YAPC::Europe::2006
30th August - 1st September 2006
Birmingham, UK
Welcome the eighth official bulletin for the 2006
YAPC::Europe Perl
Conference in Birmingham, UK.
==== The Preliminary Schedule ====
We have been blessed with a wealth of quality talks and over
the last
week we have been having a hard time trying to schedule
everything and
avoiding conflicts for speakers and themes. It's not been
easy, but we
think we have got a schedule we can let you see. So here it
is....
* http://www.birmingham2006.com/cgi-bin/yapc.pl?act
=talk-schedule
Please bear in mind everything is subject to change.
==== Our Sponsors ====
We'd like to introduce you to a few of our sponsors.
1) Shadowcat Systems - http://www.shadowc
atsystems.co.uk/
Our first Gold Sponsor, Shadowcat Systems, will be
sponsoring the
Workshop Room at the conference.
Shadowcat Systems is a developer of open source software
projects and a
keen supporter of community software. Shadowcat also
provides
consultancy and support for automated systems, network
frameworks, open
source software and internet components, and develops
proprietary
solutions for clients and its own, licensed, proprietary
software.
Shadowcat Systems are based in the United Kingdom but we
deliver
solutions, consultancy and support to a global community of
clients via
onsite supervision along with traditional and internet based
communications.
2) The Positive Internet Company Ltd. -
http://www.positive
-internet.com/
Media Sponsor Positive Internet have donate a server to us,
in order for
us to host the Conference Website, along with the Conference
Wiki,
Birmingham OpenGuides and the Birmingham Perl Mongers
website.
3) UKUUG - http://www.ukuug.org/
UKUUG, also a Media Sponsor, have very kindly been
publicising us to
their members online and via their printed newsletters.
UKUUG - the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group - is a
non-profit
organization and technical forum for the advocacy of open
systems,
particularly Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the
promotion of free
and open-source software, and the advancement of open
programming
standards and networking protocols. It uniquely caters for
the needs of
people in this area. Formed in 1976, it is totally funded by
membership
subscriptions and is completely independent of specific
hardware and
software vendors. All profits are used to further the
activities of the
organization.
4) Apress - http://www.apress.com
Book publishers Apress have signed up as Media Sponsors, and
have long
been supporting the publication of Perl and Open Source
Software books,
and we are delight to have them supply books for the
conference auction.
We are in touch with more sponsors and hope to be able to
announce them
in forthcoming bulletins. Many thanks to everyone who helped
with
sponsorship so far, but we're still looking for anyone else
who can
help, no matter how little you think you can contribute. So
if you'd
like to sponsor us, please get in touch.
==== Contact ====
Should you wish to contact us, there is an email address
(mailto:organisers birmingham2006.com) available for direct
contact,
where you can mail us with your questions and suggestions.
There is also
the regular YAPC::Europe conference mailing list
(http://lists.yapceurope.org/mailman/listinfo/conferences
), which is
open to all.
That's all for this release. Look out for more news and
announcements in
the future.
Thanks,
The Birmingham 2006 Organisers
http://www.birmingham20
06.com
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