Hi all, For what every little it's worth, I'm hoping to be there in my unofficial capacity as dork-behind-perldesignpatterns.com. I'll monitor my email as usual. Never been before so I'd be nice to have some driving agenda pushing me towards people.
-scott On 0, Richard Dice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tomorrow is the last day to register for YAPC::NA and get in > > on the group block at the hotel. > > I am attempting to renegotiate this with the hotel. I have high hopes that > this > will be successful, but as of right now, the end of this week is the > deadline. > That doesn't mean that the rooms will disappear entirely - only that they will > no longer be pre-reserved for YAPC attendees. However, I expect > public-at-large > people will be quite aggressive going after rooms at this facility, so they > won't last long. (1/2 life of maybe 4 days?) > > > I wasn't planning on going. > > > > However, if there were enough people on this list who are > > going who would like to jump-start the P5EE effort with a > > BOF (Bird of a Feather) discussion there, I would consider > > going. > > > > * Is anyone going? > > I am. (Somewhat obviously.) > > > * Do you believe that a conversation (maybe one evening > > after the conference activities) on P5EE would be > > valuable? > > I might recommend something on Sunday. We have many evening activities > planned > for the conference. (Or, the BOF could be held on the cruise boat where the > Tuesday night banquet will be held. P5EE people could just sort of gang up > all > in the same place and talk before or after dinner is served.) > > > P.S. As someone who advocates Perl for enterprise software > > uses and encounters skepticism regularly, I still believe > > in this project. However, we need to build a community in > > order for it to be successful. > > When the schedule was programmed it seemed to me like there were a few talks > that were P5EE-ish: See "Perl DateTime Project" and "Managing Email with > Perl", > 3:15pm onwards in the Giovanni room. > http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/day2.html It's not obvious, but if you > click on the talk titles you'll get descriptions of the talks. > > I grouped these two together one after the other as a kind of thematic nod to > P5EE. > > Between the efforts described in those talks and Damian's upcoming "Perl Best > Practices" book (to be released late summer / early fall), I feel as though > some > slow progress is being made in the general viscinity of P5EE. > > Cheers, > Richard > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
