On 11/22/2012 07:19 AM, Abigail wrote:
I do remember Kevin giving us a tour of CMU, which included the location
of the box that was running purl. This was during one of the first YAPCs,
so indeed no later than 19100.
A community thing that hasn't been mentioned yet: conference auctions.
(Isn't London.pm still "suffering" from the outcome of an auction in 2001?)
i can testify to the yap::na auctions for a few years. also the rise of
yapc social events. that is a major win for the perl community. at the
recent yapc in madison, some complimented yapc for the wide range of
social events. other confs they said were just talks and be on your own.
yapc is a very diff conference with the low fee, volunteer run, social
events, etc. i know you are covering yapc but some emphasis on why it is
so great would be a good thing.
some memories:
the first yapc in pitt/cmu run by lenzo was in the red. during the
banquet we passed around a (real) hat). we collected over $2k to cover
the shortage.
a young 13 yo kid came to that first yapc. told a story of loading linux
onto his mother's computer and she got pissed! this was cp5/comport5 of
the infamous myspace worm. he is still hacking perl.
uri
