So YAPC::Europe in Riga was great fun. I've probably failed to include some important things, but
* Lots of excellent talks [most of which I think were videoed] * Lots of excellent socialising [most of which was not, fortunately] * Net-A-Porter donated $10,000 to the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund Thanks. They are recruiting, in London * Dijkmat donated $5,000 to it * Oslo Perl Mongers donated 1000 Euro to it (currently $1428.50) [They aren't recruiting. Well, except perhaps for something unpaid on the first Wednesday of the month - see http://oslo.pm.org/ ] You can read the all about it at http://www.perlfoundation.org/ The good news feed there is entirely about the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Except for one interruption about someone called Leo Lapworth getting some sort of non-orange dromedary [or something like that :-)] for his work in improving the design of many many Perl websites. Next year's YAPC::Europe is in Frankfurt, probably late August, probably at the University, but not yet confirmed as nothing is signed. Judging by this year's stats [http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/stats/], UK top on 58 attendees, Germany second on 45, next year might actually have somewhere non-UK top. Terrible :-( Big thanks to Andrew Shitov for organising an excellent conference. [He also got one of the non-orange dromedary things, as did Daisuke Maki] Nicholas Clark