Programming Perl, 4th Edition

Events

Almost every week of the year has some Perl event. Here are some of the main ones. Most are listed in The Perl Review Community Calendar (http://theperlreview.com/community_calendar).

The Perl Conference, OSCON

O’Reilly & Associates’ The Perl Conference in 1997 wasn’t the first Perl event, but it might have been the most important, historically. At this event, a small group of New Yorkers formed the first Perl users group, NY.pm. This led to the creation of several other Perl mongers groups that year; within a couple of years, there were hundreds of groups. The Perl Conference expanded to become The Open Source Conference, or just OSCON.

YAPC

YAPC, or Yet Another Perl Conference, comes in many forms and is on at least four continents. Every year, one of these low cost, grass roots, mostly noncommercial conferences is held in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Although they share the same name, each is organized by a different group.

Perl Workshops

Whereas YAPC runs over several days, a Perl workshop is usually a one- or two-day event dedicated to a particular subject, such as the Perl QA Workshop, which focuses on issues of CPAN infrastructure and Perl testing. Not many people know that the German Perl Workshop was the first organized Perl event, even before there were Perl mongers or The Perl Conference.

Hackathons

The least structured of all Perl events are hackathons, where Perl people assemble to do work in the same place. Sometimes the hackathon focuses on a particular ...