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Conference sponsorship
I am pleased to announce that this trend of "people giving us money" seems to be continuing, which means that we want to spend more money on y'all. (LET US SPEND MONEY ON YOU. REALLY. STOP THAT IMPOSTOR SYNDROME THINKING RIGHT NOW YES YOU I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING SO JUST STOP IT I MEAN IT IF YOU ARE READING THIS I MEAN YOU. YES YOU.)
If you have submitted at least five patches to us (since the DW project began) and at least one patch in the last year, we want to register you for YAPC::NA, the Yet Another Perl Conference in Madison, Wisconsin on June 13th - 15th. (Or, if you're not in North America, we'd be happy to send you to a local Perl conference of similar cost, if you know of one.)
There's also a two-day "Zero to Perl" workshop that I will be attending, and if you're newer to working in Perl (or to programming in general!) and think that you'd get some use out of it, I'd love for you to come keep me company. We'll also pay the registration fee for that workshop.
The small print: We reserve the right to put a cap on the number of attendees we send. (We're thinking a limit of 20 people total, and 4 people for the workshop; this may be adjusted based on interest.) I'm not sure yet if we'll register you and pay the conference directly, or if we'll ask you to register and pay and reimburse you; it depends on interest level and on how easy the conference makes it to do third-party invoices. We cannot, unfortunately, pay your travel costs (hotel or airfare) -- this year, at least! who knows about the future? If you almost qualify but not quite, you can have until the end of May to get your five patches in. If travel cost is prohibitive but there's more-local conferences or training you'd like to attend, let me know and we'll see what we can do. To take advantage of this, contact me at denise at dreamwidth.org and let me know you're interested, and we'll go from there.
And, a reminder, if travel isn't possible for you for whatever reason, we still want to buy you books or other resources!
(I really, really mean it on the impostor-syndrome thing. I have heard at least three of you who would qualify under the buy-you-stuff guidelines say that you don't think you do enough for DW to 'deserve' it. TOTALLY NOT TRUE. If you're coding for DW, we want to give you the tools to do it more efficiently and with greater skill. Period, end of sentence, full stop.)
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pauamma has also linked me to YAPC::EU, which will be in Frankfurt, August 20-22. Mark and I will not be able to go to that one, but if you're in the EU and that would be cheaper/easier/more convenient for you to go to, we can totally talk about sending you to that one! I can't say for sure that we'd be able to -- I need to research costs a bit more, etc -- but do check it out.
If you have submitted at least five patches to us (since the DW project began) and at least one patch in the last year, we want to register you for YAPC::NA, the Yet Another Perl Conference in Madison, Wisconsin on June 13th - 15th. (Or, if you're not in North America, we'd be happy to send you to a local Perl conference of similar cost, if you know of one.)
There's also a two-day "Zero to Perl" workshop that I will be attending, and if you're newer to working in Perl (or to programming in general!) and think that you'd get some use out of it, I'd love for you to come keep me company. We'll also pay the registration fee for that workshop.
The small print: We reserve the right to put a cap on the number of attendees we send. (We're thinking a limit of 20 people total, and 4 people for the workshop; this may be adjusted based on interest.) I'm not sure yet if we'll register you and pay the conference directly, or if we'll ask you to register and pay and reimburse you; it depends on interest level and on how easy the conference makes it to do third-party invoices. We cannot, unfortunately, pay your travel costs (hotel or airfare) -- this year, at least! who knows about the future? If you almost qualify but not quite, you can have until the end of May to get your five patches in. If travel cost is prohibitive but there's more-local conferences or training you'd like to attend, let me know and we'll see what we can do. To take advantage of this, contact me at denise at dreamwidth.org and let me know you're interested, and we'll go from there.
And, a reminder, if travel isn't possible for you for whatever reason, we still want to buy you books or other resources!
(I really, really mean it on the impostor-syndrome thing. I have heard at least three of you who would qualify under the buy-you-stuff guidelines say that you don't think you do enough for DW to 'deserve' it. TOTALLY NOT TRUE. If you're coding for DW, we want to give you the tools to do it more efficiently and with greater skill. Period, end of sentence, full stop.)
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pauamma has also linked me to YAPC::EU, which will be in Frankfurt, August 20-22. Mark and I will not be able to go to that one, but if you're in the EU and that would be cheaper/easier/more convenient for you to go to, we can totally talk about sending you to that one! I can't say for sure that we'd be able to -- I need to research costs a bit more, etc -- but do check it out.
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Denise and I will be at YAPC::NA this year and would love to see as many of you there as can make it. :)
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[drool]
(I want to scramble to submit more patches anyway. I am finishing up with my CS101 course and ITCHING to get lots of coding practice!)
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Seriously, though, it would be absolutely lovely if you could come. And you're definitely one of the people I was thinking of when I saw the Zero to Perl workshop; if you can come, do see if it's possible to come for both!
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Of course, I'm out of work right now, so I'm currently brainstorming how I can possibly manage to put together the money for flights and the Madison hostel. Not to mention figure out which bugs I'm going to fix between now and the end of May!
(Even if the conference-attending doesn't work out, THANK YOU for giving me the opportunity to think about it!)
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If hotel + airfare does wind up being outside your budget range but only slightly: I will be attending the whole week, and Sarah can't come with me, so I'd be happy to share my room, no charge. Only caveat is that I am a smoker -- from a quick skim it doesn't look like there are any smoking rooms at the main conference accomodations, and I'm happy to go outside to smoke when sharing a room with a nonsmoker, but if you're really sensitive to cigarette smoke that might be a problem. (I'm sure there will be other people attending who'd like to share rooms if that's the case!)
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PM me with the numbers if you like. ^__^
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*blushes*
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But hey, I may even be in Canberra that time next year, depending on if I a) apply to and am accepted at ANU, or get into a Government grad program (er, graduate-stream work training, not study) up there. *ponders*
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.... Oh god, I need to start worrying about making those travel plans soon. Any suggestions for where to stay in Portland?
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OTOH, if you stay west of the river and near downtown, Portland is a nice city. Fun to walk around and see things. So there are really good arguments to be made both ways...
Also, also, it's nice to stay near other people who are going. I will certainly find whatever hotel is closest to the venue and make my reservations there. I hate commuting to conferences. I should probably take care of that...
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At conferences, I tend to hackathon whenever I'm not on the conference track, so it just depends on who has the best WiFi, really. :)
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YAPC::Europe is actually in my country this year. So, um, that might work. I'll mail you when I have thought about it.
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So I just need to get off my butt and start learning Perl, because I tend to pick this stuff up quickly, and then maybe I'd stop thinking I'd be more of a hindrance than a help. ;)
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