The conference schedule is now available.
We now have a list of confirmed talks on the wiki. It's not as long as we wanted, but it has had the desired effect: the unconfirmed speakers are starting to confirm their attendance, so the list of talks will be growing over the next few days.
We are delighted to annouce that Allison Randal will be giving the opening keynote at YAPC::Europe.
Allison's first geek career was as a research linguist in eastern Africa. But eventually her love of coding seduced her away from natural languages to artificial ones. A Perl programmer by trade, she's the president of The Perl Foundation, a member of the Perl 6 design team, a contributing developer on the Perl 6 compiler, project manager for Perl 6, co-author of "Perl 6 & Parrot Essentials" with Dan Sugalski and Leopold Toetsch, and founder and president of Onyx Neon.
| Who: | You. |
|---|---|
| What: | A 5-minute talk on just about anything. For more information: What are Lightning Talks? |
| Where: | YAPC::Europe in Belfast |
| When: | September 15-17, 2004 Submission deadline September 8, 2004 Speaker notification September 9, 2004 |
| Why: | To get one third of your lifetime allotment of "15 minutes of fame". |
| How: | Submit your proposal! |
We are looking for more talk proposals during the first fortnight of June. In particular, we would like the people who mentioned their talks on the wiki to submit proposals. Of course, this means that the speaker notification will happen at the end of June.
We had planned that we would have chosen the talks by now, and notified the speakers. But that didn't happen: we've had a few minor problems.
One of those problems was that we got quite a few proposals that looked interesting but didn't contain enough detail to allow our content manager to decide. He (the content manager) has contacted those authors and is waiting for some more information.
The other possible problem seems to be that some people suggested talks on the wiki but then didn't submit a proposal! I was looking forward to hearing some of those talks, so I wanted to know why they weren't on the list.
There could be many reasons why these talks were not proposed, including: the author may have changed his mind; the author may not have seen the call for papers; the author might think his talk was unpopular because it didn't generate discussion on the wiki. I can't do much about the first case, but I can help with the other two. I'll start with some encouragement: there was a big lack of discussion on the wiki; most talk suggestions didn't receive any comments, so don't let that prevent you from trying.
And now, with a purely selfish motive to see some of the talks I want, I'm going to reopen the call for papers for a fortnight so that those people who put suggestions on the wiki can turn those into proposals and email them to us.
If that doesn't work, I might have to
The Call for Papers deadline for submissions is Friday 30th April, just 8 days away.
If you want to present, you should email your proposals now. If you posted your ideas on the wiki, we still need to get your proposal via email.
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