Planning and entertaining

29^th July 2019, Jūrmala

Dear PerlCon attendees and the whole Perl 5 and Perl 6 community,

A part of our Rīga 2019 team is already in Latvia enjoying the Baltic sea in Jūrmala. If you have time around the conference, try planning a short visit there, too.

In this issue:

PerlCon 2020
Schedule
Event map
Sponsors

1. PerlCon 2020

It is time to reveal some plans for the next year. This time, there are two teams who expressed their interest in hosting the next year’s European Perl 5 and Perl 6 Conference. One team is willing to host the conference in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, while our team is working on hosting an event in Limassol, Cyprus. There are not many details to announce yet, but both teams will demonstrate their proposals at the end of Day 2 (Thursday 8^th August), after which the YAPC::Europe representative will start voting among the attendees. Do not miss your opportunity to choose the venue for the next year. Join the conference if you did not do it yet.

2. Schedule

Since the last announce, we made a few more small changes in the conference schedule. Please check it and decide which talks you’d like to visit. If you are a speaker, make sure the time of the talk is good for you.

This year, we will have three keynote talks opening each of the three main days: the talks will be given by Larry Wall, Elizabeth Mattijsen, and Jonathan Worthington.

The rest of the program is divided into three tracks, and cover many topics in both Perl 5 and Perl 6 programming languages, as well and not purely Perl themes such as working with databases, containers, infrastructure, etc.

It is still possible to sign in to Jonathan’s Perl 6 Concurrency and Parallelism workshop on 6^th August. If you already signed in, you should have received instructions on when and where it is exactly located.

3. Event map

As you know, we have prepared a lot of events outside of the main conference program. Now, as we know more about the number of people willing to attend, we have chosen the best locations. Let us list them:

The Pre-pre-conference meeting on 5 August takes place at the open terrace cafe in front of the hotel from 18:00 to 20:30. A waiter will serve drinks and food from the hotel restaurant. You pay for yourself.
The Pre-conference meeting on 6 August will be hosted at the conference venue, next to the main room (Room $), and, if the weather allows, is extended to the inner yard of the hotel from 18:00 to 21:00. The bar will include fizzy drinks, juices, local beer, house wine, gin, vodka, brandy, rum, whiskey. You pay for the drinks yourself.
The Cocktail Party at the end of Day 1 (7^th August, 18:30–20:30) will take place at the Casino on the first floor of the Daugava hotel. The entrance door has two parrots on it. The cocktail party is included in the Extended and Business tickets. If you are a speaker, it is possible to upgrade the ticket.
The Beer Party (7^th August, 20:30–22:30) starts immediately after the Cocktail Party. Access is free for everyone; the location is the same as for the pre-conference meeting: next to the main conference room and the inner yard. There will be a bar installed for us with fizzy drinks, juices, local beer, house wine, gin, vodka, brandy, rum, whiskey (you pay yourself).
The Game Night takes place in the night from 7^th to 8^th August between 22:00 and 02:00. As there were more people willing to attend then we expected, we changed the location. It will now be hosted on the second floor next to the conference rooms @ and %. There will be a few big round tables, for 10 seats each. Changing the location did not change the charming view of the Old Riga, that you can still enjoy!
The Attendees Dinner, there are no changes. It is served at the Beer Cellar (Alus pagrabs) of the Lido Atpūtas Centrs (Lido Leisure Centre) in Rīga on 8^th August from 20:00 to 23:00. From 19:30, there will be a few busses departing from the venue. You can find the bus in front of the main entrance to the hotel. From 21:30, there will be a bus for getting back, looping between Lido and the hotel every 20-30 minutes. The Dinner is included in most ticket plans and can be purchased separately. You can check if you have a Dinner included in your ticket at My PerlCon.
The River Cruise after the third day of the conference (9^th August, 19:00–22:00). The departure place is located just in front of the hotel next to the huge Latvian flag (which was raised again after the winter period on 19^th July). If you don’t have it on your ticket, but you’d like to join, get your place from our shop.

4. Sponsors

Once again, we would like to thank our sponsors who helped to make the conference possible. These are cPanel (Gold sponsor), Booking.com (Silver sponsor), Eligo, Edument, The YAPC::Europe Foundation, The Perl Foundation, Perl 6, Enlightened Perl Organisation, Oetiker+Partner AG, Geekuni, OpenSUSE, Validad, Perceptyx, 123 Reg, DeepText, Shadowcat Systems, Perl Services, Kritika, Black Stories, Looney Labs, MetaCPAN, Perl Maven, and The Perl Shop.

As an attendee, you will be able to meet with the representatives of some of these companies during the conference.

It is still possible to join and become a sponsor. At the moment, our needs include covering the costs of coffee breaks and the video operator team. You can also sponsor one of the free events listed above. Please contact us if you want to help!

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