[ANNOUNCE] YAPC::Europe 2011 in a month

[Mallory van Achterberg]

A note:
There are a lot of "people" registered, with no info or anything.
I wonder if these are spam attempts that didn't go anywhere?

:)

-Mallory
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 08:30:20AM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote:
> A message from the YAPC::Europe organisers....
> 
> It is only one month left before YAPC::Europe 2011 "Modern Perl"! The
> conference is on 15-17 August in Riga, Latvia.
> 
> Yesterday we reached another record of 200 committed attendees. We
> know that Perl community is much bigger and would like to see
> everybody in Riga. We've got huge venue which can host all the active
> subscribers of @pm.org European lists together in one room. People
> from 40 countries and 60 monger groups are going to attend the
> conference: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/stats/.
> 
> 
> Our schedule is enormous and dense. Three days of four or five talk
> tracks. Three hours of lightning talks. Track for beginners. Larry
> Wall Monday morning, Damian Conway Tuesday morning, Jesse Vincent
> Wednesday morning. Talks about Perl 5, 6, 5.14 and even 5.16. Talks on
> web frameworks, DBIx et. al., NoSQL and clouds, and much much more:
> 
> Monday: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/schedule/?day=2011-08-15
> Tuesday: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/schedule/?day=2011-08-16
> Wednesday: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/schedule/?day=2011-08-17
> 
> Not to mention the pre-conference meeting in the centre of city and
> the attendees dinner in famous Riga's place.
> 
> Three easy steps to become a committed attendee:
> 1) Register: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/register
> 2) Join the conference: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/register
> 3) Buy a ticket: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/purchase (note that you
> can save 80% by attending Wednesday only!)
> 
> 
> What else you can do:
> 
> * Submit a talk or a lightning one: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/newtalk
> * Become a speaker at the Beginner track: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talk/3242
> * Become (or bring) a sponsor:
> http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/sponsorship/index.html
> * Attend teaching classes: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talks#151
> * Attend the Perl 6 hackathon: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talk/3388
> * Simply attend the conference and socialize.
> 
> Hope to see you in Riga this August!
> 
> Conference website: http://yapceurope.lv
> Twitter channel: http://twitter.com/yapcrussia
> Official hashtag: #ye2011
> Orgarnizer's e-mail address: mail at yapceurope.lv
> 
> 
> [ Note from Leo: http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/stats/ - London.pm doesn't quite
> have tripple the number of the next biggest PM group yet - and really we should
> have quadruple! - so what are you waiting for :) ]