miyagawa writes "Shibuya Perl Mongers are pleased to announce that YAPC::Asia 2006 is now scheduled on March 29-30 in Tokyo. The conference is to be held at Ota City PiO, Tokyo. Registration will open some time in January but start looking for your flights and booking hotels during the conference now. We are also announcing the call for participation for the conference today. We are looking for 20 and 45 minutes presentations, and five minutes Lightning Talks. Please submit your proposal via our web form. Make sure you include a title for your presentation, an abstract, a language of the talk (English or Japanese), and the amount of time that you think you will need for the presentation. Feel free to submit multiple proposals if you want to increase your chance to speak. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2006. We launched a blog so you can keep yourself updated by subscribing its RSS feed. We're looking forward to seeing you in Tokyo!"