Hi All. A bit longer report from the YAPC:
It started on Thursday evening, with social gathering - that actually meant lectures on social networks websites and programming against / for them. And there were beers outside. I have brought my wife and son to this gathering, because I though that it will be like YAPC::EU's social gathering. I was wrong. Anyway, the lectures were in Japanese, and I could not see them anyway because my son demanded attention. Another difference between the YAPC EU and that one is that in Pisa groups of programmers setteled in corners and started spontaneous hackingtons. there was a feeling in the air of 'start coding, now'. In Tokyo it had more company-like feeling. At the maximum someone sat alone and worked on something. no more then that. Of course, everyone twitter / bloged in the event. later I found a complete translation of my slides in Japanese on the web, apparently made on the fly. Almost all the people of the conference were Japanese. there were a few foreigns who living in Japan, and just two people from outside - Larry Well and another one. It was no mode YAPC::Asia as the conference that Gabor did in Israel is YAPC::MiddleEast. but whatever. The day of the conference itself, started with an introduction of the conference, (we have 500 people! YaY! whatever.) and the a presentation of Larry Well about languages and of course he had to show a few lines in Perl 6. (he took some examples from the rosetta stone, and show the difference between languages) After that the different presentations started. Btw, it seen that the fashion today is presentation of white text over black background. Most of the presentations were of course in Japanese, and I struggled to understand what they are talking about. But when I did, it was quite interesting. And then the time for my presentation come. I got the small room, (there was the huge auditorium, the very big room, and the small room that can barely fit a hundred people, I think) luckily. There was a break before my presentation, so I had time to connect my laptop, calm myself, be ready for it. and then thirty seconds before the start, Larry Well entered. Oh shit. Actually in the presentation itself we wasn't seen so interested, and mostly played with his laptop. he was probably there just because it was in English, and was already tired of incomprehensible presentations, but still. Beside him was Dan Kogai (the guy that do Perl's Unicode), and one weired guy who was dressed as Ninja and collected signatures from CPAN Authors. Over-all I think there were about fifty people. Of course I was stressed and finished in about half an hour. (I had forty minutes) After the presentation I went to another one (about writing parsers in Perl) and then went home, as Shabbat was drawing near. Well, that's it. See you around, Shmuel. _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
