A note: There are a lot of "people" registered, with no info or anything. I wonder if these are spam attempts that didn't go anywhere?
:) -Mallory On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 08:30:20AM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: > A message from the YAPC::Europe organisers.... > > It is only one month left before YAPC::Europe 2011 "Modern Perl"! The > conference is on 15-17 August in Riga, Latvia. > > Yesterday we reached another record of 200 committed attendees. We > know that Perl community is much bigger and would like to see > everybody in Riga. We've got huge venue which can host all the active > subscribers of @pm.org European lists together in one room. People > from 40 countries and 60 monger groups are going to attend the > conference: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/stats/. > > > Our schedule is enormous and dense. Three days of four or five talk > tracks. Three hours of lightning talks. Track for beginners. Larry > Wall Monday morning, Damian Conway Tuesday morning, Jesse Vincent > Wednesday morning. Talks about Perl 5, 6, 5.14 and even 5.16. Talks on > web frameworks, DBIx et. al., NoSQL and clouds, and much much more: > > Monday: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/schedule/?day=2011-08-15 > Tuesday: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/schedule/?day=2011-08-16 > Wednesday: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/schedule/?day=2011-08-17 > > Not to mention the pre-conference meeting in the centre of city and > the attendees dinner in famous Riga's place. > > Three easy steps to become a committed attendee: > 1) Register: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/register > 2) Join the conference: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/register > 3) Buy a ticket: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/purchase (note that you > can save 80% by attending Wednesday only!) > > > What else you can do: > > * Submit a talk or a lightning one: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/newtalk > * Become a speaker at the Beginner track: > http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talk/3242 > * Become (or bring) a sponsor: > http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/sponsorship/index.html > * Attend teaching classes: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talks#151 > * Attend the Perl 6 hackathon: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talk/3388 > * Simply attend the conference and socialize. > > Hope to see you in Riga this August! > > Conference website: http://yapceurope.lv > Twitter channel: http://twitter.com/yapcrussia > Official hashtag: #ye2011 > Orgarnizer's e-mail address: m...@yapceurope.lv > > > [ Note from Leo: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/stats/ - London.pm doesn't quite > have tripple the number of the next biggest PM group yet - and really we > should > have quadruple! - so what are you waiting for :) ]