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The organizing committee for the Perl and Raku Conference 2024 is looking for a few more conference sponsors. If your organization uses Perl, now would be a great time to support the language. For more information, please visit this article on perl.com.
The conference is only a little more than a month away! Get more information about the conference here.
We're happy to confirm the venue and date of this year's London Perl & Raku Workshop.
When: Saturday 26th October 2024 Where: The Trampery, 239 Old Street, London EC1V 9EY
This year's workshop will be held at The Trampery, at Old Street. A dedicated modern event space in central London. We have hired both The Ballroom and The Library; allowing us to run a main track for up to 160 attendees, and second smaller track for up to 35 attendees.
The Trampery in Old Street is located a two minute walk from the Northern Line's Old Street tube station in central London. The Northern Line has stops at most of the major train stations in London, or trivial links to others, so we recommend taking the tube to get to the venue.
If you haven't already, please signup and submit talks using the official workshop site: https://act.yapc.eu/lpw2024/
Thanks to this year's sponsors, without whom LPW would not happen:
The London Perl & Raku Workshop (LPW) will take place this year on Saturday 26th October and you are encouraged to submit your talk proposals now. We have already had 30 registrations for the workshop so we anticipate a good turnout this year.
We welcome proposals relating to Perl 5, Raku, other languages, and supporting technologies. We may even have space for a couple of talks entirely tangential as we are close to finalising the venue (very central London) and should have room for two tracks.
Talks may be long (40mins), short (20 mins), or very short (aka lightning, 5 mins) but we would prefer talks to be on the shorter side and will likely prioritise 20min talks. We would also be pleased to accept proposals for tutorials and discussions. The deadline for submissions is 30th September.
We would really like to have more first time speakers. If you’d like help with a talk proposal, and/or the talk itself, let us know - we’ve got people happy to be your talk buddy!
Register (it's free!) and submit your talk on the workshop site.
We would also like to make a call for sponsors - does your company want to support the workshop? By sponsoring LPW you can demonstrate your support for the Perl and/or Raku languages and nurture your relationship with the local developer community. Much more information can be found on the workshop site along with a sponsor prospectus.
As well as the benefits as listed on the aforementioned page, sponsors will all feature in blog posts, news posts, social media posts. That starts right now, with our first sponsors who have already generously sponsored the workshop:
Plans are underway for a wonderful TPRC. But a conference of this type is only possible because of volunteers who give their time and expertise to plan, promote, and execute every detail.
We need volunteers!
You may have already volunteered to speak at the conference; if so, wonderful!
If you are not presenting (or even if you are), there are many ways to help. We need people to set up and take down, to run the registration desk, to serve as room monitors, to help record the talks, and to just be extra hands. If you can spare some of your time for the sake of the conference, please fill out a volunteer form here.
We also welcome spouses and friends of attendees who might be coming along to Las Vegas to share the experience. We are offering TPRC "companion" tickets, for access to the social parts of the conference (food, drink, parties) but not the technical. Volunteers of at least one complete day, who sign up before the conference, will have companion access "comped".
If you have questions about volunteering, please contact our TPRC Volunteer Coordinator:
Sleep inducing oxygen deprivation, till we managed to regularly open the windows
International guest-speakers: Indians from India, Americans from France, Ukrainians from Finland, Kiwis from Germany, Germans from London, Brits from Alpine State-lets and ... Bavarians ... ;-)
The Perl and Raku Conference is fast approaching! We will be in Las Vegas on June 24-28, (main conference June 25-27). We want more speakers, so we are reopening the full call for talks/papers/posters.
The new deadline is April 20, midnight Las Vegas time. (April 21 00:00 UTC) (April 21 07:00 UTC)
Now that the eclipse is not a distraction, please consider submitting a talk (50 minute, or 20 minute) or a scientific paper or poster before that deadline!
Link to conference website
Speakers will be informed of talk acceptance by April 30.
Whether speaker or attendee, we look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!
Nota Bene: 20m talks, 50m talks, papers, and posters earn free admission for the presenter. Giving a Lightning Talk does not reduce the admission fee, but earns our appreciation and delight!
Update on 2024-0418: Jeepers. Kids, don't play with time zones. There are so many ways to get them wrong. Thanks to LanX.
A new release of
PDL is out! It’s been about a year since I last posted on here about
a PDL release (last was PDL 2.083).
A selection of changes since PDL 2.083:
Diab Jerius reported
that a previous change to [xyz]vals to return at least a
double had a regression for code that requests an explicit type smaller
than that. Fixed in 2.085.
Diab Jerius also reported several other edge cases: 1, 2, 3 including a fix for
vsearch.
Harald Jörg reported that
large arrays would cause PDL::FFT to crash. Fixed by
switching from the stack VLAs to heap allocation. Fixed in 2.085.
While it is recommended to use PDL::FFTW3 instead,
PDL::FFT is bundled with PDL for the cases
where PDL::FFTW3 can not be easily installed.
Bas Couwenberg reported and
fixed a previously deprecated API in HDF4 which has now been removed and
replaced. Fixed in 2.085.
As part of the Debian release process, Bas Couwenberg reported a
failure on i386. Fixed in 2.087.
Shawn Laffan provided an
improvement to PDL::GIS::Proj so that it would load
correctly on Windows via Alien::proj.
Po-Chuan Hsieh provided a build
fix for FreeBSD on amd64. I also happened to talk to James
E Keenan around the same time about PDL builds on FreeBSD so this was
followed up by adding CI testing for
FreeBSD. Fixed in 2.085.
Ryan Egesdahl provided a fix for
macOS Ventura which changed the location of GLUT headers. Fixed in
2.085.
Eli Schwartz reported an
upstream Gentoo bug when building with LTO that uncovered 64-bit issues
in Minuit and Slatec Fortran code. Fixed in 2.086.
@vadim-160102 reported several issues with
stringification: 1, 2; one of which
uncovered a bug in conversion of ulonglong to Perl scalar.
Karl Glazebrook, @vadim-160102, and users from
PerlMonks provided valuable reports in tracking down issues with
dataflow https://github.com/PDLPorters/pdl/issues/461. Fix
available in 2.086.
Jörg Sommrey contributed improved typemap
handling which allows for using the typemap definitions that are
available in Perl’s default typemap. Available in 2.086.
Ed has added many improvements to the PP code generator and
internal API as well as several new functions. Please see the Changes
file for details!
The PGPLOT distribution now incorporates
PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT module that was in the
PDL distribution. The dependencies remain the
same.
PDL::Graphics::Simple had some small updates to the
drivers. This is preparation for splitting the backend engines to their
respective backend distributions (not yet released) and defining an API
version that the engines conform to.
Title: General Discussion
When: Thur April 11th at 6:00-8:00 PM CT (+6 UTC)
Where: (virtual, see below):
What: General discussion. Bring your topics, questions, and Perl thoughts!
Meeting ID: 920 069 702
Password can be found by running this statement or reading the comment.
perl -e 'print +(0b1000100).((3<<2)*10).(010)."\n"' # 681208
Meeting 2: April 25th, 7pm-9pm on Houston Perl Mongers' DISCORD Bunker
Title: Monthly Book Perl Study - Effective Perl Programming
When: Wed April 25th at 7:00-9:00 PM CT (+6 UTC)
Where: (virtual, see below):
What: Brett Estrade will continue to lead a discussion of the current book we're studying.
The Perl and Raku Conference (formerly known as YAPC::NA) is going strong!
This year, we are celebrating 25 years, our silver anniversary, in the Silver State, Nevada! The main conference will be in Las Vegas on June 25-27, but there will be hackathons and possibly classes on the day before and the day after the conference (June 24th and 28th), so please consider joining us for the whole week!
The backbone of this conference has always been our tracks of "traditional" talks by community members and what we have come to call the "Hallway Track", the informal exchange of ideas and camaraderie that sparks new projects and fuels collaboration.
This year, we are pleased also to host the presentation of Papers and Posters accepted by the Science Perl Journal!
Go now to https://tprc.us/ to check out what is planned and to book a room (see link to Alexis Park Resort under "Location"). Rooms start at only $75 per night, so it’s worth booking early!
The best way to register for the conference is here.
Houston Perl Mongers presents:
Title: Introducing Intellexer::API
When: Thur March 14th at 6:00-8:00 PM CT (+6 UTC)
Where: (virtual, see below):
What: Josh Day (HAX) will discuss his new CPAN module Intellexer::API
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/920069702
Meeting ID: 920 069 702
Password can be found by running this statement or reading the comment. perl -e 'print +(0b1000100).((3<<2)*10).(010)."\n"' # 681208
We are starting a second meeting on the 4th Wednesdays of each month via our Discord server. Details shall be posted in a couple of weeks. We also have a Facebook page, just search for "Houston Perl Mongers". Open access.
To follow on the tails of talexb's general CFP, contained within the conference is a 3rd track for science papers. The survey conducted late last year worked!
Please consider submitting a Science related Perl paper and talk today!
