The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is a low-cost technical conference held at the Carnegie Mellon University's Oakland Campus. The workshop will be held on October 11–12 2008. You can sign up for the announcement mailing list at Google Groups.
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09/03/08 SUBMIT YOUR TALKS FOR PPW 2008!
The call for papers for the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is still open, but not for long. It's time to step up and submit your talk.
Don't you want to be part of the excitement? Don't you have something to share with the Perl community? Don't you want to make your mark on the historic PPW? Of course you do!
So why put if off? Submit your talk now. Just click:
http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/newtalk
and fill out the form. It's that easy.
But don't delay! Claim your speaking spot while there's still time.
08/12/08 Submit a talk proposal for the The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop!
PPW 2008 is just a few months away. That means now is the time to submit a talk proposal. Haven't you been doing cool stuff with Perl? Of course you have! Then why not share the fun with the whole Perl community? Give a talk at PPW 2008!
Just go to pghpw.org and submit a talk proposal. It's that easy.
But don't delay. Get your proposal in soon -- or else you might miss out.
Seize the day! Own the fun! Submit a talk proposal for PPW 2008 now!
08/04/08 Mastering Perl course to be taught at PPW
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is happy to announce "Mastering Perl," a special course, to be taught by returning PPW speaker, brian d foy.
In this tutorial, brian d foy will cover aspects of his latest book, Mastering Perl, which is practical advice for working programmers on creating professional, enterprise-quality Perl programs.
This tutorial joins "From Zero to Perl", taught by Dan Klein, and "Maintaining Code While Staying Sane", taught by Peter Scott as a third elective that PPW participants may opt to take in 2008 in addition to attending our many high-quality short talks.
More information on "Mastering Perl" may be found on the PPW website.
07/17/08 Hotel Information
The University Center Quality Inn in Pittsburgh has let us know that they are going to have very limited available rooms during the weekend of PPW due to other events in the area.
However, we were able to secure a block of 30 rooms from them at a discounted rate. When registering, please be sure to ask for the "Pittsburgh Perl Workshop" event rate. For more information on the Quality Inn, please visit our location page.
We will also be working to get more rooms from other hotels in the area.