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OSDC::Israel Open Source Developers' Conference

posted by brian_d_foy on 2005.12.28 19:46

gabor writes "OSDC::Israel::2006 is the Open Source Developers' Conference that is the result of our experience in three years of YAPC::Israel. The conference will take place between 26-28 February, 2006 in Netanya, Israel and feature keynote speaker: Larry Wall and special guest: Audrey "autrijus" Tang.

Before the conference between 21-25 February 2006 we are going to have a Pugs Hackathon with the participation of Autrijus, Larry, gaal, nothingmuch and probably others. If you are interested in joining the hackathon, please contact either Gaal or Gabor.

The list of talks is ready (slightly over 60% of the talks will be in English).

Don't miss the early-bird discounted registration.

This Fortnight on perl5-porters - 12-25 December 2005

posted by rafael on 2005.12.26 15:30

Perl 5 turns 18 and is given some lovely birthday presents, such as Perl 6's switch, smart match and say. Constants get smaller, faster and cheaper. So with all that and more, it's probably time for 5.9.3 to escape from the lab.

News: Perlcast Interview with Jason Stajich

posted by brian_d_foy on 2005.12.21 16:38

jmcada writes "Perlcast interviews Jason Stajich, the President of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation and a core developer for the BioPerl Project.

News: Ponie in transition

posted by KM on 2005.12.21 15:44

Andy Lester writes "Ponie is the project name for Perl 5.12, a bridge between Perl 5 and Perl 6. Ponie will bring Perl 5 to Parrot, the virtual machine at the heart of Perl 6. A project of this size and complexity takes plenty of talent, and plenty of support, to complete."

YAPC::Asia 2006 in Tokyo in March

posted by brian_d_foy on 2005.12.16 20:11

miyagawa writes "Shibuya Perl Mongers are pleased to announce that YAPC::Asia 2006 is now scheduled on March 29-30 in Tokyo. The conference is to be held at Ota City PiO, Tokyo. Registration will open some time in January but start looking for your flights and booking hotels during the conference now. We are also announcing the call for participation for the conference today. We are looking for 20 and 45 minutes presentations, and five minutes Lightning Talks. Please submit your proposal via our web form. Make sure you include a title for your presentation, an abstract, a language of the talk (English or Japanese), and the amount of time that you think you will need for the presentation. Feel free to submit multiple proposals if you want to increase your chance to speak. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2006. We launched a blog so you can keep yourself updated by subscribing its RSS feed. We're looking forward to seeing you in Tokyo!"

Nordic Perl Workshop 2006 Call for papers.

posted by davorg on 2005.12.16 2:00

draven writes "The Nordic Perl Workshop 2006 is scheduled to take place in Oslo, Norway the 15nd and 16th of June. We can already promise great weather and barbeque, now we just need you to make this a memorable workshop by submitting your talk-proposals. Please read the call-for-papers which is in effect now. For more information, visit our website for updates and/or subscribe to our mailing-list by sending an empty mail to nordic-workshop-subscribe@perl.org. Hope to see you in Oslo."

Meeting Announcements: Inside-Out Objects at Perl Seminar NY

posted by davorg on 2005.12.15 6:47

kid51 writes "Inside-out objects have drawn increasing attention in recent years, particularly since Damian Conway wrote about them in Perl Best Practices. Their pros and cons have been extensively discussed in recent Perlmonks threads. Perl Seminar NY, New York City's monthly Perl user group, is pleased to announce that Perlmonk contributor xdg -- known in what is alleged to be real life as David A Golden -- will be speaking on Inside-Out Objects at our Tuesday, December 20 meeting. Details: Perl Seminar NY. Tuesday, December 20, 6:15-8:15 pm. NYPC User Group Office Suite. 481 8 Ave (Ramada New Yorker Hotel building), btw West 34 & 35 Sts, Manhattan. Room 550."

News: Patch to sprintf() Fixes Buffer Overflow

posted by davorg on 2005.12.15 4:20

Andy Lester writes "Perl 5 Porters have released a fix to the sprintf function that was recently discovered to have a buffer overflow in very specific cases. All Perl users should consider updating immediately. Dyad Security recently released a security advisory explaining how in certain cases, a carefully crafted format string passed to sprintf can cause a buffer overflow. This buffer overflow can then be used by an attacker to execute code on the machine. This was discovered in the context of a design problem with the Webmin administration package that allowed a malicious user to pass unchecked data into sprintf. A related fix for Sys::Syslog has already been released."

Call For Pumpking: Do you want a Ponie?

posted by pudge on 2005.12.14 18:19

jesse writes "Two and a half years ago, Fotango announced their sponsorship of the Perl 6 effort, in the form of the "Ponie" project to port the Perl 5 runtime to the Parrot Virtual Machine. For the past year, Nicholas Clark has worked as the pumpking for Ponie as part of his work for Fotango. He's recently moved on from Fotango and it's time for Ponie to do so as well. We're currently interviewing for a new pumpking to take over his role."

This Week on perl5-porters - 5-11 December 2005

posted by rafael on 2005.12.14 12:29

This week had seen the development of the responses of Perl community to the Webmin security hole, with the usual assortment of activity on many other fronts in the advancement of the Perl interpreter. Pod::Simple integration, issues in newer Windows, better OpenVMS support illustrate the discussion diversity.

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