The call for papers for the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is still open, but not for long. It's time to step up and submit your talk.
Don't you want to be part of the excitement? Don't you have something to share with the Perl community? Don't you want to make your mark on the historic PPW? Of course you do!
So why put if off? Submit your talk now. Just click:
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/newtalk
and fill out the form. It's that easy.
But don't delay! Claim your speaking spot while there's still time.
PPW 2008 is just a few months away. That means now is the time to submit a talk proposal. Haven't you been doing cool stuff with Perl? Of course you have! Then why not share the fun with the whole Perl community? Give a talk at PPW 2008!
Just go to pghpw.org and submit a talk proposal. It's that easy.
But don't delay. Get your proposal in soon -- or else you might miss out.
Seize the day! Own the fun! Submit a talk proposal for PPW 2008 now!
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is happy to announce "Mastering Perl," a special course, to be taught by returning PPW speaker, brian d foy.
In this tutorial, brian d foy will cover aspects of his latest book, Mastering Perl, which is practical advice for working programmers on creating professional, enterprise-quality Perl programs.
This tutorial joins "From Zero to Perl", taught by Dan Klein, and "Maintaining Code While Staying Sane", taught by Peter Scott as a third elective that PPW participants may opt to take in 2008 in addition to attending our many high-quality short talks.
More information on "Mastering Perl" may be found on the PPW website.
The University Center Quality Inn in Pittsburgh has let us know that they are going to have very limited available rooms during the weekend of PPW due to other events in the area.
However, we were able to secure a block of 30 rooms from them at a discounted rate. When registering, please be sure to ask for the "Pittsburgh Perl Workshop" event rate. For more information on the Quality Inn, please visit our location page.
We will also be working to get more rooms from other hotels in the area.
This year, we're trying to mix some things up with PPW and the talks that you'll see. Don't worry, we'll still have the same traditional talks (in fact, our call for papers will be opening in the next few days). But also, we want to take PPW to the next level.
To reach that goal, we've been working with a few selected speakers over the past months on something we like to call "Things that touch Perl." For Perl developers, we hope this means that we're going to get you excited about taking Perl home with you and trying to use it in new ways. For developers new to Perl, we hope to show you both why Perl is a great language to work with and why Perl is great at working with other things.
We're also expanding our special course offerings at PPW this year. Dan Klein will be returning with "From Zero to Perl", a beginner course which made its debut at PPW last year with excellent reviews. Also, Perl author Peter Scott will be providing a day-long course titled "Maintaining Code While Staying Sane", a course targeted at developers that just had somebody else's code dumped in their lap. We also have a few other instructors that we are working with to potentially provide day-long courses, and we hope to be announcing those soon.
As many of you have heard by now, Pittsburgh has been chosen as the 10th anniversary site for the Yet Another Perl Conference, North America (YAPC::NA) in 2009.
Currently, our plans are to proceed with PPW 08 this October. However, we do not plan to host a PPW in 2009. Instead, we encourage everybody to keep an eye on Columbus.pm. They have let us know that they are interested in hosting Perl Workshop possibly some time in the spring.
The tenative dates for PPW 08 have been set for October 11th and 12th, 2008. The event will be taking place at Carnegie Mellon University. We are currently in the final stages of reserving the rooms and locking in those dates.
We have been working with our partner, the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science to secure our venue and dates for the 2008 Pittsburgh Perl Workshop. Now, we are very close to having our reservations locked in.
Currently, we think that the event will happen in mid-October. We will announce the exact dates after our venue has confirmed our reservations.
It isn't too early to start thinking about sponsoring PPW '08. Prime sponsorship opportunities, such as room naming rights, usually go fast. Please contact sponsors@pghpw.org for more information.