Greetings Nestopathians,
You may have noticed a short lull in Nestoria development last week as most of the team decamped to Vienna to attend YAPC Europe 2007. For those not in the know, “The Yet Another Perl Conferences (YAPCs) are grassroots symposia on the Perl programming language coordinated by The Perl Foundation”. The European event is the biggest annual Perl gathering on the continent, and this year’s was the most well-attended to date with about 400 participants. The Perl community is big, growing, and very active and we’re happy to be part of it both as consumers (most of Nestoria is built with Perl) and contributors (Nestoria engineers maintain several CPAN modules and have plans to add more).
Although the enthusiastic keynote presentations by Larry Wall (father of Perl) and Damian Conway (uncle of Perl?) were very inspiring, and the content of the many talks comprehensive and instructive, it was the informal chats between presentations and over coffees and beers that will really stick. There is a big ecosystem of open source tools and projects out there, and nothing beats the advice of the experienced when it comes to choosing what software to use and how best to use it. The Nestoria team left the conference full of fresh ideas and with a pile of notes to digest.
A big thanks to the YAPC Europe organizers and participants. Hope to see you next year in Copenhagen.
