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The YAPC::Europe conference will take place in Lisbon from the 3rd to the 5th August 2009. A fine array of speakers are scheduled for 4 tracks over the three days, with a sizeable handful of O'Reilly authors on the bill: Dave Cross, brian d foy, Damian Conway and, of course, Larry Wall.
If three days isn't enough for you, there are training courses before and after you can attend.
On the Thursday and Friday after the conference, Damian Conway, brian d foy and Mark Keating are hosting courses on New Features of Perl/Perl Best Practices, Mastering Perl and EPO Workshop, respectively.
And Dave Cross is running a two-day Introduction to Perl course for the two days prior to the conference. Newbies can start the weekend with no understanding of Perl and exit on Sunday evening with enough knowledge to enjoy the rest of the conference.
Indeed, Dave's course isn't the only conference feature to caters for Perl Rookies. Says Dave:
Send a Newbie.
"Another interesting experiment this year is Edmund von der Burg's 'Send-a-Newbie' programme. Edmund was concerned that there are usually very few young people at YAPC, so he decided to do something about it. People can donate money and Edmund (with a committee of trusted advisors) will allocate that money as grants which can be used by young people to pay to get to the conference. See http://www.send-a-newbie.com/ for more details."
What is this?
We want to cover the costs for young Perl programmers to attend the 2009 European conference in Portugal, funded by donations from individuals in the Perl community. Attending YAPC::EU is a great way to get to know others in the Perl community and we don't want anyone to be excluded.
On top of that, O'Reilly's very own Josette Garcia will be attending the conference, which is enough to make any event complete.
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