[ANNOUNCE] YAPC::Europe 2011 in a month

[Ben Tisdall]

Finally pulled my finger out and sorted everything out today. First
YAPC, v.excited!

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Mallory van Achterberg
<stommepoes at stommepoes.nl> wrote:
> 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 :) ]
>