What is it?

The London Perl & Raku Workshop (LPW) is a free one-day technical conference in Central London, United Kingdom. This year LPW will celebrate its 20th year.

  • WHEN: Saturday 26th October 2024. Arrive from 9:00 for a 9:20 start
  • WHERE: The Trampery, 239 Old Street, London EC1V 9EY (more detail)

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About

Run by volunteers from the London Perl & Raku community, LPW will have talks about Perl 5, Raku, and other languages, technologies and topics.

LPW is an inclusive event and we would love to have you attend, whether this is your first time learning about Perl or Raku, or your 18th workshop. We encourage attendees and speakers from people of any age, background or circumstance, and we are open to receiving proposals for talks on any subject you think your fellow attendees will find interesting.

Further news will be posted here and to our feed.

How can I attend?

To attend is free, all you need to do is create a new user account or log in and then register.

London will be very busy at the end of October, so we encourage you to book travel and accommodation as soon as possible.

Sponsors

LPW is reliant on the generosity of our sponsors to run great community event at no cost to attendees. If you or your company would like to sponsor the London Perl & Workshop then please see our sponsorship information and do not hesitate to contact the organisers if you have any questions.

We also appreciate donations from attendees greatly.

Latest News

07/11/24 London Perl & Raku Workshop 2024: Recordings & Thoughts

Recordings of all talks from this year's London Perl & Raku Workshop are now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxNdCz2kBhVlzbVFcjwY6GkQf4zBhvwFn.

The sound quality of the recordings is not fantastic. We had some sort of issue that I've tried to fix in post. However, the auto generated captions by YouTube tend to be pretty good these days, so enable those if you have any problems understanding the speaker.

I go into the details a bit more about this in a personal blog post about the event, and how much effort is involved in trying to create the recordings, amongst other things.

Thanks to this year's sponsors, without whom LPW would not have happened:

28/10/24 London Perl & Raku Workshop 2024: Quick Afterwords

A longer blog post will follow, likely on my personal site (I'll try to avoid it sitting in my drafts folder for too long). In the meantime, thanks to all who attended, spoke, volunteered, helped, advertised, promoted, linked to, encouraged, and so on, this year's London Perl & Raku Workshop. I think it worked out.

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Scarves. This year's surprise swag, a 20th anniversary scarf rather than the usual t-shirt. We sill have a few of these left and I'm happy to send you one if you cover the cost of postage and packaging (roughly 15.- CHF). Please email the organisers if you would like one. It wil be first come (emailed) first served. Any that remain I will probably take to GPW next year to give away.

Videos. I will be processing these over the next couple of weeks. Expect them to be available on YouTube sometime mid November.

Feedback. If you attended the workshop it will really help us if you fill in the feedback form. All questions are optional and it is anonymous. Approximately 120 people attended the workshop - if half of you can complete the form that would be smashing.

Next Year? We have no plans. Yet.

Thanks to this year's sponsors, without whom LPW would not have happened:

16/10/24 London Perl & Raku Workshop 2024: 10 Days To Go

It's a little over a week until this year's London Perl and Raku Workshop. Here's a couple of things to note about the day.

The schedule is relatively fixed at this point, however if you haven't already starred the talks you plan to attend then please do so as this will inform any tweaks. The venue has a large room (150 people) and a smaller room (35 people) therefore it is helpful to know which talks might be heavily attended in advance so we can make sure those talks have enough space.

The venue, The Trampery in Old Street, is located a two minute walk from the Northern Line's Old Street tube station in central London. The Northern Line has stops at most of the major train stations in London, or trivial links to others, so we recommend taking the tube to get to the venue.

The venue will open at 9am, or a little before then, and talks are scheduled to start at 9:30am. There will be some opening snacks for those who skipped breakfast, and coffee, tea, and water will be available throughout the day without the need for dedicated drinks breaks. We have planned 10min between each talk, allowing ample time for refills.

Attendees are expected to make their own plans for lunch. Although the area nearby is busy during the week, it's quiet at the weekend, and there are plenty of options in the immediate area. We will have an afternoon snack break at about 3pm.

The London Perl and Raku Workshop will take place on 26th Oct 2024. Thanks to this year's sponsors, without whom LPW would not happen:

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More information about all of our valued sponsors is available on our sponsors page.