OpenTech is an annual one-day conference in London[1] that concentrates on technology and digital rights. As far as I know there has been little or no Perl content in the previous conferences.
However, this year the organisers approached me and asked if I'd like to give a 20 minute talk on Perl. I've agreed and I'm giving a talk on "Modern Perl"[2]. The abstract is as follows: Perl has changed. The Perl that people use these days is different to the language that you stopped using to write dodgy old CGI scripts ten years ago. We have ORMs, templating systems, MVC frameworks and all of those things that you expect from a modern dynamic programming language. This talk will catch you up on the last ten years of Perl development. Hopefully we'll get a few more people interested in what's going on in the Perl world. It's a slightly strange talk for this conference. The conference usually concentrates on "here's a cool thing I built" rather than "here's a cool tool for building things". So it'll be interesting to see what the reaction is. Cheers, Dave... [1] http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2010/ [2] http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2010/schedule/
