Well done! On 27 January 2013 20:48, Wendy G.A. van Dijk <nl...@wendy.org> wrote:
> Hello all, > > Fosdem. https://fosdem.org/2013/ We made it. We've got 14 speakers > with 14 talks, one for each speaker. We even have 4 lightning talks. The > schedule is craamed with Perly goodness, even without a lunchbreaks and > with short 5-minutes breaks. We even have 3 speakers on standby who do not > fit into the schedule, and 7 of the speakers proposed a second or sometimes > a third talk, and they are on standby too. We could have filled a second > day with ease. > > So, everybody is more than welcome in our very own devroom at the Fosdem > in Brussels on Saturday, February 2nd. Room AW1.126, starting at 11:00 to > 19:00. This night or tomorrow morning the schedule will be online: > https://fosdem.org/2013/**schedule/track/perl/<https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/perl/> > > At 11:00 we start with Curtis "Ovid" Poe, who will talk about Inheritance > vs. Roles Other well-known names are Corion, Countzero, Maddingue, Carl > Masak, ribasushi, Mark Overmeer, DuckDuckGo-Getty, inbetween some > (relatively) unknown > outsiders and we end with Liz Mattijsen who will talk about Perl's > Diaspora. End of course come lightning talks. > > On Saturday and Sunday, 2nd and 3rd February, we will have a Perl-booth in > Building K, level 2, stand number 3. At the booth you will find the > largest library of Perl-books, the big Perl camel, goodies, brochures, > tuits, and who knows what more. Guest of honor at the booth will be: > Curtis "Ovid" Poe. He will present (and sign!) his brand new book > "Beginning Perl", of which we will have a decent pile. > > People who read this and who want to come over to Fosdem and who want to > contribute something from their company, institutation, organisation, that > has to do with Perl (or not), please please bring that with you. Stickers, > folders, brochutres, books, buttons, t-shirts, pens, dolls, stuffed > animals, and more, all is welcome and will be used for Perl promotion. > > Friday night is the famous Beer Event ( https://fosdem.org/2013/** > practical/beerevent/ <https://fosdem.org/2013/practical/beerevent/> ) at > Delirium. We know that a group of at least 10 Perl Mongers will come, and > some will try to come early and conquer our own corner. Pay for your own > drinks... > > Saturday night we want to have dinner with a large group of people. We > don;t know yet where that will be, ask at the booth. We think it is a nice > accomplishment that we got a devroom filled within 4 days. Even within the > deadline, so we will be printed nicely with our schedule in the booklet > that Fosdem prints. And at first we did not even get a room, haha!! > > Many thanks to all who have talked, thought, chatted, mailed with us, who > proposed a talk, who helped spread the call for talks. Excellent > cooperation! > > Hope to see you Friday, Saturday, Sunday, in Brussels, Belgium. > > Kind regards, > > Wendy van Dijk > > > Where? Free University Brussels, Campus Solbosh: > https://fosdem.org/2013/**practical/transportation/<https://fosdem.org/2013/practical/transportation/> > >