The Pittsburgh Perl workshop is pleased to announce a very last-minute sponsor. Topsy has agreed to be a community sponsor for PPW 2011!
Topsy Labs, Inc. enables businesses around the world to apply social intelligence to realtime decision-making. Our fast-indexing technology ingests massive amounts of authored content from the world's largest social networks and our live-ranking software applies influence algorithms to social data, identifying the most important content seconds after it has been posted to the social web. We produce a variety of metrics calculated from census-based social data sets, enabling businesses to interpret social signal in ways that are meaningful to each business segment's needs, with high degrees of precision and in realtime.
The registration desk is located on the 4th floor of the Gates Hillman complex. We recommend parking in the Morewood parking lot (free weekend parking). The entrance to the Gates Hillman complex is off of Forbes opposite that parking lot and will cause you to enter on the 4th floor near the registration desk.
Here is a link to a Google map showing the location.
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is pleased to announce Linode.com as a first-time Community Level sponsor.
Linode makes it easy to deploy and manage Linux virtual servers in the cloud <http://www.linode.com/>. Started in 2003, Linode has grown to over 45,000 customers, with cloud deployments in five facilities in the US and Europe. Linode's features and services include native IPv6, a managed load balancer service called NodeBalancer, an API for auto-scaling and provisioning, and the elegant and easy to use Linode Manager Web portal.
Inc. Magazine recently ranked Linode number 298 on its 30th annual Inc. 500 List, an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. Linode, with a three-year growth rate of 1,097 percent, ranks 24th in the IT Services industry, first in cloud services, and 11th in New Jersey.
There is still room available to join in on a great tour of Fallingwater.
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is pleased to announce Booking.com as a first-time Community Level sponsor. Booking's sponsorship will be helping us cover the costs for providing lunch at PPW this year.
Booking.com is looking for Perl developers!
Come join our international team of developers in the center of amazing Amsterdam. We use Perl, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Memcache, Mason, JavaScript, Git, Linux & more... Our software development basis is SCRUM = Agile! We offer a competitive salary and a relocation package, insuring a smooth transition to working and living in the Netherlands.
Come find your next job at www.booking.com/jobs!
"The only thing you need to bring is your imagination. Everything else will be provided — sensors, hardware, Arduino boards, ioBridge modules, buttons, and LEDs."
Read the full article by our sponsor, ioBridge, here.
Several of the Lightning Talks are now accepted. A few spots are still available and will be accepted during the conference. Submit your talk it you want to present a Lightning Talk.
We regret that due to circumstances beyond our control, Damian Conway will not be a speaker at PPW this year as we had previously announced.
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is pleased to announce Dyn, Inc. as a first-time Community Level sponsor.
About Dyn (formerly Dynamic Network Services Inc.)
Founded in 1998 as DynDNS.org, Dyn is the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) leader, powering DNS and email delivery for enterprise, small business and personal users. The company’s DNS offerings range from simple DNS management to a robust enterprise class DNS solution built on a 17-location, globally diverse IP Anycast network with advanced Load Balancing, Geographic Traffic Management and CDN control features. The company’s email products provide inbound and outbound delivery solutions, highlighted by a comprehensive enterprise-class MTA service focused on maximum email deliverability and inbox monitoring. Dyn is committed to customer relationships and engineering excellence. Uptime is the Bottom Line. dyn.com - @DynInc.
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop thanks Ohio-Pennsylvania Software for their generous sponsorship of PPW at the Community Level!
Ohio-Pennsylvania Software is a web application development firm dedicated to providing secure, reliable Internet applications and an exceptional level of customer service. We employ friendly, talented staff whose number one priority is the satisfaction of the customer. Our primary services include:
- Rental property management software
- Event registration software
- Custom software development
- Web design and hosting
Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, we provide quality software to clients in a variety of industries, from legal services to real estate, tourism, information services, publishing, photography, and nonprofit organizations.
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop thanks Infinity Interactive for agreeing to be this year's sponsor for our coffee service. With their donation, we'll be purchasing some new equipment to step up the quality of our already excellent coffee.
About Infinity Interactive:
Infinity Interactive is a New York based, multi-discipline consultancy that serves global organizations with local attention. We build simple websites, infrastructure for multi-national corporations and everything in between. Our strengths are our relationships with our partner companies and our focus on quality.
We are committed to open source software and are very active in the Perl community. Therefore we are proud to sponsor the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop.
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is pleased to announce that pair Networks, Inc. has agreed to provide community sponsorship for PPW. We are grateful to pair for their recurring sponsorship of PPW every single year since 2006.
pair Networks is a global Web hosting and domain name registration company that has been providing reliable technical services for over 10 years. People in over 150 countries around the world choose pair Networks because of their world class network; their responsive, knowledgeable support specialists; and their secure and reliable servers.
Currently a System Administrator for Google, Tom Limoncelli has been a systems administrator and network engineer since 1987. This year, Tom will be providing one of our keynote talks: What Perl sysadmins wish Perl developers knew, and vice-versa ($a,$b) = ($b,$a).
Read more about Tom and his talk on our Perl Ops track page.
We have updated our Location page with more information on obtaining a hotel room with the group rate.
Please reserve your rooms early. We do expect hotels to fill up the weekend of PPW due to sporting events.
Conference registrations will open on June 26, with a YAPC special rate of $75, which will increase to $110 at the conclusion of YAPC on Friday, July 1.
Costs for students / non-employed participants will be $40.
As always, speakers do not have to pay for registration and there are still plenty of slots open for talks. So please consider submitting a talk today!
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop would like to thank Liquidity Services for becoming our second community sponsor this year.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, Liquidity Services is a leading online auction marketplace for wholesale, surplus and salvage assets. Our marketplaces provide professional buyers access to a global supply of wholesale, surplus and salvage assets organized into over 500 categories and presented with product information necessary to make more informed bids, including digital images, detailed descriptions and extensive technical information.
Internally we rely heavily on open-source technologies -- Linux, Apache, MySQL, and lots and lots of Perl. We enjoy and make use of the Perl community and local workshops, and are therefore pleased to sponsor PPW.
The 5th Annual Pittsburgh Perl Workshop will be held at the Carnegie Mellon University’s Gates Hillman Complex on October 8 and 9, 2011. The conference aims to provide a relaxed, but educational time with talks focused on using modern Perl to solve problems that are relevant to developers in both academic and commercial settings.
This year, there will be two tracks at PPW. The first track, “Applied Perl,” will contain topics relevant to developers writing Applications in Perl. Examples of good topics for this track include:
- Demonstrations of how Perl is being used to solve interesting problems.
- Tutorials on new frameworks and libraries.
- Talks on other languages often used in conjunction with Perl.
- Tips, techniques, or tools to improve coding skill or code quality.
The second track, “Ops,” will contain topics relevant to System Administrators. Perl has been used for systems administration since the 1980s, bringing the light of automation to the sometimes-dark corners of computing infrastructure environments. Perl is the language of choice for many systems administration tasks. And, with all the new challenges of running modern software services, it’s time to revisit how Perl makes Ops better.
Examples of good topics for the Ops track include:
- Dynamically generating configuration files for systems/services.
- Automated deployment/provisioning
- Scalability, high availability, and recovery/coping with failure
- Configuration management, including staged release, version control, bug tracking & unit testing of configurations
- Using Perl to filter/transform/analyse structured text such as email and logfiles.
The call for papers is now open! Please submit your talk proposals to the following URL:
http://pghpw.org/ppw2011/newtalk
Proposals submitted prior to Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 will be given first consideration. Speakers may submit as many proposals as they wish.
The tentative dates for PPW 2011 have been set for October 8 and 9. We will not be able to confirm these dates until Carnegie Mellon University locks in its fall schedule but we do have a high level of confidence we will get those dates.
The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is pleased to announce our first community-level sponsor: Grant Street Group. GSG has supported PPW every year, and we are very grateful for their dedication to Perl.
Grant Street Group is a growing technology company located in downtown Pittsburgh that serves the finance industry with over 1.5 million lines of Perl code.
GSG employs a diverse group of talented, motivated professionals who are committed to flawless work and customer service. Our specialty is innovating custom software solutions for auctions of fixed income securities, tax collection and billing systems, and e-payments.
We need skilled software engineers to add to our friendly, talented team of developers. You should work at Grant Street Group - telecommuting positions are available.
The call for sponsors is now open. Please consider sponsoring the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop. We have a provided a Sponsorship Prospectus for your review.