In order to produce this graph, I ended up gathering all the information I could find about Perl grassroots conferences (so this list doesn't contain any of the TPC/OSCON conferences, but on the other hand, it does contain several unconfirmed or canceled Perl conferences).
The raw YAML data will be hosted and maintained by the YAPC Europe Foundation, but you can email me directly with additions and updates.
Here are some statistics I computed from the list:
- Total number of confirmed Perl conferences since German Perl Workshop (1999-02-17): 99
Conference types:
- workshop: 52
- yapc: 35
- osdc: 7
- hackathon: 5
Conferences per year (of which using Act):
- 1999: 2
- 2000: 3
- 2001: 3
- 2002: 4
- 2003: 6 (1)
- 2004: 12 (1)
- 2005: 14 (6)
- 2006: 15 (4)
- 2007: 19 (9)
- 2008: 21 (14)
Breakdown per continent/country:
- Europe: 60
- Germany: 11
- United Kingdom: 7
- Netherlands: 7
- France: 6
- Austria: 5
- Italy: 4
- Denmark: 4
- Hungary: 3
- Russia: 3
- Sweden: 2
- Norway: 2
- Portugal: 2
- Belarus: 1
- Belgium: 1
- Croatia: 1
- Ukraine: 1
- America: 23
- United States: 13
- Brazil: 6
- Canada: 4
- Asia: 12
- Israel: 5
- Taiwan: 3
- Japan: 3
- Oceania: 5
Breakdown per continent/conference:
- Europe: 60
- German Perl Workshop: 10
- YAPC Europe: 9
- Dutch Perl Workshop: 5
- Nordic Perl Workshop: 5
- French Perl Workshop: 5
- Italian Perl Workshop: 4
- Austrian Perl Workshop: 4
- London Perl Workshop: 4
- Hungarian Perl Workshop: 3
- Ukrainian Perl Workshop: 1
- Scandinavian Perl Workshop: 1
- Russian Perl Workshop: 1
- Croatian Perl Workshop: 1
- Oslo QA Hackathon: 1
- Portuguese Perl Workshop: 1
- YAPC Russia: 1
- Belgian Perl Workshop: 1
- Far East Perl Workshop: 1
- European Perl Hackathon: 1
- Belarusian Perl Workshop: 1
- America: 23
- YAPC North America: 10
- YAPC Brazil: 3
- YAPC South America: 3
- Pittsburgh Perl Workshop: 2
- Chicago Hackathon: 2
- YAPC Canada: 1
- Toronto Hackathon: 1
- Frozen Perl: 1
- Asia: 12
- YAPC Israel: 3
- YAPC Asia: 3
- OSDC.tw: 2
- Perl Workshop in Israel: 1
- YAPC Taipei: 1
- OSDC Israel: 1
- Oceania: 5
- OSDC.au: 4
- YAPC Australia: 1
Cancelled conferences:
Update: included the Toronto hackathon in the statistics.
Update: the Israeli pubcrawl/hackathon was cancelled.
