Re: conference resource

["Joshua D. Drake" <jd ( at ) commandprompt ( dot ) com>]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:18:01 -0700
"Selena Deckelmann" <selenamarie ( at ) gmail ( dot ) com> wrote:

> Hello -
> 
> For a little insipration on Friday:
> 
> The Perl community recently had a conference in Vienna and one of the
> organizers posted the results. Other than having 340 people attend, 70
> talks, a crazy arm-wrestling match between geeks and excellent food -

They had an arm wrestling match between geeks and excellent food? /me
tries to picture that.

> they raised $39,000!

Excellent great job!

> 
> The proceeds will go toward the next YAPC conference in Copenhagen,
> some to the YAPC Europe Foundation, and nearly $20,000 will be
> contributed back to the Perl community for further development of
> Perl.
> 
> Have a read:
> 
> http://use.perl.org/~domm/journal/34638
> 


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