Sponsors

A conference like the London Perl Workshop which offers a great community event at no cost to its attendees, if they choose not to donate, is reliant on sponsorship. Each year it is a pleasure to welcome back a fantastic group of sponsors and to welcome new faces to our event.

If you would like to consider joining the list of sponsors below then please contact Mark at your earliest convenience. For all of those who visit the event or support the London perl Workshop please consider visiting our sponsors and if you meet them in person thank them for their continued efforts to support our community and its projects and events.

Corporate
Active Securities
Active Securities is an innovative alternative finance business, providing commercial and consumer credit. Established in London in 2009, Active has since extended its reach to North America and to the Pacific Rim, bringing class leading analytics and cutting edge technology to disrupt traditional credit markets. As a UK firm with a global footprint, we aim to extend our operations to new and developing markets, leveraging our lean operational model with technology driven credit decisioning. Creative disruption in the financial world is gaining momentum, given the changing credit requirements of both consumers and business making traditional solutions increasingly obsolete. Based in central London, Active sees itself as a technology firm first and finance operation second. Active has been recognised as Britain's 9th fastest growing privately owned technology firm in the 2013 annual Sunday Times Tech Track 100. The prestigious and highly influential league table ranks Britain's privately owned technology, media, and telecoms (TMT) companies with the fastest growing annual sales over the last three years. Our in-house loan management platform is based on the LAMP stack (Perl). As we continue to grow rapidly we recruit all levels of Perl programmers on an ongoing basis.
AntibodyMX
AntibodyMX provides a hosted antispam and antivirus email filtering service base d entirely on a proven open source platform. Perl being one very important component. Users of t he platform see a near-instant, near-total reduction in the amount of spam, phishing and malware content arriving at the mail server. AntibodyMX also provides onsite mail filtering, white-label filtering solutions to ISPs and will soon be launching CellMX, a filtering service for remote ando mobile workers.
Bytemark Hosting has been the "geek hosting outfit of choice" for UK hosting since 2002, because it's run by a programmer (Matthew Bloch) and network engineer (Peter Taphouse) They have built it from scratch with a goal of technical excellence, writing most of their own software and tools to run the business exactly the way they want. With a staff of software engineers, they are continuing on that trajectory. Their hosting spans £15 per month servers to multi-site managed projects with high uptime guarantees. Bytemark have two large hosting spaces in Manchester linked by £250,000 of core networking equipment, links down to London, and around ten gigabit connections. This is overprovisioned compared to similarly-sized hosts, but with a goal of being robust in the face of random disconnections or abuse. Bytemark run a comprehensive managed hosting service, and have host for big national brands like ASDA & Bostik, government departments such as the Department of Health and Central Office of Information, and hi-tech businesses such as travel site dopplr.com and Britain's largest mystery shopping company, Retail Eyes. They also have loan comparison companies, property search sites, car hire companies and thousands of smaller web developers who trust their clients to Bytemark's solid infrastructure and understanding of their software.
CV Library
CV-Library is one of the UK's leading online job boards, bringing millions of job seekers together with thousands of recruiters and direct employers. Comprehensively covering over 70 industries, CV-Library offers a high calibre of candidate across a wide range of industry sectors. Based in Hampshire, the ever-growing company is fundamentally supported by a team of 12 expert Perl developers who are the glue behind a site delivering record breaking traffic. Keeping work in-house, CV-Library's development team are able to fully commit themselves as industry innovators – pioneering products to help user needs and keep ahead of competitors. Using agile methodologies, and working closely with design and marketing, they turn ideas into market leading products and services. The team utilises technical innovation and best practices to help CV-Library become a celebrated market leader and achieve notable acclaim as a Deloitte Technology Fast50 company, among other titles. If you'd like to learn more about CV-Library, or wish to speak with us about our on-going recruitment opportunities, email Roxanne: r.fitzpatrick@cv-library.co.uk
Eligo
We are a niche boutique recruitment consultancy with a team of dedicated Perl Consultants. We live and breathe our markets. In fact we like to think we are as passionate about the sector as those who work within it. If you want proof of it stop by and meet Rick Deller one of our Senior Perl Consultants. Because we understand the market shifts, history and challenges, we are able to provide honest and accurate insight into the market in terms of new entrants to the market, company growth, new products, opportunities, candidate availability, salary surveys, industry standards, competitor information etc. We are able to find you the right person and/or job whether you are looking for- Permanent Contract, Temporary and Fixed Term Contracts We specialise in and have experience in recruiting Perl Specialists across a wide range of sectors, roles typically include – Junior Developers Senior Developers Lead Developers DevOps Development Managers Head of IT Whether you are looking for a role or a candidate in the UK, Europe or US, we can help. Please come to see us at the workshop or get in touch before on 020 8944 4187, Rick@eligo.co.uk, www.eligo.co.uk
Evozon
We have a team of over 30 full-time Perl developers, 240 developers in total, that have in-depth experience developing Perl using a wide range of frameworks. The technologies we use daily include Catalyst, Mojolicious, Dancer, Mason, mod_perl, Moose, Template::Toolkit, DBIx::Class and Class::DBI with MySQL or PostgreSQL all architected in a high availability and scalable model with the best practices one would expect. Every project is assigned a skilled team, fully equipped to deal with all the requirements of our partnership/joint effort including dedicated QA. We one of very few companies that develop Perl web applications in house and have been doing so for 8 years. Evozon offers custom software solutions, business analysis and project management across the widest possible range of technologies and platforms for web and mobile. Moreover, we are crazy about start-ups and here is where we let our Perl experts do their magic to speed up your time to market. Our marketing team can also be involved doing research and analysis for the pre-launch strategy empowered by the vision you have shared with us and you’ll have a passionate team working by your side doing what they love. Evozon is also actively involved in the development of the perl community including creating and sponsoring the Cluj Perl Mongers group (Cluj.pm), sponsoring and participating with talks at YAPC Europe, London Perl Workshop and contributing to CPAN. If you want to learn more about Evozon or wish to get in touch with us, visit Evozon for more details.
Exonetric
Exonetric provides a specialist business-grade hosting service with the capacity to manage dozens of servers on a customer's behalf, sited in a first-class data centre and on a first-class network. Alongside this, we provide a unique FreeBSD jail-based hosting service, now offering FreeBSD jails with 1TB of online storage for 30GBP/month+VAT. We provide consulting for individual projects and reliable hosting services. We provide software development for Internet-facing infrastructure, general purpose Sysadmin skills for in-house projects or for systems outside the Exonetric network. Exonetric also gladly provides support for a variety of Open Source projects.
Magnum Solutions
After the success of their previous free training course run in conjunction with the BBC in June, Magnum have kindly agreed to run another free training course in the morning during the LPW. We are initially keeping this open to UoW students only, in order to help promote Perl to new audiences. For full information on Magnum's training courses please consult their website.
Net-A-Porter Group
The NET-A-PORTER Group is more than just a pioneering fashion company! What we have to offer is unique; we incorporate cutting-edge technology, expansive logistic operations and tightly edited runway content into three distinct brands with a shared goal for excellence and innovation, and integrity underpinning all that we do. NET-A-PORTER.COM launched in June 2000 and has successfully established itself as the world's premier luxury online fashion retailer. With its acclaimed editorial format, express shipping to 170 countries, luxurious packaging and easy returns, we offer an unparalleled shopping experience. The Group also comprises of THE OUTNET, the most fashionable fashion outlet, and MR PORTER, the global men's style destination. Innovation and technology are at the core of our success. The company has an IT team of 300 world-class technologists who build and maintain the Group's fast, responsive and reliable websites and bespoke in-house systems. This approach provides the business with a strong competitive advantage, setting it at the forefront of technological development in the e-commerce world. Having achieved a place in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies list for the past four years running, The NET-A-PORTER Group can offer you unrivalled career prospects. We're progressive in our attitude, using most of the Modern::Perl stack to deliver value to our business every iteration, which means you will immediately be able to contribute and make a positive impact to our business. check out our careers page.
Nestoria
Nestoria is a vertical search engine for property that operates in eight countries across Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. Our focus is providing the best search experience for house hunters. We use Perl for pretty much everything: our ETL systems, image thumbnail creation, geocoding (internally and with public APIs), internationalization, natural language processing, distributed data processing, and of course the website itself. We also love Perl because it's so easy to teach. Our internship program brings on university students or recent graduates from around the world to work with us for 3 to 18 months - helping train the next generation of Perl programmers. If you're interested in joining our team check out our jobs page.
OpusVL
Founded in January 2000, OpusVL have established themselves as one of the UK’s leading business systems, ICT and Open Source specialists providing best of breed, strategic and bespoke solutions. The company’s key strength is its straightforward approach, which is achieved by following a simple, yet effective method for every project: advice, implement, support, using an agile approach coupled with innovation as the cornerstone of every project.
PetaMem
The PetaMem Group stands for substantial competence in human language technologies, namely natural language processing and natural language understanding. Our systems cover all areas from language identification over machine translation to discourse systems (virtual agents) and are used worldwide by top-profile corporations as well as governmental institutions. We consider Perl not just a programming language. For us, it is the key technology responsible for the performance and success of our systems. Designed by a linguist and applied in computational linguistics, Perl allows us to declass those competitors who are not using it.
Science Photo Library
Science Photo Library provides striking scientific images and footage, unrivalled in quality, accuracy and depth of information. Our specialist and lifestyle material covers Healthcare, Science and Technology, Space, Environment, Animals, Plants and History. For more than 30 years, we have worked with leading science and medical experts as well as acclaimed photographers to provide a central source for the best scientific imagery and footage available. We have more than 400,000 images and 30,000 video clips to choose from, with hundreds of new additions added to the website each week. You can search, download and purchase material from our website or, if you want to save time, simply take advantage of our free expert research service. Perl has played a key part in our business. The Perl community has given assistance and help along the way. We are extremely proud to sponsor the 2013 London Perl Workshop.
Shadowcat Systems
Shadowcat Systems is a developer, sponsor of, and contributor to open source software projects including Catalyst, the elegant web framework, and DBIx::Class, an object-orientated database abstraction library. Shadowcat provides consultancy, training and support for these projects; systems management and automation; the design and implementation of network architecture; the development of proprietary and open source custom web applications; and offers Perl refactoring and project crisis management. Shadowcat Systems are based in the United Kingdom but we deliver solutions to a global community of clients via onsite supervision along with traditional and internet based communications.
Community
Enlightened Perl Organisation
The Enlightened Perl Organisation is dedicated to the promotion of Perl (in particular Raptor Perl or Perl 5) as a production language that is suited to an enterprise environment. The EPO will be providing banking and organisation facilities for the L ondon Perl Workshop for the third year running.
Perl6 Developers
Camelia is the spokesbug for Perl 6, the spunky little sister of Perl 5. Like her world-famous big sister, Perl 6 intends to carry forward the high ideals of the Perl community. Perl 6 is currently being developed by a team of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers. You can help too. The only requirement is that you know how to be nice to all kinds of people (and butterflies). Go to #perl6 (irc.freenode.net) and someone will be glad to help you get started.
The Perl Foundation
The Perl Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code. It coordinates the efforts of numerous grass-roots Perl-based groups, including: International Yet Another Perl Conferences; Carries the legal responsibility for Perl 5 and Perl 6; perl.org; Perl Mongers; PerlMonks.
University of Westminster
Like last year we are graciously being hosted by Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) at the University of Westminster. We cannot exagerate how grateful we are for their support of Perl and Open Source in London.