From: johndoc@shore.net (John Dockery)
Subject: CONFERENCE: Perl Conference 2.0 - Call for Participation
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:43:42 GMT

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PERL CONFERENCE 2.0 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
August 17-20, 1998
Fairmont Hotel
San Jose, California

Sponsored by O'Reilly & Associates 

URL  http://conference.perl.com/

Important Due Dates 

Working code and abstracts: 30 April 1998
Papers chosen for presentation:  29 May 1998
Final code and edited manuscripts: 22 June 1998   

Organizing  Committee 

Program Chair
Chip Salzenberg, director of The Perl Institute

Program Committee
Tom Christiansen, Perl author and trainer
Dick Hardt, CEO of ActiveState Tool Corp, publisher of Perl for Win32
Doug MacEachern, author of mod_perl 
Tim O'Reilly, president of O'Reilly & Associates
Jon Orwant, publisher of The Perl Journal
Gurusamy Sarathy,Perl Internals and Win32 expert
Randal Schwartz, Perl author and trainer
Nathan Torkington, Perl author and trainer
Larry Wall, creator of Perl

Overview 
The second annual O'Reilly Perl Conference will be held August
17-20, 1998 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California  The
conference will feature two days of tutorials followed by a two
day conference.  The conference will include sessions for
submitted papers on practical and experimental uses of Perl;
invited  presentations; daily  Q and A sessions with leading
Perl developers and trainers; a by-invitation Developers
Workshop; and nightly user-organized Birds-of-a-Feather sessions
for special interest groups.

Practical Presentations  
In the practical spirit of Perl, we seek papers that describe
how you are using Perl right now for work or play, and how your
experience and your code can help others. This is not a
traditional solicitation for academic papers.  While we look
forward to papers on new and useful extensions, applications,
and tools, we are most interested in receiving papers that show
Perl hard at work, saving time, money, and headaches for you and
your organization.  We welcome submissions that work under both
Unix and non-Unix systems, such as Win32.

Subjects on which we invite papers include but are not limited to:

* Automation of core operations of an organization
* Creation of dynamic content on the world wide web, and
   administration of web servers
* Database maintenance, usage, and customized reporting
* Integration of -- 'glue' for -- incompatible systems
* Administration of large networks (100+ computers)
* Development of large projects in Perl: practical experience
   with specific practices and coding standards
* Support of software development in other languages
* Security and cryptography
* Games and diversions
* Financial applications
* Scientific programming
* Graphics
What, How, and Where to Submit 
Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts (3-5 pages or
1500-2500 words) of their work, not including optional figures,
references, and code samples. If you choose to send a full paper
(not to exceed 20 pages), you must still send an extended
abstract.  All submissions are held in the highest
confidentiality as a matter of policy.

In the Perl spirit of mutual cooperation, open solutions with
freely redistributable source code are very strongly preferred.  

If source code for your work cannot be made readily available, 
please specify so in your submission.

Each submission must include:

a. The title of the paper 
b. The names of all authors with their affiliations
c. Name and complete contact information for the primary contact 
   (paper mail and email addresses, fax, URL, day and evening 
   phone numbers)
d. An extended abstract as detailed above
e. A short abstract of the paper (100-200 words)

All submissions will be acknowledged upon receipt.  You may
submit via email, post, or fax.  Electronic submissions are
strongly preferred. The format of electronic submissions should
be plain ASCII, POD, troff with standard or freely-available
macros, LaTeX, or HTML.  Optional PostScript images may also be
included. Proprietary word processor formats should not be
used.

Extended abstracts should be sent to pc98submissions@perl.org.
Email inquiries should be sent to pc98questions@perl.org.
Postal and fax submissions should go to:

The Perl Institute
Attention:  Chip Salzenberg
3665 E. Bay Drive
Suite 204-A
Largo, FL  33771-1990
Fax:  813/535-2577

Cash Prizes  
O'Reilly and Associates will award six prizes of $1000 U.S. each
to authors of the best papers in six categories, as judged by
the program committee.  The winners will be announced at the
conference.  The prize categories are:

* Best new module (module must not have been published before 
   February 1 1998)

* Best system administration tool (with special consideration for
   cross-platform administration)

* Best software development tool

* Best web application

* Best end-user application (excluding those delivered via 
   the world wide web)

* The Larry Wall Award for Practical Utility 

Developers Workshop 
Tuesday, August 18
9:00am - 5:00 pm

Led by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, this one-day
workshop will focus on the organization and future
direction of Perl's development. The specific content will
reflect the position papers received.  Please send a one
page position paper to workshop@wall.org by Wednesday, July1. 
Acceptances will be confirmed by July 15.

Attendance is limited to Perl Conference 2.0 attendees and
is based on acceptance of a position paper.

Registration Information
Complete conference and registration information will be
available in mid-May.  Keep checking the conference web
site for the latest information:

http://conference.perl.com.


About O'Reilly & Associates  
Sponsor of the Perl Conference, O'Reilly & Associates is
the leading publisher of books for Unix, X, the Internet,
and other open systems, as well as a pioneer in online
publishing. We also publish the leading web server for
Windows NT and Windows 95, and are defining new paradigms
for how to develop and sell software on and over the
Internet. For more information about O'Reilly & Associates,
visit our web site:  http://www.oreilly.com/.








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