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************** 2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *****************

          Yet Another Perl Conference  (YAPC) '99 

            http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/yapc/

           Thursday and Friday, June 24-25, 1999
                           at
                Carnegie Mellon University
                 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


  ** Abstract submission deadline:  May  1, 1999
  ** Registration deadline:         May 15, 1999  (US$60)


Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC) is an inexpensive ($60) perl 
users and developers conference, with a mix of tutorials and 
technical talks.  The conference is set in Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania, and so is relatively accessible from both the East 
and the Midwest.

YAPC began as a grassroots users conference, from discussions 
among Perl Mongers, and has grown from there.  We would like
to invite you to join us for two days of Perl, people, and 
demonstrations, at a price that shouldn't hurt your wallet.  

A number of members of the Perl community are contributing to this
event, including:

   * Larry Wall, on whatever he'd like to talk about :)

   * Peter Braam,     on The InterMezzo Distributed File System
   * Mark-Jason Dominus, with a half-day Regex Tutorial and the
                      Perl Hardware Store
   * Jonathan Eisenzopf, Demystifying XML 
   * Joseph Hall,     on Idiomatic Perl and Object-Oriented Perl
   * Chris Nandor,    on MacPerl and the Elements of the Wild
   * Randal Schwartz, giving a whole-day Llama course on learning 
                      Perl, and Reducing Business Risk using Perl

   * ... and YOU!  See the CALL FOR PAPERS below!

Look to the main web page for more details --
                              http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/yapc/

** Dorm rooms **

A limited number of inexpensive dorm rooms are available at 
Carnegie Mellon, that will be given preferentially to students, 
but more generally on a first-come basis.  This is to further
reduce the cost for those with limited resources, especially 
students, who we are trying to encourage the most.  

You can ask to be considered for dorm space on the Registration 
page, which is available from the main page at the top of this
announcement.

Registration information is available from the main page at
            http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/yapc/


  *********** CALL FOR PAPERS ***********

Potential presenters should submit a 200-300 word abstract to

        lenzo+abstract@cs.cmu.edu

in plain ASCII text or HTML by April 30th for consideration.  
We would like that your materials be available online, but
it is not required.  If you have materials to include in
the proceedings, or course notes, please let us know your
requirements the abstract.  If you have any special presentation
needs, please include them also.

Topics are unlimited, but some suggestions include:

   * Groupware, Agents, and Bots 
   * Perl for Speech and Language 
   * Text and Document Processing 
   * Machine Learning in Perl 
   * HTML, XML, and Markup Languages 
   * CGI and Web programming in Perl 
   * Internet Programming 
   * Database Interation and Access with Perl 
   * Scientific Computing (e.g. with PDL) 
   * Practical Perl Programming 
   * Module guts and usage on any particular Module. 
   * Tutorials of all stripes: Modules, Objects, CPAN 
   * Visionary or position papers on Perl, the past, 
              the present, and the future 
   * Anything cool :) 

Conference fees will be waived for presenters at yapc, so
another way to reduce your costs is to give a good talk
on something you're excited about.


** YAPC '99 **  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/yapc/ ********
***************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ******************