The title says it all. Grab it here.
All videos[*] from YAPC::Europe 2010 are online, including the ones from the main room, and especially Larry Wall's keynote and the (in)famous forfeit show by the organizers.
You can find them on YouTube, Presenting Perl and YAPC::TV.
[*] Well, actually, we're still waiting for a few authorizations. This means that some other video may be published in the next days. Stay tuned!
At last! Episode 3 of Radio YAPC is out. This is on a temporary server provided by joel++. Yes, that's right! Not only has joel composed the fantastic Radio YAPC tune, but he's also stepped in while our main web-server has a little nap. (Normal service will be resumed shortly ;-) Everything OK on the server now, yay!
Here's what you can look forward to this time:
Just because YAPC::EU::2010 finished on August 6th, doesn't mean that the work (or the fun!) is over. Oh no... now we'd like your help to make sure that as many people inside and outside the Perl community know just how much of a good time we had.
So...
The "official" tag for tweets/photos/slides or any other taggable content is yapceu2010
Please let us know where you've uploaded your slides (as .pdf, .ppt, .html are best, but all formats welcome)!
For all the above, we're obviously hoping to get nice, positive feedback, not just because we will cry if you didn't like it, but also because we'd like the outside world to see the good parts especially ;-)
That said, we need all the feedback we can get, to know how we could do things better, and so does next year's YAPC::EU::2011. So please fill in the survey that Barbie++ has already sent you! (If you attended, and didn't receive a link to the survey, then please contact the organizers or get in touch with Barbie.
Get your Episode 2 of Radio YAPC now!
This time:
The hotel's shuttle broke down this afternoon. They're repairing it, but it won't be much use to get to the pre-conference meet. We'll try to get a few large taxis, be in the lobby around 6:30pm.
We're running out of seats for the Attendees Dinner.
First of all, if you're already a committed user (that is, you bought your ticket, or you're a speaker or a sponsor), or you told us by mail that you're going to pay for your conference/dinner ticket by cash, then don't worry, your seat is reserved.
The remaining seats will be served in a First Come First Served fashion. So it's time to hurry up and buy your ticket.
Next week, Radio YAPC will be publishing podcasts about YAPC::EU as it happens. We'll be bringing you news from speakers, sponsors, and attendees about the best of the conference. To whet your appetite (and to discover just how bad we are at audio editing) here is a small taster, a preview from the Edinburgh perlmongers heretical meeting.
Thanks to Joel for the music! And please get in touch if you have any suggestions, or there's anything you'd like to here about on Radio YAPC.
Update to add (Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:58:27 +0200): Nicholas Clark won the free ticket, by sending us the right answer (which, by the way, was Jon Orwant). Thanks, everyone, for participating!
Haven't bought your YAPC::EU ticket yet? Then rejoice, because Oracle/MySQL is donating a free ticket to attend the conference. You read it right, that's a prize worth €100! Thank you, Oracle/MySQL!
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To win your free ticket, however, you have to take part in a small quiz game. We love quiz games, don't we? :-)
So, here's the deal: the first person (who hasn't already bought his/her ticket) who sends a mail to yapc-info@perl.it with the correct answer to the following question will benefit free attendance to YAPC::EU.
... and the question is:
Back in the 16th century, the famous Pisan scientist Galileo Galilei discovered that if he dropped a coffee mug and a 55-pound weight from the Leaning Tower, they would fall at exactly the same speed.
But... who threw the infamous mug at the wall that sparked the birth of Perl6?
Be the first to send the correct answer and WIN A PRIZE!
The schedule of our training courses is now online: Monday, Tuesday and Saturday.
Purchase your training course ticket today!
The conference schedule was shuffled a little bit by Our Proud Talk Scheduler. Don't forget to take a look at it, either if you're a speaker or not!
(Updated Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:21:22 +0200)
A short update on our one-day trip to Florence scheduled for Saturday, August 7th: we managed to book some tickets for the Uffizi gallery (entrance 15:30), and they sold like hot cakes: as of now we have only 1 (one) ticket left do not have any more tickets!
If you want to join us, buy your ticket on the official website :-)
One year ago, the 8th Newsletter from YAPC::Europe 2009 was reporting:
We currently have 288 confirmed attendees, and the number is still growing.
As of now, we have just 154 confirmed attendees upon 256 registered people. Since we have to finalize the orders for the coffee breaks / lunches / bus transfers / etc., it looks like we would be ordering much more than what's really needed.
Therefore, if you are going to come to YAPC::Europe but you have not registered yourself on the conference website, or you just have not paid for your ticket yet, can you please tell us by filling in this simple survey?
Thank you very much!
Have a video camera? Interested in helping to preserve the pearls of wisdom and unmissable entertainment of YAPC::EU::2010 for future generations? If so, then we need you!
We're looking for as many people as we can, in order to minimize the strain. So whether you want to record for all 3 days, or just cover a half-day slot, then please get involved.
Just let us know your name, which slots you're likely to cover, and whether you want to take care of editing and uploading the media to yapc.tv etc. yourself. (If you don't, don't worry; we'll make arrangements to get the raw footage from you!). We've set up a page in the Conference Wiki where you can put in all these data.
Any volunteer is of course a volunteer! If you can't make it, or change your mind, that's OK too (though if you can let us know beforehand that'd be appreciated).
The organisers will help with anything they can (make sure that you have a good vantage point to record from, and power sockets etc.); in particular, they can provide you Mini-DV cassettes, so you can just record the talks and give the cassettes back to them; they will take care of everything (dumping, transcoding, uploading, etc.).
Please note that it's OK to have multiple volunteers for a room (redundancy FTW!) but of course, if you are able to cover an unrecorded room then we will be eternally grateful!
The title says it all. Go for it, and enjoy the nice colors! :-)
As we promised you, we're arranging an one-day trip to Florence on Saturday, August 7th (just after the conference).
We've written down some information in the conference wiki. The main attraction for many people will be the Uffizi gallery, scheduled for the early afternoon (starting around 15:00-15:30).
For those of you who are brave enough to wake up early in the morning, we've also put some info about other tourist attractions. We'll then go to lunch in a typical restaurant, and after that visit the Uffizi.
An important advice: we recommend to buy your tickets for the Uffizi gallery well in advance (the sooner the better). We're actually thinking about buying some (15?) in advance, allocating for people who want to come, but we're unsure about how many of you will join us to Florence. If you're really interested, can you please send us an email or tweet @yapceu2010 within 24h? Of course, you can always buy tickets on your own :-)
Every year the Send-a-Newbie program helps people to attend YAPCs. The program is aimed to those who have never been to a YAPC before, are unable to do so by their own means and are somehow involved in the Perl community.
We're glad to announce that even this year some people are going to benefit from the Send-a-Newbie program. :-)
We'll announce their names soon; in the meanwhile, please consider donating to the Send-a-Newbie program, thus encouraging new participation at conferences!
In our last post about the dinner we've figured out that we forgot the most important thing: when is the dinner going to take place???
Therefore, here we go: the dinner is scheduled on August, 4th 2010. Yes, it's at the end of the very first day of YAPC::Europe. We believe that placing social events as early as possible will help people "break the ice" with other attendees, thus allowing them to enjoy the subsequent days even more.
We'll publish more news about the dinner soon. In the meanwhile, we have to ask you a little favour: since Act doesn't manage your dietary habits, could you please fill in this simple survey? This will greatly help us in organizing the dinner.
Thank you very much!
Update to add (Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:09:09 +0200): the survey is now closed. Thank you for your answers :-)
Do you want to bring friends and relatives to the YAPC Attendees Dinner? We're glad to announce that now you can! Just go to the purchase page and buy additional tickets for the dinner.
Please notice that a dinner ticket is already included in your conference ticket; therefore you don't need to buy one for yourself, only for other people you want to bring. Moreover, (non-lightning talk) speakers already have their conference ticket fee waived.
Update to add: we obviously forgot to tell you when the dinner is: on August, 4th. :-)
We regret to announce that Damian Conway will not be able to attend YAPC::Europe 2010 due to a death in his family. The Organizers would like to express our deepest condolences to him.
This also means that his keynote, talks and training courses are canceled. We're contacting everyone who was already subscribed to his courses to settle their refunds, and the set of accepted talks will certainly be changed.
Our thoughts are with Damian in these sorrowful moments.