Newsletter 6 - TPRCiC 2020

Jun 22, 2020 · 3 min read  ·
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Check out the schedule and check your timezone

We’ve got a lot of great talks lined up for the three day conference from June 24-26! The schedule is available on our website. Ensure the time zone that the schedule displays is relevant to you! On the right-hand side of the website a “Timezone” option is displayed. Here you can select your time zone and the schedule should update to reflect your preference.

As a reference, on Wednesday, June 24th, the “Opening and Perl Keynote: Get better, not get by (Sawyer X)” starts at 11:00am Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) which is equivalent to 15:00 UTC. The last presentation of the day, “Lightning Talks - Day 1” is at 5:30pm EDT or 21:30 UTC.

On Thursday, June 25th, the day kicks off with “Lightning Talks - Day 2” at 11:00am EDT or 15:00 UTC. The last presentation of Thursday is “Keynote: A Simple Matter of Programming (Damian Conway)” at 5:30pm EDT or 21:30 UTC.

Finally, on Friday, June 26th, the day begins with two concurrent presentations “Threaded Text Console UI in Raku” and “System Observability and Distributed Tracing” at 11:00am EDT or 15:00 UTC. Sessions on Friday end at 5:30pm EDT or 21:30 UTC with “Lightning Talks - Day 3”. Friday’s plenary session is “Raku Keynote: RakuAST: a foundation for Raku macros” (Jonathan Worthington) at 4:30pm EDT or 20:30 UTC.

How to attend The Conference in the Cloud

Links to join each Zoom session are available on the website, https://perlconference.us/tpc-2020-cloud/schedule/. You can click on the link to join but you will need a password. This password will be emailed to you at the same email address you used to register for the conference on Eventbrite. Get more information about the Zoom sessions and how to attend the conference on the conference website.

Thank you to our conference Sponsors

The Perl and Raku Conference is grateful to our sponsors for supporting the Conference in the Cloud.

Give a Lightning Talk

Lightning Talks are short, 5 minute, talks that may be serious, funny, or both. They may be given by experienced speakers already giving full length talks or by first time speakers just starting out (this is a great way to get started if you have something to say). Adding the virtual component to lightning talks should add for some extra fun! If you are a first time speaker you will win a tie with an experienced speaker when the schedule is made, if it comes to it. Today’s first time speaker could be tomorrow’s keynote speaker! Sign up here.

Get Your Ticket

Event tickets are available on eventbrite for $10. The $10.00 fee is inclusive of the entire 3-day event. This fee helps sec