On 11 October 2010 11:29, Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looking at the presentations list from the latest LWPs I did not found > any from outside of the Perl world. Is there any tradition of > inviting interesting non Perlers to the conference?
The Italian Perl Workshop 2009 did invite Thomas Fuchs and Amy Hoy (from the Javascript and Usability worlds). And we did attempt to invite a well known Functional Programmer to YAPC::EU::2010 -- they couldn't make it due to other commitments, but we were really pleased to get Scott Chacon from github just sign up spontaneously. Inviting non-Perl speakers is a great idea and I'd like to see more of it. As with all community things, the best way to see it happen would be to either get involved in organizing said conferences and volunteer to source interesting speakers, and/or provide or find the sponsorship required to tempt them to speak ;-) osf'