[Announce]Yet Another Perl Conference: Canada
Terri Oda
terri at zone12.com
Mon Mar 17 20:53:00 EST 2003
YAPC::Canada - May 15 and 16, 2003 in Ottawa - http://www.yapc.ca/
YAPC::Canada (Yet Another Perl Conference) is a low-cost 1 1/2 day
conference with its roots in the Perl Mongers groups. YAPC::Canada features
two speaker streams and an optional day of pre-conference training.
The Ottawa Tulip Festival ( http://tulipfestival.ca/ ) will be in full swing
at this time. Great for spouses while you're at YAPC::Canada!
Accomodations will are available at Carleton University residences.
Pre-register at http://www.yapc.ca/ with no obligation and tell us:
- courses that interest you
- you would like to sponsor us
- you would like to present
- any special needs
- your ideas
Location: Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Cost: CAD 75.00 (roughly USD 48.75)
CAD 45.00 for students
Includes: dinner on Thursday & Friday, BBQ on Friday and CD-ROM of
documents submitted by speakers; Vegetarian menu is available.
Keynote: TBA
Times: Thursday May 15, 2003 - 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Friday May 16, 2003 - 9:00am to 5:30pm
Training: Professional Training
Topic TBA
Wednesday May 14, 2003 - all day - $TBA
Given by Peter Scott at ExitCertified - 85 Albert St., Suite 1200
Training is optional; Any fees are arranged with presenter
Free tutorials
Survival Perl
- Introduction to enough Perl for people who need it from time
to time
Tuesday May 13, 2003 - 6:30 to 8:30pm - FREE!
Given by Jay Lawrence at ExitCertified - 85 Albert St., Suite 1200
Presentations:
There will be two speaker streams with roughly 12 presentions in total.
Topics will be for a variety of skill levels from introductory to advanced.
Generally there is a mixture of HOW-TO tutorials and presentations on
implementation. The conference will be of interest to the programmer who
just works with Perl from time-to-time through to the Perl guru!
Don't forget there's a lot of networking and discussion that goes on outside
of presentations.
If you encounter any problems with the site or would like to contact us
directly then please write to help at yapc.ca .
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