The Perl Toolchain Summit (PTS) is happening this week in Marlow, on the banks of the River Thames, in the UK. Most of the attendees will gather on Wednesday evening, with the real business kicking off at 9am on Thursday morning. For the next four days 32 Perl developers will be working intensively on the tools that all Perl developers rely on.

Attendees log their activities on the wiki, and blog posts will appear during and after. You can see some of what goes on in semi real-time on twitter, via the #pts2019 hashtag.

We're extremely grateful to MaxMind, who once again are a Gold Sponsor for the PTS. The attendees are brought together from around the world, and we're only able to do this with the support of companies from our community, like MaxMind.

Founded in 2002, MaxMind is an industry-leading provider of IP intelligence and online fraud detection services. Thousands of companies of all sizes rely on MaxMind's GeoIP geolocation and end-user data for fraud prevention, ad targeting, content customization, digital rights management, and more. MaxMind's minFraud Network leverages this data along with IP, email, and device reputations, established from over 200 million transactions and events per month, to help online businesses prevent fraud with real-time risk scoring and data for modeling.

A number of CPAN authors work at MaxMind, including Olaf Alders (OALDERS), Florian Ragwitz (FLORA), Mark Fowler (MARKF), TJ Mather (TJMATHER), Mateu Hunter (MATEU), Greg Oschwald (OSCHWALD), Andy Jack (ANDYJACK), Pat Cronin (PCRONIN), Ioan Rogers (IOANR), Ruben Navarro (RUBEN), William Stevenson (WDS), Ran Eilam (EILARA), and Kevin Phair (KLPTWO).

Olaf Alders, founder of the MetaCPAN project, is a senior engineer at MaxMind, and will be attending the PTS.

Our thanks again to MaxMind for supporting the Toolchain Summit.