Alexander Sigel <sigel@bonn.iz-soz.de> offers a report of the Second German Perl Workshop:
Around 100 Perlists participated from March 8-10th, 2000, in the 2nd German Perl Workshop which took place in the nice new building of the university of applied sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin, Germany. As last year, the aim was to foster useful exchange and social networking between developers of Perl modules and advanced Perl users in German-speaking countries.
The program committee, consisting of Jürgen Christoffel, Norbert Grüner, Christian Kirsch, Jost Krieger, Marc Lehmann, Jörn Reder, Gerald Richter, Susanne Schmidt, and Alexander Sigel, had compiled about two dozend contributions. The program with the abstracts is online, and so is the postscript of the workshop reader which appears within the GMD report series.
The organizers of this non-commercial event are proud that the participation fees could be kept nominal (3 times cheaper than YAPC2!) because of generous sponsors.
The good humor and cheerful community spirit did not even suffer from pouring rain during the photo session. Please do not confound one of your CPAN colleagues with the authentic (and BTW pregnant) circus camel!
Slaven Rezic was spontaneously awarded the honor of "Practical Utility" for his graphical bicycle information and route planning system BBBike, running under Tk.
The 3rd German Perl Workshop is already scheduled February 28th to March 2nd, 2001, probably at the same location.
Please check the new persistent online site on which all stuff will be collected soon. A more detailed report is under preparation.
