Perl & Raku Con in Amsterdam 2020 - Cancelled due to Covid-19

Sad news reach us from the Perl & Raku Con in Amsterdam:

Due to COVID-19, the organizers of the conference have agreed to cancel the event. For both safety as well as with the expectation that a new rule closing organized events over 3 people until June in the Netherlands has made the conferene this year untenable. The conference will continue in 2021 (likely to be in August just as this year was scheduled for). We are looking into the possibility of a remote conference sometime this summer in collaboration with the American conference.

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TPRCiC 2020 (The Perl & Raku Conference in the Cloud) by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 29, 2020 at 18:46 UTC
As there will be no (major) Perl conferences this summer, there are plans to host a virtual conference. Read more at the announcement blog post.	[reply]
Re: TPRCiC 2020 (The Perl & Raku Conference in the Cloud) by Tux (Canon) on Mar 29, 2020 at 20:21 UTC
But nothing compares to a physical hug and a beer with friends :( Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn	[reply]
Re^2: TPRCiC 2020 (The Perl & Raku Conference in the Cloud) by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 30, 2020 at 14:41 UTC
OTOH, for those of us who've never had that pleasure, this is a bit of positive news.	[reply]
Re: TPRCiC 2020 (The Perl & Raku Conference in the Cloud) by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Mar 30, 2020 at 07:39 UTC
Has there been any decision yet about what time of day TPRCiC talks will be scheduled for? I'm guessing something like "US east coast business hours", since it would avoid unreasonably early times for US west coast and minimize after-midnight sessions for eastern Europe.	[reply]
Re^2: TPRCiC 2020 (The Perl & Raku Conference in the Cloud) by hippo (Bishop) on Mar 30, 2020 at 08:43 UTC
It's a good question. However, I would like to hope that for an entirely virtual conference such as this it would be decided to schedule talks at all hours. This reduces the chance of speakers, wherever they may be, from having to present in the middle of their night. Further, since every presentation will already be digital there's less extra work involved in making them all available as recordings after the fact so that "attendees" should easily be able to view all talks shortly after they finish. If talks are spread around the clock that means less concurrency as well so your chances of being able to attend all the talks of most interest to you as they happen increase greatly.	[reply]
Re^2: TPRCiC 2020 (The Perl & Raku Conference in the Cloud): Schedule, Streams by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 24, 2020 at 06:46 UTC
The schedule is online at https://tpc20cic.sched.com/. You can edit the timezone on that page (by clicking on it) to match your timezone. Hopefully this reduces confusion. There will be a stream of all the talks on Youtube if you can't/won't register with the conference services. This stream will also later be chopped up into the individual talks to make them available. Joining the conference means booking via Eventbrite. The main chat avenue is Slack, but I'm sure that the usual YAPC irc channel at irc://irc.perl.org/#yapc (web client) and mirrored Telegram chat at https://t.me/perlcon will also be lively.	[reply]

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