We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

Sat Jan 26 15:40:05 GMT 2013

Maybe what we need is a match.com of sorts for the Perl community. Who has time/skills/resources and who in the Perl community/TPF knows that something needs done.

I'll pick on Jess (castaway) as an example .........

"1 hour a week proof reading."

That would get snapped up every week. And the reason i picked on Jess is i know she can do that way better than most people in the community, just as i know it isn't my strong point (and I didn't capitalise the 'I' earlier in this paragraph).

G.

On 26 Jan 2013, at 15:08, Leo Lapworth wrote:

> Hi Duncan,
> 
> Sorry that was not meant to be patronising - so many people say
> "TPF should do X,Y,Z" - but miss that the TPF/Perl community needs
> people to get on and do it. As Wendy has mentioned this has
> come up many times.
> 
> I did not mean to criticise you personally, just pointing out that if you or
> anyone wants something to happy you/they need to do it or get a group
> of people together who can do it (I think this is how Wendy, Gabor
> and several others first got going with Perl attending Fosdem again
> a few years ago, and they didn't need any help from TPF).
> 
> Personally I have just got on and done things for the Perl community
> that I wanted to see happen, there are many generous people and
> companies (like you and your company) who can be approached without
> the need for a structure like the TPF. The TPF and other
> organisations come into their own when legal and financial assistance
> is required, but more often than not donations can be sort directly
> (e.g. metacpan hosting) without financial transactions having to take
> place.
> 
> I applaud anyone who does anything for the community, and encourage
> anyone who wants more things to happen to ask the question of this
> list or the TPF or the EPO, etc (or all of them) "Who do I need to speak
> to or what do I need to do to help get X done?".
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Leo
> 
> 
> 
> On 26 January 2013 14:05, Duncan Garland <duncan.garland at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> Hi Leo,
>> 
>> I ran a workshop at this year's LPW.
>> 
>> I got the company I work for to sponsor LPW.
>> 
>> All the sponsorship money went to LPW, I paid my own expenses.
>> 
>> I'll know next week whether I've succeeded in getting some sponsorship for
>> the QA Hackathon.
>> 
>> I've been to 6 of the 9 LPWs. The last 5 plus one a couple of years before
>> that.
>> 
>> I'm active in both London PM and Southampton PM.
>> 
>> Don't patronise me.
>> 
>> Duncan
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: london.pm-bounces at london.pm.org
>> [mailto:london.pm-bounces at london.pm.org] On Behalf Of Leo Lapworth
>> Sent: 26 January 2013 12:06
>> To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers
>> Subject: Re: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for
>> Papers!
>> 
>> Hi Duncan,
>> 
>> Please contact the TPF and let them know how many hours a week you are able
>> to commit to helping co-ordinate this sort of thing.
>> 
>> Leo
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 26 Jan 2013, at 11:25, Duncan Garland <duncan.garland at ntlworld.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Isn't this something TPF should get behind?
>>> 
>>> The Perl Community organises good conferences but they tend to be for
>>> quite small audiences. I've been told that YAPC Tokyo is the biggest
>>> with roughly
>>> 800 attendees and the next biggest ones are grouped around the 300 mark.
>>> 
>>> Fosdem claims to attract 5000.
>>> 
>>> We always talk about breaking out of the echo chamber, but never seem
>>> sure about how to do it. Isn't this an important opportunity?
>>> 
>>> Shouldn't TPF commit to sponsoring this today and then launch a drive
>>> to find a commercial sponsor to reimburse TPF?
>>> 
>>> (Perl still isn't listed on https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/ as
>>> having a developer room.)
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> Duncan
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: london.pm-bounces at london.pm.org
>>> [mailto:london.pm-bounces at london.pm.org] On Behalf Of Wendy G.A. van
>>> Dijk
>>> Sent: 25 January 2013 20:41
>>> To: london.pm at london.pm.org
>>> Subject: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!
>>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> We know it is late, but we still have to try to make this work.
>>> Maybe to save the honour and pride of Perl!  :-) Would you like to
>>> give a presentation in Brussels, please send me and/or Claudio a proposal.
>>> Today or tomorrow please.
>>> Thanks!
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Wendy van Dijk
>>> 
>>> ========
>>> 
>>> Dear Perl Mongers,
>>> 
>>> I have to make this short and simple.
>>> Therefore most of this email is copied from last year's Call for Speakers.
>>> 
>>> What?  Fosdem, Brussels, 2 & 3 february 2013 https://fosdem.org/2013/
>>> 
>>> Where? Free University Brussels, Campus Solbosh:
>>> https://fosdem.org/2013/practical/transportation/
>>> 
>>> Why so late?
>>> Because our dev-room request was denied at first.
>>> They gave it to another programming language community.
>>> Now another community could not fill their dev-room.
>>> We are Perl, so we jumped in and we asked for this.
>>> We got it.  Now we have to fill it.
>>> 
>>> So be quick and send in your presentation proposal.
>>> 
>>> To:
>>> Claudio Ramirez (nxadm, email: padre.claudio at apt-get.be) and Wendy
>>> van Dijk (email: nl.pm at wendy.org).
>>> 
>>> Thank you.  Hope to meet you all in Brussels.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> __________________________________________________
>>> 
>>> Copied and adapted from last year's Call for Speakers:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Please forward to your Perl contacts.
>>> 
>>> __________________________________________________
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM is
>>> the biggest free and non-commercial European event organized by and
>>> for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source
>>> developers a place to meet (see http://fosdem.org/2013/).
>>> 
>>> Over the last years the Perl community had an increasing presence at
>> FOSDEM.
>>> Over the last two years we managed to have both a booth and a
>>> dev-room. We collected an impressive positive return and wish to renew the
>> experience.
>>> 
>>> Our dev-room request for this upcoming edition (2013) was at first
>>> rejected, in favor of another programming language community.
>>> So we would only have a booth.  But another open source community
>>> could not fill their dev-room and we hastily requested it for the
>> Perl-community.
>>> Yesterday we got approval.
>>> 
>>> The stand request is approved some time ago.  The stand will be open
>>> throughout the weekend. The dev-room event will take place Saturday,
>>> February 2nd 2013 , between 11:00 and 19:00, in room AW.126.
>>> The room itself has 75 seats, WIFI and a VGA projector.
>>> 
>>> This environment, being a university classroom with raised seats,
>>> lends itself perfectly for talks. This is a wonderful opportunity to
>>> present your Perl project -big and small- or talk about subjects you
>>> care about. We are looking for a variety of subjects on all levels:
>>> starter and advanced, generic and specialized, core internals and
>>> CPAN. We have 8 hours time, so we have the flexibility of using
>>> different time
>>> formats: e.g. talks of 20 minutes, more classic talks of 40 minutes or
>>> longer (although we learned from experience that longer talks should
>>> be split into slices of 20 or 40 minutes).
>>> 
>>> Please don't doubt to send a proposal (information about yourself,
>>> subject, short description and time needed). If you have several
>>> subjects you are enthusiastic to talk about please send alternative
>>> proposals. In the case more than one talk is not selected, your
>>> proposal will help us when putting the schedule together and even have
>> backup talks in case someone cancels.
>>> Also mention your time constraints (if any).
>>> 
>>> Please send your talk proposal by e-mail to the address below as soon
>>> as you read this.  You will receive an answer within 2 days.
>>> We will submit a definitive schedule on Sunday 2013-01-27 to the
>>> FOSDEM organizers.
>>> 
>>> Please forward / distribute this call as wide as possible (certainly
>>> to your local mongers).
>>> 
>>> Claudio Ramirez (nxadm, email: padre.claudio at apt-get.be) and Wendy
>>> van Dijk (email: nl.pm at wendy.org).
>>> 
>>> NB1: This is a community event without sponsoring. We don't have the
>>> means to pay for your trip and time. If you want to sponsor part of
>>> the event, please feel free to contact us.
>>> 
>>> NB2: We'll also appreciate volunteers, booth and dev-room. Please tell
>>> us your availabilities so we can also prepare a planning for this.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 