fwd: YAPC::NA Second Call For Participants

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

This just went out this morning.  Note that dorm rooms are now
available!

----- Forwarded message from Sarah Burcham <sarah@pound.perl.org> -----

Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:03:48 -0500
From: Sarah Burcham <sarah@pound.perl.org>
To: ny@lists.pm.org
Subject: YAPC::NA Second Call For Participants

        Fourth North American YAPC: Second Call for Participation

                         Yet Another Society
                  calls for your participation in

                              YAPC 2002
                      the Fourth North American
                    Yet Another Perl Conference

                      http://yapc.org/America/ 

                          Washington University,
                          Saint Louis, Missouri

                       Wednesday through Friday
                           June 26-28, 2002

YAPC is a place for people to meet and talk about Perl -- where people
who've done interesting things, people who are working on the language
itself, people who are using it daily, and people who are looking to
learn about it are all within arm's reach. Some of the great authors
and coders in the field will be on hand to discuss their work, as well
as the nature and direction of Perl itself.  All three Perl Development
Grant recipients will be present: Larry Wall, Damian Conway, and Dan
Sugalski as well as Nathan Torkington, Mark-Jason Dominus, and Abigail.
Come and meet the people who develop and develop with Perl.

Please join us for three days of listening and talking about Perl in
Saint Louis.

* Conference registration is NOW OPEN at:

                http://na-register.yapc.org/ 

  Conference registration cost: USD$85

* Dorm rooms are available!!!  They are $USD25 per person for a double
  room and $50 for a single.  Rooms are air conditioned and will have
  net access.  The dorm rooms are not on the Washington University campus
  but shuttles will be running.  Online dorm registration is not yet
  available, but you can email sarah+yapcdorms@pound.perl.org with the
  dates you are interested in, your roommate, or if you would like for 
  us to pair you with a roommate.  An email will go out later to inform
  you of online dorm registration and billing.

* We are looking for sponsors. Please contact Kevin Lenzo
  (lenzo@yapc.org) for information about how you can help support the
  Yet Another society and YAPC. Much of the necessary funding for YAPC
  comes from the generous donations of our sponsors.

* Submitted papers: 
                    Submission Deadline: May 1, 2002 

All topics are welcome. Here is a short list of subjects that might
be presented:

    Perl 6, Parrot, XML, CGI/Web, Interprocess Communication,
    GUIs (GTk, Tk), Natural Language Processing, Interactive Perl,
    Agents, Perl as Glue, Object-Oriented Perl, Scientific Applications,
    Guts, Internals, JAPHs, Perl Poetry, System Administration, DBI/DBD,
    Non-UNIX Perl, Security, Peer-to-Peer Communication, Your Favourite
    Topic.

Please submit your abstracts to <na-author@yapc.org>. See Lightning
Talk submission instructions below.  For all other talks, authors
are requested to limit their abstracts to 300 words.

This year we will accept a number of types of talks: 

  * Lightning: 5 minutes 

    The lightning talks were instigated by Mark-Jason Dominus two
    years ago in Pittsburgh, and were replicated with great success
    at the European YAPC in London.

    Participants speak for no more than five minutes, with the use 
    of conventional transparencies. Any use of data projector, etc, 
    is discouraged, but allowed as long as the five minute time limit 
    is maintained (set-up will be done as the clock ticks). The talk 
    ends at the five-minute mark, regardless of whether or not the 
    speaker has finished.

    Any topic is allowed, and some have been fantastically humourous. 
    Lightning talks are an excellent forum for first-time speakers.

    Please send your talk title, and an abstract of one to four
    sentences, to:

    mjd-yapc-lt-2002+@plover.com

    The deadline for submissions is the end of Wednesday, June 5, 2002.
    Submitters will be notified of acceptance by Sunday, June 15.
    Visit http://perl.plover.com/lt/yapc2002.html for more details.

  * Standard: 20 minutes 

    A 'standard' talk is the preferred format. This is enough time 
    to start a topic, introduce it with some pithy slides, and open 
    up to later conversation.

  * Long and Extra-Long: 45 minutes, 90 minutes 

    Long talks are reserved for experienced speakers covering large
    topics. If you have an in-depth topic you would like to present 
    in some detail, perhaps with considerable discussion, a Long or
    Extra-Long talk may be the format of choice.

  * Tutorial: 3 hours + break (possibly in two sets) 

    Half-day (or possibly full-day) tutorials. 

Please submit your abstracts to <na-author@yapc.org>! 

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