So, I’m back from Granada after attending my second YAPC::EU. It has been four awesome days (including pre-conference event) of Yet Another Perl Conference.

Talks

I attended several talks. Here are the main talks which I attended:

• YAPC::Asia Tokyo Behind The Scenes, Or How We Organize A Conference For 2000 Attendees
• Great Tools Heavily Used In Japan, You Don’t Know.
• Conference Driven Publishing
• Warm and fuzzy text matching
• The Intersection of Code and Art
• OpenStreetMap for Perl Developers
• Teaching and Learning Perl – what I got from “Perl Entrance”
• Whatever, or How I Stopped Worrying and Fell in Love with Perl 6 Operators
• 50 CPAN modules developed in 2 years; my experience as a developer in Japan’s Perl Community
• Data is Evil and Must Be Deleted
• My Journey to Information Retrieval

Here are the talks which I wanted to attend, but didn’t, because of one or the other reason:

• Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6
• qué les hablas mi lenguaje
• What I look for when recruiting Perl developers
• Writing tutorials for Perltuts.com
• Optimize Perl5 code for performance freaks.
• Web development using Perl 6
• OAuth2 and Mojolicious
• Perl in your Pocket
• Problems and advantages in automatization all infrastucture related tasks in ISP
• Monitoring with Nagios and check_mk
• Building bridges – bringing Perl 5 and Perl 6 back together
• Snakes for Camels
• Writing Plack Middleware made simple
• Why Perl 5 {is, isn’t} a Scheme
• Local server based Web Application‎ – such as the Slides-App will be used in this talk!
• Static Code Analysis For Perl
• Carmel: brand new way to manage CPAN dependencies
• How to contribute to perl5 core
• Death to project documentation with eXtreme Programming
• Using Genetic Algorithms in Sound SynthesisDistributed Systems 102: CRDTs for Poets and Perl Hackers
• Handling errors incidentally (no exceptions)
• Postal Codes, Polygons, Perl and Poetry
• Using the new compiler in production
• Net::SSH::Any
• Auto-scaling a heavy teaching load
• Perl and PDF

I learnt something from all of the talks which I attended, so it was a useful conference. But I also felt that there were too many talks & days were too long.

Also, I saw that quite a few 50 min talks were finished in 35-40 min (including my own talk), so there was lot of extra time. I’d like to suggest that it’d be better to have three time duration slots: 20 min, 40 min & 50 min.

My own talk

Here is the link of my talk slides : https://speakerdeck.com/upasana20/introduction-to-metaobject-protocol

I’d like to hear feedback of my audience, so if you have any feedback then please let me know. Sadly, there is no video this time!

I’d like to thank these people for reviewing my talk & giving me their suggestions:

• Stevan Little
• Tobias Oetiker
• Himanshu
• Christian Rovner

Also, I’d like to thank Damian Conway for his Instantly Better Presentations talk. I tried to take his tips very seriously.

Food

Food was mostly good in Granada. It was easy to find vegetarian food. Rice dish which was served at Gala dinner was awesome, I loved it. On the last day, we had our dinner with Larry Wall & Gloria Wall.

People

Here are the people I met for the first time:

• Dave Cross
• Gabor Szabo
• Mark Keating
• Tina Müller
• Uri Bruck
• Roland
• Mercedes
• Andrew Solomon
• Xavier Noria
• Jose Luis Martinez
• Lukas Mai
• Lee Johnson
• Dotan Dimet
• Aaron Crane
• Yaroslav
• Racke
• Andrew Nugged
• Roy Struut
• Mani or Money (don’t know the correct spelling)
• Enrico
• And many more, but my terrible memory!

It was great meeting so many people, please stay in touch!

Talk surveys

I’ve completed surveys of all the talks which I attended & I’d suggest everyone to do the same. It will make the speakers happy & help them improve.

Hopefully see you next year in Cluj

Next YAPC::EU will be in Cluj. Last year, I attended Cluj.pm meeting & it was the best event I’ve attended so far, so I’m really looking to the next YAPC::EU 🙂