Before this blows up, can i just say that Leo is a good guy and your work speaks for itself Duncan, and sometimes we can all fire off a quick email a little too rashly as we get used to trolls and other internet mailing list beasties.
G. p.s. now who wants to buy me first class eurostar tickets to brussels ;-). On 26 Jan 2013, at 14:17, Duncan Garland wrote: > And I put a lot of effort at very short notice into an article for this > year's Catalyst Advent Calendar. > > -----Original Message----- > From: london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org > [mailto:london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org] On Behalf Of Leo Lapworth > Sent: 26 January 2013 12:06 > To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers > Subject: Re: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for > Papers! > > Hi Duncan, > > Please contact the TPF and let them know how many hours a week you are able > to commit to helping co-ordinate this sort of thing. > > Leo > > > > On 26 Jan 2013, at 11:25, Duncan Garland <duncan.garl...@ntlworld.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Isn't this something TPF should get behind? >> >> The Perl Community organises good conferences but they tend to be for >> quite small audiences. I've been told that YAPC Tokyo is the biggest >> with roughly >> 800 attendees and the next biggest ones are grouped around the 300 mark. >> >> Fosdem claims to attract 5000. >> >> We always talk about breaking out of the echo chamber, but never seem >> sure about how to do it. Isn't this an important opportunity? >> >> Shouldn't TPF commit to sponsoring this today and then launch a drive >> to find a commercial sponsor to reimburse TPF? >> >> (Perl still isn't listed on https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/ as >> having a developer room.) >> >> Regards >> >> Duncan >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org >> [mailto:london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org] On Behalf Of Wendy G.A. van >> Dijk >> Sent: 25 January 2013 20:41 >> To: london.pm@london.pm.org >> Subject: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers! >> >> Hello all, >> We know it is late, but we still have to try to make this work. >> Maybe to save the honour and pride of Perl! :-) Would you like to >> give a presentation in Brussels, please send me and/or Claudio a proposal. >> Today or tomorrow please. >> Thanks! >> Kind regards, >> Wendy van Dijk >> >> ======== >> >> Dear Perl Mongers, >> >> I have to make this short and simple. >> Therefore most of this email is copied from last year's Call for Speakers. >> >> What? Fosdem, Brussels, 2 & 3 february 2013 https://fosdem.org/2013/ >> >> Where? Free University Brussels, Campus Solbosh: >> https://fosdem.org/2013/practical/transportation/ >> >> Why so late? >> Because our dev-room request was denied at first. >> They gave it to another programming language community. >> Now another community could not fill their dev-room. >> We are Perl, so we jumped in and we asked for this. >> We got it. Now we have to fill it. >> >> So be quick and send in your presentation proposal. >> >> To: >> Claudio Ramirez (nxadm, email: padre.claudio at apt-get.be) and Wendy >> van Dijk (email: nl.pm at wendy.org). >> >> Thank you. Hope to meet you all in Brussels. >> >> >> __________________________________________________ >> >> Copied and adapted from last year's Call for Speakers: >> >> >> Please forward to your Perl contacts. >> >> __________________________________________________ >> >> >> Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM is >> the biggest free and non-commercial European event organized by and >> for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source >> developers a place to meet (see http://fosdem.org/2013/). >> >> Over the last years the Perl community had an increasing presence at > FOSDEM. >> Over the last two years we managed to have both a booth and a >> dev-room. We collected an impressive positive return and wish to renew the > experience. >> >> Our dev-room request for this upcoming edition (2013) was at first >> rejected, in favor of another programming language community. >> So we would only have a booth. But another open source community >> could not fill their dev-room and we hastily requested it for the > Perl-community. >> Yesterday we got approval. >> >> The stand request is approved some time ago. The stand will be open >> throughout the weekend. The dev-room event will take place Saturday, >> February 2nd 2013 , between 11:00 and 19:00, in room AW.126. >> The room itself has 75 seats, WIFI and a VGA projector. >> >> This environment, being a university classroom with raised seats, >> lends itself perfectly for talks. This is a wonderful opportunity to >> present your Perl project -big and small- or talk about subjects you >> care about. We are looking for a variety of subjects on all levels: >> starter and advanced, generic and specialized, core internals and >> CPAN. We have 8 hours time, so we have the flexibility of using >> different time >> formats: e.g. talks of 20 minutes, more classic talks of 40 minutes or >> longer (although we learned from experience that longer talks should >> be split into slices of 20 or 40 minutes). >> >> Please don't doubt to send a proposal (information about yourself, >> subject, short description and time needed). If you have several >> subjects you are enthusiastic to talk about please send alternative >> proposals. In the case more than one talk is not selected, your >> proposal will help us when putting the schedule together and even have > backup talks in case someone cancels. >> Also mention your time constraints (if any). >> >> Please send your talk proposal by e-mail to the address below as soon >> as you read this. You will receive an answer within 2 days. >> We will submit a definitive schedule on Sunday 2013-01-27 to the >> FOSDEM organizers. >> >> Please forward / distribute this call as wide as possible (certainly >> to your local mongers). >> >> Claudio Ramirez (nxadm, email: padre.claudio at apt-get.be) and Wendy >> van Dijk (email: nl.pm at wendy.org). >> >> NB1: This is a community event without sponsoring. We don't have the >> means to pay for your trip and time. If you want to sponsor part of >> the event, please feel free to contact us. >> >> NB2: We'll also appreciate volunteers, booth and dev-room. Please tell >> us your availabilities so we can also prepare a planning for this. >> >> >> >