The "Frozen Perl 2010":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2010/ workshop is scheduled for Saturday, February 6th at the University of Minnesota's McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis, MN. The organizers just put out their "call for speakers":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2010/cfs.html a day or so ago. If you have no fear of freezing temperatures and want to attend or speak at a great Perl workshop, check it out. Also, the are still "looking for sponsors":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2010/sponsorship.html if you'd like to help

Conference season is in full swing and the next event that you might be interested in is "YAPC::EU 2009":http://yapceurope2009.org/ye2009/. This year's conference is going to be in Lisbon, Portugal and will be loaded with days of Perl programming talks and events. The theme this year is 'Corporate Perl'. Some featured presentations include Larry Wall's opening keynote, "Damian Conway's 'The Missing Link'":http://yapceurope2009.org/ye2009/talk/2088, and José Castro's closing keynote. You can check out

We are excited to announce that "Columbus, Ohio Perl Mongers":http://columbus.pm.org/ will be the hosts of "YAPC::NA 2010":http://yapc2010.com/. They came in a very close second in last year's bidding and came back this year with an excellent proposal that sets the stage for a great YAPC::NA 2010 in Columbus. Congratulations Columbus!

The Perl Foundation will have a booth at OSCON again this year. The booth always serves as a great meeting place for those of us in the Perl community, but beyond that, it tends to be a little confused as to its purpose. We know that we want to show other OSCON attendees that the Perl community is an active community that is on the cutting edge of technology. We

The dates and pricing for the "tenth annual YAPC::NA":http://yapc10.org/yn2009 have been announced. This year's conference will be held at at "Carnegie Mellon University":http://www.cmu.edu/ in Pittsburgh, PA on from June 22nd through June 24th. Registration is open with early bird pricing happening now. Also, "the call for papers":http://yapc10.org/yn2009/cfp.html is open through Friday, 24 April 2009. The Yet Another Perl Conference is a high-quality, inexpensive technical conference with its roots in the

Perl 5's revision history is now "stored in a git repository":http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git accessible to any developer around the world! Since March 1997 Perl 5 development has been done using a "Perforce":http://www.perforce.com revision control system generously hosted by "ActiveState":http://www.activestate.com. This system provided a powerful tool set for core developers, but tended to keep outside contributors at arms length. Now there is "a git repository available to anyone":http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git. The repository is hosted on

We are happy to announce that "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com has donated $50,000 to The Perl Foundation to aid in the further development and maintenance of the Perl programming language in general, and Perl 5.10 in particular. "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com is also donating hardware and sysadmin time to provide the servers for "the new git master for Perl 5":http://use.perl.org/articles/08/12/22/0830205.shtml. Booking.com is Europe's largest and fastest growing online hotel reservation service. It is based in Amsterdam,

For ten years the Perl community has made it a point to recognize the many significant contributions made by the unsung heros of Perl. These volunteers often work behind the scenes, serving the community and contributing to the ongoing success of Perl. The White Camel award is intended to honor those who make noteworthy and ongoing non-technical contributions in benefit of the Perl community. This year we have three White