Sponsoring London Perl Workshop 2010
Fellow Nestorhackers,
one of the great things about starting a company and watching it grow is that you can steer some of the resources of the company back to the people who helped. In our case, Nestoria would be unthinkable without the amazing open-source software created by the global perl community. With this in mind, I'm very proud to announce that for the fifth year in a row Nestoria will be sponsoring the London Perl Workshop. This year's event is on Saturday the 4th of December at University of London's Cavendish Campus. The theme for this year is Perl Flavours, which is an appropriate reflection of the wide variety and diversity found under the blanket term "perl", thus staying true to perl's roots of TMTOWTDI.
As at past LPWs, we will be sponsoring prizes to be awarded by audience vote at the end of the day. Specifically, prizes will be presented for
- Best talk
- Best topic
- Best new CPAN module of 2010
Last year competition for the prizes was fierce. Over the five years the quality and size of the event has continually improved, which is a credit to the excellent organiser Mark Keating and all the volunteers who make it happen. Thanks also to University of London for making the facilities available. Hopefully many of the media companies in London that use perl will send speakers.
The lanyrd page for the event is up, I look forward to seeing you there.
On a related note, over the years we've had the pleasure of welcoming several interns to the wonderful world of perl here at Nestoria. If you are reading this, have basic web developer skills in another language, would like to learn perl in London, and have a few months to spare - please consider applying for one of our internship positions. As an example, this summer university student Dan joined us and as one of his projects he produced Geo::Coder::Many for the world to enjoy.
And finally, for those of you who love tech conferences, stay tuned as we'll have some more sponsorships to announce shortly. For a full list of the events and projects we support please see our developers page.
