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<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>If you are on a general mailing list please don't ignore this
just because it says Perl in the title , this is a free and open
event for the technical community so you may wish to consider
attending merely to expand your breadth of knowledge...</p>
<p>Welcome all to the fourth Newsletter for the London Perl Workshop
2011 (the United Kingdom's Perl Workshop - <a
href="http://shadowc.at/pvDXop">http://shadowc.at/pvDXop</a>),
hopefully by now you have registered for this event (<a
href="http://shadowc.at/oqPG7h">http://shadowc.at/oqPG7h</a>),
added it to Lanyrd (<a href="http://shadowc.at/nhq3kN">http://shadowc.at/nhq3kN</a>),
liked the Facebook page (<a href="http://shadowc.at/pMuOiL">http://shadowc.at/pMuOiL</a>)
and been avidly watching the news pages (<a
href="http://shadowc.at/pTjWfX">http://shadowc.at/pTjWfX</a>)
and following me on twitter (<a href="http://shadowc.at/qQqxhX">http://shadowc.at/qQqxhX</a>)...
<br>
</p>
<p>The workshop will be held at the University of Westminster's
Cavendish Campus on Saturday 12th November 2011.</p>
<p>Oh, well...go and do all those things, but before you rush
gleefully away take a look at what's in this newsletter.</p>
<p>1. Training Numbers<br>
2. Food and Drink<br>
3. Mentor T-Shirts<br>
4. Looking for developers/graduates, placements and internships<br>
5. Volunteering on the day<br>
6. New to Perl<br>
</p>
<h3>1. Training Numbers<br>
</h3>
<p>The schedule for the training sessions is now live at: <a
href="http://shadowc.at/nRB3Xd">http://shadowc.at/nRB3Xd</a>, I
would once again remind people that the mentors themselves will
have final say on the number of people for each training session.
If the trainers could set a maximum in their abstract and advise
me that would be fantastic. On the day we will be checking to make
sure you are not over-crowding the sessions and we will
refuse/turf people out if the trainer asks or seems over-whelmed.
These sessions can only work if the trainers themselves are able
to convey the subject to their attendees.<br>
</p>
<h3>2. Food and Drink</h3>
<p>Once again, and thanks to the overwhelming generosity of our
sponsors, we will be having sponsored coffee and cake in the
morning, a buffet at both the lunch and the evening social
sessions and 'n' rounds of beer in the evening to whet ones
appetite. I would like to thank all the food, drink and beer
sponsors for making this possible.</p>
<h3>3. Mentor T-Shirts<br>
</h3>
DuckDuckGo have offered a free t-shirt to any mentor/presenter (and
we can probably squeeze some for the volunteers on Registration
etc.) who will wear it during their talk on the day of the
conference, one each not one between all of us. Please let me know
if you would like to take them up on this offer and state your size
before 2nd November, thanks. <br>
<h3>4. Looking for developers/graduates, placements and internships?</h3>
<p>If you work for a company, or know of a company that is hiring
developers at this time please get them in touch with me as they
may be allowed to attend, distribute leaflets and talk to people.
There are however some caveats so I must speak with them
beforehand (we will not be allowing recruitment agencies unless
they sponsor - these must be legitimate companies) to ensure that
the best experience can be achieved.</p>
<p>If there are companies looking to hire graduates, or who are
willing to take students as interns or on placement for experience
then please contact me as soon as possible so that I can compile a
list and place you in touch with Sean at the university who will
be more than happy to talk to you.</p>
<p>Current sponsors should speak to me immediately if they have not
already done so.</p>
<h3>5. Volunteering on the day</h3>
<p>As always I will require a group of people to help me on the day.
I already have some people but I need more. So please email me if
you can help, I will need people to time talks, check videos and
place leaflets and banners up before the conference and help
manage the minutiae of organisation. At this time I have:</p>
<p>Registration/Organisation: Steve Sexton, Chris Jackson and Leigh
Keating doing shifts on Registration for the day</p>
<p>Videos: Mike Whitaker (helping organise but he will also be
speaking) - I have 3 video cameras and would like to have 2 more,
preferably digital so I can grab the footage on the day or soon
after - I would like to bring as few tripods as possible, who has
the ability to provide more and will help Mike and I on the day.</p>
<p>Setting up: Me, t0m, at this moment, so who will join myself and
Sean from 8-ish on the morning of the conference for the mad setup
rush.</p>
<p>Lightning Talks: I hate to volunteer him but I will be expecting
the magnificent Leon to help with this again.</p>
<p>
I look forward to hearing from you all<br>
</p>
<h3>6. New to Perl or use another language</h3>
If you are new to the Perl language, or are a practitioner of
another programming language then we would love to welcome you to
the London Perl Workshop this year. The LPW is a free event, and
when we say "free' we do mean "free as in Beer". There are: free
attendance, free sponsor goodies, free coffee/cakes in the morning,
free buffet lunch, free presentations by world-renowned speakers and
new speakers, free workshops and then free beer (usually 1-3+ rounds
dependent on number of attendees) and food at the social event after
the conference.
<p>We would also like to welcome those of you taking your first
steps into the higher languages and to programming, come along to
a conference that embraces newbies, be prepared for spirited
debate and to have your understanding stretched, but in a friendly
way with a beer and a cake of choice .</p>
<p>The reason we would especially like to welcome you this year (you
are welcome any time) is that there is a glut of companies in the
Perlverse seeking new programmers, some of these companies seek
experienced Perl personnel, but many of them also seek experienced
polyglot programmers as experience of more than one language
brings benefits and they have on the job training where you can
use your existing skills while learning new ones, there are also
companies seeking graduates and have graduate internship programs
so this is the right time to brush up your skills in Perl and see
what has changed, and trust me a lot has. So take the plunge, at
the very least you can see some of the new things in a rival/new
language and get a free drink.</p>
<p>Visit: <a href="http://shadowc.at/pvDXop">http://shadowc.at/pvDXop</a>
and register today .</p>
<p>-mdk</p>
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Mark Keating BA (Hons), Writer, Photographer, Cat-Herder.
Managing Director: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.shadow.cat">http://www.shadow.cat</a>
For more that I do visit: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mdk.me">http://www.mdk.me</a></pre>
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