In this issue Register today! Passes still available Q & A with Larry Wall Sunday Arrival Dinner Tuesday night Social: Desserts and Drinks Tutorials Wednesday Night Pull Request Challenge Call for Speakers: Lightning Talks Call for Volunteers 2017 Venue Proposals Open! Registration The Early Registration deadline …

Will Braswell continues his unrestricted production of R(estricted)-Perl documentation: "May was yet another busy month for Learning RPerl, section 2.3.6 was huge so I split out all the command-line arguments into a new appendix B. We now have documentation for all of RPerl's 15 phases of operation, 27 …

In this issue Registration deadlines approaching Keynote address: The Dark Art of Boatbuilding and Project Management -- A salty look at projects, people and customers Sponsor Spotlight: cPanel Registration deadlines approaching Book your room now! Conference rates are only available until June 1st! After June 1st …

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 48 tickets were reviewed, and 7 patches were applied |Hours | Activity | | 1.57 | investigate new ipsysv.t failures on darwin, create cpan | | | #112827, fix in blead, #p5p unicode string behaviour | | | discussion | | 4.60 | #122287 testing | | | #122287 work on a patch to …

In this issue: Keynote Speaker: Larry Wall Girl Develop It! discounts available New to Perl Scholarships announced Schedule Released Sponsor Spotlight: craigslist Keynote Speaker: Larry Wall Larry Wall developed the Perl interpreter and language while working for System Development Corporation, which later became part …

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 57 tickets were reviewed or worked on, and 14 patches were applied. [perl #126410] and [perl #124387] are related in that both problems are related to the same set of changes. Between perl 5.8 and 5.16 inclusive, perl cached the CV for DESTROY in overload magic for the stash. This was …

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the March round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by April 9th, 2016. The Committee members will start the voting process following that …

YAPC::NA::2016 is fast approaching! There are many questions being asked, and I would like to take the time to address a few of them here. Where is the website? It did take us a bit longer to get off the ground than expected, but I’m happy to announce that the YAPC::NA::2016 website is up and running! You can find much …

Tony Cook writes: Approximately 43 tickets were reviewed, and 11 patches were applied | Hours | Activity | | 2.38 | #123737 testing, apply to blead | | | #123737 testing, produce a patch and comment | | | #123737 re-test, look for similar no_op() issues, push to blead | | 2.15 | #123788 re-check patch, testing | | | …

Are you an experienced Perl instructor who would like to offer a course at YAPC:NA this year in Orlando? We want to offer the Perl community a selection of courses and tutorials before and after the conference. Master Classes can be a half day (3 hours), full day (6 hours) or 2 days in length and will run on Sunday …