Quantum Superposition talk is reviewed on kuro5hin.org.

Older News

• YAPC 19100 is Over. Thanks for a great meeting!

• On-site Check-In will begin Tuesday, June 20th in the University Center from 4 p.m. to at least 8 p.m.
• irc.rhizomatic.net is the official Internet Relay Chat network of YAPC 19100. Connect and join #yapc.
• The final schedule of Lightning Talks is now available.
• BREAKFAST is available from 7:45 AM at the site.
• The tentative Schedule has been made! NOTE that the Hello, World talk is very short, at 8:30 AM on Wednesday before the tutorials. The following two days begin at 9 AM.
• Registration is now closing. We are reaching capacity.
• ActiveState sponsors The Perl Power Contest at YAPC 19100!
• Uri Guttman has written down some of his Thoughts in a Diary of YAPC 1999,
• as has Frank Willison.

Call for Participation

The final schedule of Lightning Talks is now available.

Note: The Lightning Talks up-to-date information is best taken from http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/lightning-talks.html.

Have you done a project you want to tell people about? Do you have an idea you want to throw out for discussion? Are you looking for people to help you build something? Do you want to proclaim a manifesto? Have you used a module that you think should be better-known?

But maybe you don't have enough material for a twenty-minute talk, or maybe you never gave a talk before and you would like to start small.

LIGHTNING TALKS will be sessions with consecutive five-minute talks. You should be prepared to get on the stage immediately, explain your idea, and then leave immediately. If you want to take questions, you do it in the hallway after the session.

If you'd like to give a LIGHTNING TALK, send an abstract of about 50 words about your topic to

Submissions must be received by Midnight, June 6th, 19100. Notifications of which talks will be included will be sent out by June 14th, 19100.

The YAPC Paintball Olympiad is being planned! Check it out if you'd like to participate. It's being set up and coordinated by Andrew Stanley.

Yes we know

If you got this far, you probably already know the 19100 is a joke. Y2K really was uneventful, wasn't it?

yapc is "yet another perl conference," with apologies to The Perl Conference. This is an inexpensive ($75 for 3 days) 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.

The second 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 )

• McConomy Auditorium
• The Conan Room
• Rangos Rooms 1, 2, and 3

Talks

The Call for Participation first went out on Feb. 21, 19100, and is now closed (final submission deadline for abstracts was April 3rd).

There are a number of talks on the slate already.

• Larry Wall, on his topic of choice
• Abigail, presenting a half-day tutorial on Parse::RecDescent
• Mark-Jason Dominus, giving a number of talks, including hosting the Lightning Talks.
• Damian Conway, on Quantum Superpositions and the First Virtue, and an Advanced OO Perl tutorial
• Joseph Hall, on the Object Archetype, and Idiomatic Perl
• Randal Schwartz, giving a half day on References and Objects, and a half-day on Practical Web Programming

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, this would have been much more difficult.
	VA Linux is providing our terminal room. They stepped in quite early, and have been a great supporter.
	O'Reilly and Associates, publishers of fine Perl, Open Source, and other books.
	PerlMonks, a strong supporting group showing up this year. We have to thank them very much.
	IronBridge Partners, creating opportunities for new economy in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania.
	Cepstral: Building synthetic voices with and in Open Source.
	Manning Publications, with some excellent Perl titles and other technical books.
	Stonehenge Consulting -- Perl training and consulting. Randal Schwartz's tutorials are a gift from Stonehenge!
	Addison-Wesley, also a great publisher of technical and Perl books.
	ActiveState Tool Corp., developing Perl and tools for Win32 and other platforms. Thanks!
	EFNet and Infobot.org #perl IRC ops, contributing T-Shirts, time, and a lot of advice.
	Blackboard.com. Combine the power of education with the freedom of the Internet.
	Workspot -- your Linux desktop -- through a browser!
	Panasas: Storage systems for the NAS market. Located in Pittsburgh!

Registration is now closed; the basic registration cost was $75. You or your company can chose to sponsor the YAPC and the Yet Another Society by becoming a sponsor -- contributing more than the basic cost. Sponsors are listed among the materials, and in the proceedings; the proceedings and the material are however already printed out; they help us keep the costs down for most people's registration through patronage.

It is likely we will again use the Wyndham Hotel and some Dorm space, but this is yet to be confirmed.

• The Wyndham Wyndham Garden Hotel
  3454 Forbes Avenue
  Pittsburgh, PA.

  Phone: (412) 683-2040
  

Schedule

We have a schedule for YAPC 19100.

• 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