Code = Conversation

I posted this on my use.perl journal yesterday:

This year, Nordic Perl Workshop is co-located with another open source conference, Go Open. This is what we’re working on right now:

• The conference theme is “Your future with Perl”. Talks have been subitted, now we’ll try to stich together an interesting schedule.
• We’re aiming for one Perl6/Rakudo/Parrot track and one track showing modern use of Perl, hopefully with a flavour of Enlightened Perl mixed in.
• NPW will share venue with Go Open, giving everyone an opportunity to see how a Perl conference can be, and giving the Perl community a place to show off it’s best sides. The Go Open theme: “Openness is profitable”.
• The day after the conference, we’ll open the doors for our Perl6/Rakudo/Parrot/Enlightened Perl hackathon at Redpill-Linpro‘s nice office (the same place we had the Perl QA hackathon last april).
• Gabor Szabo will come and hold his newly improved 4-day Test Automation course right after the hackathon (at the same venue too). There’s room for 12 people there, contact Gabor if you’d like to come.

And to boot, there’ll be another Perl QA hackathon in Birmingham just the week before. LOTS of good reasons to visit northern europe around easter, in other words.

Still, is there anything we could do to make it better? I’m specifically thinking about the opportunity we have due to sharing venue with Go Open… Any ideas on how we could “market” the livelyness and good parts of the Perl community? Who would be the natural people to do this? Would you like to do something?

Please share your thoughts!

- Salve (Oslo.pm and NPW guy)

Any ideas?