The 2019 European Perl Conference (formerly YAPC::Europe) has concluded. Below we have collected and summarized the write-ups published by community members who attended. If you have a write-up you’d like added to the list, please get in touch (post a comment below or reach out on Twitter).

During the conference a vote was held, and it was decided that the 2020 European Perl Conference will be held next year in Amsterdam:

Amsterdam won by seven votes https://t.co/lmqfppy4XX — Dave Cross (@davorg) August 8, 2019

Write-Ups

Mohammad S Anwar – The PerlCon 2019 Riga – Report

Mohammad also took a travel log approach to his report, giving a good feel for what it was like to be there in person, what fellow attendees he socialized with, and the food he enjoyed. Among the talks he attended he said he “really enjoyed” SawyerX’s keynote talk “Perl 5: The past, the present, and one possible future”; he thought Saif Ahmed’s “Quick and Dirty GUI Applications using GUIDeFATE (revisited)” was “really nicely presented”; Kenichi Ishigaki’s “Recent PAUSE Changes” made him “pleased to know that lots of improvement work is on going”; he found Hauke Dämpfling’s talk about “WebPerl – Run Perl in the Browser” to be an “eye opener”; and “Human Determination: A critique of CAPTCHAs” by Job “was the funniest talk I have ever attended in my life.” Mohammad adds that he “enjoyed all the lightning talks, specially one by Mallory.”

Mohammad presented his own talks, too, including “CPAN Contributors: Do’s and Dont’s”, “Protect your Perl script from common security issues”, and the lightning talk “Introduction to Perl Weekly Challenge”.

Mohammad also took a travel log approach to his report, giving a good feel for what it was like to be there in person, what fellow attendees he socialized with, and the food he enjoyed. Among the talks he attended he said he “really enjoyed” SawyerX’s keynote talk “Perl 5: The past, the present, and one possible future”; he thought Saif Ahmed’s “Quick and Dirty GUI Applications using GUIDeFATE (revisited)” was “really nicely presented”; Kenichi Ishigaki’s “Recent PAUSE Changes” made him “pleased to know that lots of improvement work is on going”; he found Hauke Dämpfling’s talk about “WebPerl – Run Perl in the Browser” to be an “eye opener”; and “Human Determination: A critique of CAPTCHAs” by Job “was the funniest talk I have ever attended in my life.” Mohammad adds that he “enjoyed all the lightning talks, specially one by Mallory.” Mohammad presented his own talks, too, including “CPAN Contributors: Do’s and Dont’s”, “Protect your Perl script from common security issues”, and the lightning talk “Introduction to Perl Weekly Challenge”. José Joaquín Atria – PerlCon in Rīga

José notes that he was happy to see familiar faces and that “I’m part of a community, and that by participating in it we are all richer.” He writes about Larry’s absence from the conference, and that the community should prepare for Larry’s eventual retirement. José says a bit about the talks he attended: he said “The changes [Sawyer X] dared to imagine [in his keynote] are profound, but I think they would be very welcome.” He found Liz Mattijsen’s take on the Perl 6 rename issue “particularly startling since in the past she’s been strongly on the ‘no need for a name change’ camp.” He said Jonathan Worthington talk on Perl 6 concurrency showed some “Really wonderful stuff,” including “one of the first commercial deployments of Perl 6.” He was also impressed with the performance improvements in P6 covered in another Worthington talk.

José presented a talk on game development in Perl 5.

José notes that he was happy to see familiar faces and that “I’m part of a community, and that by participating in it we are all richer.” He writes about Larry’s absence from the conference, and that the community should prepare for Larry’s eventual retirement. José says a bit about the talks he attended: he said “The changes [Sawyer X] dared to imagine [in his keynote] are profound, but I think they would be very welcome.” He found Liz Mattijsen’s take on the Perl 6 rename issue “particularly startling since in the past she’s been strongly on the ‘no need for a name change’ camp.” He said Jonathan Worthington talk on Perl 6 concurrency showed some “Really wonderful stuff,” including “one of the first commercial deployments of Perl 6.” He was also impressed with the performance improvements in P6 covered in another Worthington talk. José presented a talk on game development in Perl 5. Andrew Shitov – The PerlCon 2019 conference in Rīga behind the scene

Andrew’s write up was from an organizer’s perspective. He says this was “the third PerlCon in its 20-year history that [he has] organised.” He talks about the challenges of organizing an event happening in another country, requiring 7 trips to Riga, and 2-weeks on-site; how the planning used a business mindset that informed the ticket packages offered and the e-commerce site to sell tickets and related services; that there were so many Perl 6 talks that it was difficult to avoid having them overlap; and finally he shares some stats such as the conference site was built with Perl 5 and XSLT in 10K+ lines of code; that there were 58 talks, 35+ speakers, and 200 attendees from 20 countries. An impressive feat for such a small organizing team.

Slides

Jonathan Worthington shares a tweet with talk slides:

Video

If you didn’t attend the conference, a recording of each day’s live stream is available here. (Eventually it will be edited into individual talks, and we’ll update this to point to the playlist.)

Note: The Perl Shop was a media sponsor for PerlCon.