6th St. Petersburg Perl Workshop and Hackathon Saint Perl 2014

In December, Perl celebrates its 27th birthday. And we traditionally hold the next, the sixth in a row, Saint Perl , timed to coincide with this glorious date. This year it will be held December 20-21.

Hackathon

We decided to experiment a little with the new format and for the first time to conduct a hackathon. It will be held on the first day of the event, December 20th. The theme of the hackathon is “ High-Level Git Perl Interface ”. We all love and actively use Git (and whoever does not love and does not use, he should immediately correct it). And often you want to automate some work with it or just be able to execute it from some kind of program code. However, Git itself in its implementation is not very suitable for this - it is rather a set of scripts than a library to which it can be made binding. As an opportunity to solve this problem, the libgit2 library was created.



On the hackathon, we will see what opportunities there are for working with Git from Perl programs (and there are, it would seem, quite a few), what they are good for and what are bad, and try to find a solution for the existing problems.



Hackathon will be held at the address: St. Petersburg, ul. Voronezh, 5 .

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Reports

The second day (December 21) will be devoted to the traditional session of the reports. If you have something to share with the community - submit an application soon! There are few reports on the site so far, but there is no need to worry about this - the schedule is traditionally filled in the last days before the conference, and we already have several interesting topics in the store that will soon be announced officially.



The day of the lectures will be held in a room kindly provided by T-Systems : St. Petersburg, line 13 V. 7, the Elizavetinsky business center .

Surprises

There is one more good news: this year we are waiting for a special guest. A real brian d foy , author and co-author of classic Perl books (Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl, Mastering Perl, Programming Perl), author of many CPAN modules, founder of Perl Mongers, winner of the White Camel award and many other regalia, will come to us. Bring books for autographs.



Company REG.RU does not forget about the support of the Perl-community and again acted as a general sponsor.



Full details and latest news - on the event website .



See you at the conference!