From szabgab at gmail.com Tue May 15 03:44:06 2007 From: szabgab at gmail.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 13:44:06 +0300 Subject: [OSDC Israel News] OSDC Israel 2008 - Call for Organizers Message-ID: Hi, After a year break I would like to try to organize another OSDC in Israel around Februray 2008. The conference is planned to be 3 days long with 3-4 parallel tracks. The first step for this is to assemble the list of organizers, especially the content managers and language liaisons. I would like to have 4 main tracks in the conference, one for each one of the P languages: Perl, Python, PHP and Ruby. For each track I need one or better two person who will act as content managers. The task of the content manager is to 1) make sure the community knows about the conference 2) make sure when we set the date it does not conflict with some event of the community (e.g. German Perl Workshop, PyCon tend to be in February) 3) Find speakers and other people who will generate *good* content 4) Fnd a star speaker possibly from abroad (if we have the budet for the invitation) 5) Get the speakers to submit their talks in time to be printed in the proceeedings 6) Get the slides to be posted on the web site 7) Probably other things I don't remember now. So in order to start organizing - or at least to see if there is enough interest in the communities to have a conference please let me know if you are interested in being the conent manager for one of the languages. regards Gabor http://www.osdc.org.il/ -- Gabor Szabo http://www.szabgab.com/ Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il/ 08-975-2897 054-4624648 From szabgab at gmail.com Thu Oct 11 00:01:48 2007 From: szabgab at gmail.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:01:48 +0200 Subject: [OSDC Israel News] Perl Workshop in Israel, 2007, + Hackathon Message-ID: Hi, I seem to have forgotten to send the announcement to the OSDC mailing lists. So here it comes. As a large OSDC would have been too complex to organize till February 2008, in the meantime I have decided to organize a Perl only workshop in Dcember 2007. Here is the announcement and the call for speakers: I am happy to announce that we are going to have a Perl Workshop in Israel still this year! In order to give you the most time to prepare for it, it is scheduled to be on 31st December, 2007. It is going to be a one day workshop with either one or two rooms. I am not sure yet. We are going to have talks (if you submit them), we plan to have job fair during the day we'll allocate time for BOFs and project showcases and I would be glad to receive ideas for other things to do. The exact location is not final yet. We have reserved place in both Ramat Efal and in Airport City but I'll consider other options as well if someone helps me arrange the place. The conference is managed using Act, the tool used by the YAPCs and the various Perl Workshops throughout Europe and the US. You can already register on the web site: http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2007/ Cost is not finalized yet, it will also depend on the sponsors we can attract. Speakers can get in free of charge. So go ahead, register on the web site or if you already have an account, join this conference as well. The dead-line for talk submission is 19th October but if enough good talks are submitted earlier I will announce the talks earlier. Remember, you only need to decide on the talk(s) and write an abstract in order to submit the proposal. You will need to write the talk only if is accepted. Right after the Perl Workshop, we are going to have a Hackathon between 1-5 January, 2008. Details of the hackathon can be found on web site of the workshop on http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2007/hackathon.html If you would like to attend, please list yourself on the wiki page of the hackathon: http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2007/wiki?node=Hackathon regards Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://www.szabgab.com/ Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il/ From szabgab at gmail.com Tue Dec 18 11:40:56 2007 From: szabgab at gmail.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:40:56 +0200 Subject: [OSDC Israel News] Perl 5.10 has been released In-Reply-To: <20071218192249.EDDE063C43A@notebook> References: <20071218192249.EDDE063C43A@notebook> Message-ID: Hi, So this is the 20th birthday of Perl and it is also the release date of Perl 5.10 the latest version of Perl. There are many new features in the language such as * switch statement * say * state to create static ... err, I mean state variables * defined-or // * Smart Match operator ~~ * Regular expressions - Recursive patterns - Named Capture Buffers - Possessive Quantifiers * Lexical my $_ * Stacked filetest operators you can and should of course read the details in http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0/pod/perl5100delta.pod but I am also going to give a talk about it on the upcoming Perl Workshop on 31 December. http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2007/ Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://www.szabgab.com/ Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il/ Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=82476