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We are accepting non-paper talks outside of the Science Perl Track. This event is truly hybrid, and a great alternative to travelling. It is also a really a great way of advancing your Perl resume. You will be vetted (we've gotten quite a few spam submissions), but no serious Perl speaker will turned away. The button to submit is at the bottom of the following link, click "Speak at Perl Community Conference, Summer 2025!"
This is a hybrid (in-person and virtual) conference being held in Austin, TX on July 3rd-4th.
Did you miss your chance to speak or wish to speak at the only available Perl Science Track (and get published in the Science Perl Journal)? Or maybe you just can't get enough Perl this summer??? Read on ...
The following lengths will be accepted for publication and presentation:
Science Perl Track: Full-length paper (10-36 pages, 50-minute speaker slot)
Science Perl Track: Short paper (2-9 pages, 20-minute speaker slot)
Normal Perl Track (45-minute speaker slot, no paper required)
Don’t wait! Submit a paper or talk today. All published authors will be presenting their papers at this hybrid (in-person and virtual) 2-day conference being held on July 3-4, 2025 in Austin, TX; and attendance will be free for everyone, but you must be registered and donations are kindly appreciated.
Olaf Alders arranged to have Dave Cross come speak at a meeting of the Toronto Perl Mongers recently, and the video has now been posted on the TPRF channel. Here's the link to the Youtube video: link
Update: Made the URL into a link. And how long have you been visiting this site? Goof.
For a long time, I had a link in my .sig going to Groklaw. I heard that as of December 2024, this link is dead. Still, thanks to PJ for all your work, we owe you so much. RIP Groklaw -- 2003 to 2013.
Years ago, a few people decided during the Perl Toolchain Summit (PTS) that it would be a good idea to join forces, ideas and knowledge and start a group to monitor vulnerabilities in the complete perl ecosystem form core to the smallest CPAN release. The goal was to follow legislation and CVE reports, and help authors in taking actions on not being vulnerable anymore.
That group has grown stable over the past years and is now known as CPANSec
The group has several focus areas, and one of them is channeling CVE vulnerability issues.
In that specific goal, a milestone has been reached:
The CPAN Security Group was authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) on Feb 25, 2025. A CNA assigns and manages CVE identifiers for projects in their scope.
Our scope is vulnerabilities in Perl and CPAN Modules (including End-of-Life Perl versions) found at perl.org, cpan.org or metacpan.org, excluding distributions of Perl or CPAN Modules maintained by third-party redistributors.
CVE is an international, community-based effort to identify, define and catalog publicly disclosed software vulnerabilities. To learn more about the CVE program, visit www.cve.org.
Report Vulnerability
Vulnerabilities should be reported according to the security policy of the affected project.
For more details, see our guide on how to Report a Security Issue in Perl and the CPAN ecosystem.
The plotting functions now use PDL::Graphics::Simple (which facilitates generating the above)
The plotting functions have also had a tidy-up, and now include plotting categorical anova data with stripcharts
It uses the new PDL 2.096+ "lib/*.pd" format so it builds quicker
Any problems, please let us know by opening a GitHub issue, joining the IRC channel (both linked on the PDL::Stats page) or emailing the pdl-general list.
Olaf Alders arranged to have Randal Schwartz come speak at a meeting of the Toronto Perl Mongers recently, and the video has now been posted on the TPRF channel. I've heard some of this history before, but it was really interesting to hear it directly from Randal.
For a long time, I had a link in my .sig going to Groklaw. I heard that as of December 2024, this link is dead. Still, thanks to PJ for all your work, we owe you so much. RIP Groklaw -- 2003 to 2013.
There are a couple of episodes beyond today's (the 1st) up already, so you can binge it if you like. Or, you can keep your cool and just read one per day. I won't tell you how to best enjoy it!
The workshop will take place next year from Monday 12 May to
Wednesday 14 May at the Kolpinghaus in Munich..
The website and the call for papers are already online. We are looking forward to many interesting
presentations!
We are always happy to receive support from sponsors. If you or your
company would like to support the workshop, please contact us. We will
find a way together!
