Perl devroom @FOSDEM2012: photos April 27, 2012
Posted by claudio in Uncategorized.Tags: devroom, fosdem, FOSDEM2012, foss, Free Software, ironman, Perl, photography
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Finally I found the time to “develop” my Perl dev-room @ FOSDEM 2012 pictures (convert from camera RAW files to jpg). It was a very nice event. If you missed the Perl dev-room in the past year, you should really visit us in 2013. Or even better, give a talk.
In the pictures above you see Nicholas talking about Moose. He forgot his mac-VGA adaptor (ahum) so he ended up writing code on the blackboard (“the loudest syntax checker on earth”). Marc mixed some Haskell in his talk while Flavio showed some Javascript-powered Perl. Clément presented a Perl SSO solution and Erik showed us a open source accounting solution. Stefan introduced the PerlCommerce platform, while Ævar (a famous guy being the most mentioned name in Programming Perl, 4th ed!) talks about git-deploy (or rather git-undeploy 
). Marius explained the marriage of Moose and MemCached.
As the organizer of the Perl dev-room, I had to attend to a few things during the talks. My excuses for not taking pictures of Mark’s and Guillaume’s talk (I was able to attend most of it, though). Sadly, I didn’t had the time to photograph our fabulous Perl stand (although I have some pictures from last year): Wendy, Liz, Eric and all the other volunteers did a great job.
Thank you for a successful Perl FOSDEM presence.
The Program was as follows:
| Welcome to the Perl devroom | Claudio Ramirez | AW1.121 | 09:00-09:05 |
| Moose Primer | Nicholas Perez | AW1.121 | 09:05-09:25 |
| Advanced Moose Techniques | Nicholas Perez | AW1.121 | 09:35-09:55 |
| Perlude: a taste of Haskell in Perl | Marc Chantreux | AW1.121 | 10:05-10:45 |
| Perlito | Flávio Glock | AW1.121 | 11:05-11:45 |
| The LemonLDAP::NG Project | Clément Oudot | AW1.121 | 11:55-12:15 |
| LedgerSMB: Open source accounting running on Perl | Erik Huelsmann | AW1.121 | 12:25-12:45 |
| Modern PerlCommerce | Stefan Hornburg | AW1.121 | 13:25-14:05 |
| Rapid real-world testing using git-deploy | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason | AW1.121 | 14:15-14:35 |
| POSIX::1003 | Mark Overmeer | AW1.121 | 15:00-15:40 |
| The FusionInventory Project | Guillaume Rousse | AW1.121 | 15:50-16:10 |
| Using Moose objects with Memcached | Marius Olsthoorn | AW1.121 | 16:20-16:40 |
Perl@FOSDEM and some photographic impressions February 8, 2011
Posted by claudio in Uncategorized.Tags: belgium, fosdem, fosdem 2011, foss, Free Software, Modern Perl, Padre, Perl, perl::staff
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All right. FOSDEM was –as always– great. 4 to 5000 Free and Open Source people on the same event has to rock. While I attended many talks about different technologies (Devops aka “System Engineering meets development”, Monitoring, Go Programming language, …), I focussed mainly on the Perl activities (pun intended).
Following Gabor’s initiative (this guy runs on Duracell batteries), last year (2010) we set up the first FOSDEM Perl booth: one table, some volunteers, many visitors and great reactions. This year (2011) everything was even better. We had a big booth at the main hall, attributes (a giant Camel (!) and probably the biggest Perl book collection in the world (!)), books to sell, a packed developer’s room on Sunday, a Perl dinner and many volunteers. There were at any time several people at the booth and sometimes even too many . With so many volunteers it was possible to attend whatever session you wanted and also participate on the Perl developers’ room.
Here follow some pictures I took with some comments:
David Leadbeater’s Tracing Perl with DTrace/SystemTap
Liz and Wendy were to crazy nice enough to bring their giant camel and the biggest Perl book collection in the world. Both attributed really attracted visitors.
We had several books to sell… but not enough. We were sold out of chromatic’s Modern Perl halfway the first day (20 books!) and dams’s Perl Moderne (not the same book) was almost sold out as well!
Wendy and dams (from Dancer and “Perl Moderne” fame).
Although we didn’t have Automating System Administration with Perl at the booth, several people passed and showed us proudly their copy bought at the O’Reilly stand.
The main booth hall.
Those guys had something to celebrate: a new Debian stable was born.
Our perl-friendly neighbours…
We had several self-confessed Perl people: everyone like camels
No pun intended (the text reads “Whinging Bastard”,
DevOps? – More than Marketing by James Turnbull) .
Spike Morelli’s I’m Going M.A.D..
We had 13 people attending the Perl dinner! From left to right: Zeno, Bart, Gabor, Liz, Wendy, Dirk and Balint (the rest arrived later).
Mark Overmeers’s Perl data structures.
David Leadbeater’s Tracing Perl with DTrace/SystemTap: very interesting for a Solaris guy like me.
Introduction to writing readable and maintainable Perl by Alex Balhatchet.
Padre hackers Zeno and Gabor (Padre, the Perl IDE).
Paulo Castro (Packaging Perl and it’s deps…) took us to the Dark Side…
The image integration facilities of WordPress.com are pretty poor. If it wasn’t for some command line Perl foo, I would have given up posting this message. There is no way I would have gone through if I had to click 10 times for each picture…
Indymedia.be FOSS tech call March 20, 2009
Posted by claudio in Uncategorized.Tags: "tech call", foss, media, volunteers
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I received this very interesting mail from indymedia.be. They are a 100% free and open source based organisation heavily based on drupal and GNU/Linux.
Hello,
Indymedia.be, the belgian chapter of the global Indymedia network, is forming a tech volunteer team to work on their website. The goal is to build an advanced participatory news website, based on Drupal. Features will include: an on line newsroom, sub websites to allow local and thematic groups to operate their own part of the site, automated video transcoding, and much more. If you’re interested in helping out and being part of a group of highly motivated tech people, read on at http://www.indymedia.be/en/node/32264.
thanks,
- bruno
Specially for people on the belgian planet grep, this is a great opportunity to combine foss ideals, technical knowledge and social commitment.
