Hi Andrew and all the others, > I am actually more keen on the idea of a Baltic Perl Workshop, > traveling between the 3 countries. I am not saying that we will not > promote it and a lot of people will probably attend.
I second that too. The Nordic Perl Workshop has evolved into somewhat of a strong "brandname", with a rather clear geographical target and we are just stable enough to hope keeping it like this. On the other hand, starting workshops in the baltic states would be awesome and I would definitely do all I could to personally attend workshops there. But as the others I think it should be stamped with a different name than 'Nordic' since it targets such a different group. The python community is strong in the baltic and has hosted its annual european conference (yap(ython)c?) in Vilnius in Lithuania a couple of time (including in july soon) so I believe there is interest in dynamic languages in those countries. Riga sounds like a good choice too, or Tallinn as well for that matter, since it's easier to travel to those towns than to Vilnius. As for the name, 'Baltic Perl Workshop' sounds fine to me. But have you found local mongers motivated to help organizing? And, Andrew, first of all I think your suggestion is great and I really hope you'll manage to get a show going on. In the end, place and name don't matter so much (as long as it's not nordic ;), I just wand to hack perl with fellow nerds. Good luck! /Erwan, co-organizer of the Stockholm nordic workshops
