Fosdem Perl-devroom AW1.126, Saturday, Feb 2nd, 11:00-19:00; Success! 14 speakers!

[Wendy G.A. van Dijk]

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/


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/ ) 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/

Re: Fosdem Perl-devroom AW1.126, Saturday, Feb 2nd, 11:00-19:00; Success! 14 speakers!

[Nicholas Clark]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 09:48:17PM +0100, Wendy G.A. van Dijk 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 

It's a schedule specially tailored to Ilmari :-)

> 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.

Wow, you've got a booth *and* a dev room. That's impressive.
(But not as impressive as getting a schedule put together in 4 days)

I'm curious if there's any easy way to work out which is more effective at
breaking out of the echo chamber. I suspect that it's rather hard to
measure.

Nicholas Clark

Re: Fosdem Perl-devroom AW1.126, Saturday, Feb 2nd, 11:00-19:00; Success! 14 speakers!

[Wendy G.A. van Dijk]

At 10:03 PM 1/27/2013, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>Wow, you've got a booth *and* a dev room. That's impressive.
>(But not as impressive as getting a schedule put together in 4 days)

We had a booth and a dev room in the previous two years!  They were 
the ones who thought it was a good idea to let other have our devroom 
this year, because, well those others don't bother to have a booth, 
but they want a devroom alright.  Ha.


Snakes...


>I'm curious if there's any easy way to work out which is more effective at
>breaking out of the echo chamber. I suspect that it's rather hard to
>measure.

What would work out of the echo chamber:
* attention in tv program or movie (which already happened couple of 
times with Perl code)

* actively mentioning Perl in tv program or movie
* somebody rich paying for ads in magazines, newspapers, tv programs, 
films  (very rich)
* all of us writing press releases about Perl Success Stories from 
our companies / institutes / organisations, and hold down the Perl 
specifics, but be sure to mention Perl Perl Perl (the Java people do so)
* do something cool like a Perl flashmob, or building a mega camel or 
onion, that makes the headlines


Guerilla marketing, it's called.
It takes creativity, boldness, timing and a bit of money (or a whole 
lot of money)

Re: Fosdem Perl-devroom AW1.126, Saturday, Feb 2nd, 11:00-19:00; Success! 14 speakers!

[Peter Sergeant]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Wendy G.A. van Dijk wrote:

> Fosdem.  https://fosdem.org/2013/   We made it.


I know we definitely discourage "me too" type posts here, but this is
absolutely fantastic work. Well done, and thankyou!

-P

Re: Fosdem Perl-devroom AW1.126, Saturday, Feb 2nd, 11:00-19:00; Success! 14 speakers!

[GARLAND DUNCAN]

Well done!

On 27 January 2013 20:48, Wendy G.A. van Dijk  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/
>
> 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/  ) 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/
>
>