Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC), from 2016–2019 called The Perl Conference (TPC), from 2020 on The Perl and Raku Conference, is a series of conferences discussing the
Perl programming language, usually organized under the auspices of
The Perl Foundation
The Perl Foundation (TPF) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in Holland, Michigan. It is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl and Raku (programming language) programming languages through open discussion, collaboration, design, an ...
and
Yet Another Society
The Perl Foundation (TPF) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in Holland, Michigan. It is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl and Raku (programming language) programming languages through open discussion, collaboration, design, a ...
, a "non-profit corporation for the advancement of collaborative efforts in computer and information sciences". The name is an homage to
yacc, "
Yet Another Compiler Compiler".
The first YAPC was held at
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US on June 24 and June 25, 1999. Organizer
Kevin Lenzo assembled 31 different speakers into the schedule on various Perl-related topics. The idea of a low-cost Perl conference quickly spread with a
European version of YAPC established in 2000,
Israel in 2003,
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
in 2004,
Asia and
Brazil in 2005, and
Russia in 2008. The only continents never to have hosted a YAPC are
Africa and
Antarctica.
In 2016, YAPC rebranded itself as The Perl Conference, which is the former name of
O'Reilly Open Source Convention
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) was an American annual convention for the discussion of free and open-source software. It was organized by publisher O'Reilly Media and was held each summer, mostly in Portland, Oregon, from 1999 to ...
(OSCON). As of 2020, it is now calling itself The Perl and Raku Conference to reflect the renaming of Perl 6 to
Raku.
Locations
North America
* 1999:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the second-most populous city in Pennsyl ...
(June 24 – June 25, 1999
YAPC::NA 1999* 2000: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (June 21 – June 23, 2000
YAPC::NA 19100* 2001:
Montréal, Québec, Canada (June 13 – June 15, 2001
YAPC::NA 2001* 2002:
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA (June 26 – June 28, 2002
YAPC::NA 2002* 2003: Canada:
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...
(May 15 – May 16, 2003) (held as YAPC::Canada
YAPC::Canada* 2003: America:
Boca Raton, Florida, USA (June 16 – June 18, 2003
YAPC::NA 2003* 2004:
Buffalo, New York, USA (June 16 – June 18, 2004
YAPC::NA 2004* 2005:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (June 27 – June 29, 2005
YAPC::NA 2005* 2006:
Chicago, Illinois, USA (June 26 – June 30, 2006) 2006
YAPC::NA 2006* 2007:
Houston, Texas, USA (June 25 – June 27, 2007
YAPC::NA 2007* 2008: Chicago, Illinois, USA (June 16 – June 18, 2008
YAPC::NA 2008* 2009: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (June 22 – June 24, 2009
YAPC::NA 2009* 2010:
Columbus, Ohio, USA (June 21 – June 23, 2010
YAPC::NA 2010* 2011:
Asheville, North Carolina, USA (June 27 – June 30, 2011
YAPC::NA 2011* 2012:
Madison, Wisconsin, USA (June 13 – June 15, 2012
YAPC::NA 2012* 2013:
Austin, Texas, USA (June 3 – June 5, 2013
YAPC::NA 2013* 2014:
Orlando, Florida, USA
Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures relea ...
(June 23 – June 25, 2014
YAPC::NA 2014* 2015:
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (June 8 – June 10, 2015
YAPC::NA 2015* 2016: Orlando, Florida, USA (June 20 – June 22, 2016
YAPC::NA 2016* 2017:
Alexandria, Virginia, USA (June 18 – June 23, 2017
The Perl Conference in DC* 2018: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (June 17 – June 22, 2018
The Perl Conference in Salt Lake City* 2019: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (June 16 – June 21, 2019
The Perl Conference in Pittsburgh* 2020: Online (due to
COVID-19) (Wednesday 24th to Friday 26th 2020
Perl and Raku 'Conference in the Cloud'** Replace
TPCiH 2020 HoustonTuesday, planned June 23rd through Saturday, June 27th
* 2022: The Hilton Houston North, USA (June 22rd through June 24th) TPCiH 2022 Houston
Europe
* 2000:
London, England (September 22-September 24, 2000
YAPC::EU 2000* 2001:
Amsterdam, Netherlands (August 2-August 4, 2001
YAPC::EU 2001* 2002:
Munich, Germany (September 18-September 20, 2002
YAPC::EU 2002* 2003:
Paris, France (July 23-July 25, 2003
YAPC::EU 2003* 2004:
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...
(September 15-September 17, 2004
YAPC::EU 2004* 2005:
Braga, Portugal
Braga ( , ; cel-x-proto, Bracara) is a city and a municipality, capital of the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province. Braga Municipality has a resident population of 193,333 inhabitants (i ...
(August 31-September 2, 2005
YAPC::EU 2005 ''Perl Everywhere''* 2006:
Birmingham, England (August 30-September 1, 2006
YAPC::EU 2006* 2007:
Vienna, Austria (August 28–30, 2007
YAPC::EU 2007 ''Social Perl''* 2008:
Copenhagen, Denmark (August 13–15, 2008
YAPC::EU 2008 ''Beautiful Perl''* 2009:
Lisbon, Portugal (August 3–5, 2009
YAPC::EU 2009 ''Corporate Perl''* 2010:
Pisa, Italy
Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the cit ...
(August 4–6, 2010
YAPC::EU 2010 ''The Renaissance of Perl''* 2011:
Riga, Latvia (August 15–17, 2011
YAPC::EU 2011 ''Modern Perl''* 2012:
Frankfurt, Germany (August 20–22, 2012
YAPC::EU 2012* 2013:
Kyiv, Ukraine (August 12–14, 2013
YAPC::EU 2013 ''Future Perl''* 2014:
Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...
(August 22–24, 2014
YAPC::EU 2014* 2015:
Granada, Spain (September 2–4, 2015
YAPC::EU 2015 ''Art+Engineering''* 2016:
Cluj-Napoca, Romania (August 24–26, 2016
YAPC::Europe 2016* 2017:
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
(August 9–11, 2017
The Perl Conference in Amsterdam* 2018:
Glasgow (August 13–17, 2018
The Perl Conference in Glasgow* 2019:
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...
(August 7–9, 2019
PerlCon* 2020:
Amsterdam (August 10-14 2020
Perl & Raku Con in Amsterdam- cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic
Israel
* 2003:
Haifa (May 11, 2003
YAPC::Israel::2003* 2004:
Herzliya (February 26, 2004
YAPC::Israel::2004* 2005: Herzliya (February 17, 2005
YAPC::Israel::2005* 2006:
Netanya
Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between Poleg stream and Wingate I ...
. In 2006, YAPC::Israel became
OSDC::Israel
OSDC::Israel 2006
Russia & Ukraine
* 2008:
Moscow, Russia
Moscow ( , American English, US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia. The city stands on t ...
(May 17–18, 2008
YAPC::Russia 2008 ''May Perl''* 2009: Moscow, Russia (May 16–17, 2009
YAPC::Russia 2009 ''May Perl 2''* 2010:
Kyiv, Ukraine (June 12–14, 2010
YAPC::Russia 2010 ''May Perl + Perl Mova''* 2011: Moscow, Russia (May 14–15, 2011
YAPC::Russia 2011 ''May Perl + Perl Mova''* 2012: Kyiv, Ukraine (May 12–13, 2012
YAPC::Russia ''May Perl''* no event held in 2013, due to YAPC::Europe 2013 taking place in Kyiv
* 2014:
St. Petersburg, Russia (June 13–14, 2014
YAPC::Russia 2014* 2015: Moscow, Russia (May 16–17, 2015
YAPC::Russia 2015* 2017: Moscow, Russia (November 4, 2016) YAPC::Russia 2017
Australia
* The first YAPC::Australia was held as part of the 2004
OSDC in
Melbourne from December 1-December 5, 2004, and has been held jointly thereafter.
South America
These events are held in conjunction with
CONISLI.
* 2006:
Porto Alegre/
RS (April 19-April 22, 2006
YAPC::SA::2006* 2007: Porto Alegre/RS (April 11-April 14, 2007
YAPC::SA::2007* 2008: Porto Alegre/RS (April 17-April 19, 2008
YAPC::SA::2008* 2009: Porto Alegre/RS (June 24-June 27, 2009
YAPC::SA::2009
Brazil
* 2005: Porto Alegre/RS (June 1-June 5, 2005) YAPC::Brasil 2005
* 2006:
São Paulo/SP,
Brazil (November 3-November 5, 2006
YAPC::Brasil 2006* 2007: São Paulo/SP,
Brazil (November 9-November 11, 2007
YAPC::Brasil 2007* 2008: São Paulo/SP,
Brazil (October 18-October 19, 2008
YAPC::Brasil 2008* 2009:
Niterói
Niterói (, ) is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality of the state of Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro in the Southeast Region, Brazil, southeast region of Brazil. It lies across Guanabara Bay facing the city of Rio de Janeiro and forms ...
/RJ,
Brazil (October 30-November 1, 2009
YAPC::Brasil 2009* 2010:
Fortaleza
Fortaleza (, locally , Portuguese for ''Fortress'') is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It belongs to the Metropolitan mesoregion of Fortaleza and microregion of Fortaleza. It is Brazil's 5th largest city and the t ...
/CE,
Brazil (October 25-October 31, 2010
YAPC::Brasil 2010 ''Perl: Solução e Integração de Negócios''* 2011:
Rio de Janeiro/RJ,
Brazil (November 4-November 6, 2011
YAPC::Brasil 2011* 2012: São Paulo/SP,
Brazil (October 19-October 20, 2012
YAPC::Brasil 2012 ''A revolução dos dados''* 2013:
Curitiba/PR,
Brazil (November 15-November 16, 2013
YAPC::Brasil 2013 ''Universo Científico e Perl Hacking''* 2014:
Itapema/SC,
Brazil (September 19-September 20, 2014
YAPC::Brasil 2014 ''Soluções Tecnológicas para Gestão Pública''* 2015:
Taubaté/SP,
Brazil (September 18-September 20, 2015
YAPC::Brasil 2015 ''Perl Community and CPAN''
Asia
* 2004:
Taipei,
Taiwan (March 27-March 28, 2004
YAPC::2004::Taipei* 2005: Taipei, Taiwan (March 26-March 27, 2005) (held as YAPC::Taipei
YAPC::2005::Taipei* 2006:
Tokyo, Japan (March 29-March 30, 2006
YAPC::Asia 2006* 2007: Tokyo, Japan (April 4-April 5, 2007
YAPC::Asia 2007* 2008: Tokyo, Japan (May 15-May 16, 2008
YAPC::Asia 2008* 2009: Tokyo, Japan (September 10-September 11, 2009
YAPC::Asia 2009* 2010: Tokyo, Japan (October 15-October 16, 2010
YAPC::Asia 2010* 2011: Tokyo, Japan (October 14-October 15, 2011
YAPC::Asia 2011* 2012: Tokyo, Japan (September 27-September 29, 2012
YAPC::Asia 2012* 2013: Tokyo, Japan (September 19-September 21, 2013
YAPC::Asia 2013* 2014: Tokyo, Japan (August 28-August 30, 2014
YAPC::Asia 2014* 2015: Tokyo, Japan (August 20-August 22, 2015
YAPC::Asia 2015* 2016: Hokkaido, Japan (09-10 December 2016
YAPC::Hokkaido* 2017: Kansai (3-4 March 2017
YAPC::Kansai 2017* 2017: Fukuoka (30th June - 1st July
YAPC::Fukuoka 2017* 2018: Okinawa (2-3 March 201
YAPC::Okinawa 2018* 2019: Tokyo, Japan (25-26 January 2019
YAPC::Tokyo 2019* 2020: Kyoto, Japan (March 27 - 28 2020
YAPC::Kyoto 2020
External links
YAPC Official SiteYAPC::Europe FoundationYAPC::RussiaYAPC Conference SurveysYAPC::Asia
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