This year we are holding the largest North-America Perl Conference in Washington, DC, at the US Patent and Trademark Office. It's a high-quality, inexpensive technical conference with its roots in the Perl Mongers user groups. The conference celebrates the Perl programming language and community, and is meant to be accessible to anyone, regardless of experience, yet valuable to even the most skilled of programmers.
We have an open call for talks at http://www.perlconference.us/ tpc-2017-dc/cfp/, and the published deadline is March 6th -- I'll be extending this a bit, so don't let it scare you. If you have never given a talk, this is a very friendly group and you'll have support and help! I would be delighted to get a wide variety of experience levels represented. You can also give a lightning-talk that you don't need to formally submit yet. We will open registration very soon, and there is a lot of value to attending -- learning about other Perl-related tools, some more general process&people things, and meeting cool people. We will also have some great (paid) tutorials, like a day long Zero-To-Perl workshop. I'll email a list of all our tutorials once we have it finalized. Keep an eye on http://www.perlconference.us/, follow @PerlConferences on the twitter, or ask me any questions here (or directly) that you might have! --Brock (one of the organizers) @awwaiid / awwa...@thelackthereof.org
