YAPC::Asia 2006

YAPC::Asia will held in next week at Tokyo, Japan. Yesterday, speakers were listed on the site. Let's look into the members.

Audrey Tang

Audrey Tang (Traditional chinese: 唐鳳) is a Taiwanese free software programmer, best known forinitiating and leading the Pugs project, a joint effort from Haskell and Perl communities to implementthe Perl 6 language.

Pugs project and implementation on Perl 6.

On CPAN, Tang maintains over 100 Perl projects, including the popular Perl Archive Toolkit (PAR), a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool for Perl 5. She is also responsible for setting up smoke test and digital signature systems for CPAN.

Over 100 projects on CPAN.

Being a high school dropout, Tang is a vocal proponent for autodidactism and individualist anarchism.

Vocal proponent for autodidactism and individualist anarchism.

            

• Introduction to Pugs
• Learning Haskell

       

Introduction to Pugs

Started in February 2005, Pugs is an implementation of the Perl 6 language that contains an interpreter based on Haskell and a compiler that targets multiple backends, including Parrot and Haskell. In this talk, Pugs author Audrey Tang presents the design of Pugs and the current state of the project. This talk also covers ways to put Pugs to immediate practical use and the roadmap for future development of Pugs and Perl 6.

I've already heard of the implementation, but I didn't know that she is a woman.

Chia-liang Kao

Chia-liang Kao used to live in the mountains in Taiwan and travels around the world to motivate himself to write svk that allows working offline. He now lives in London and works for Fotango.

Oh, he is like a hsien.

            

• Marrying perl with other languages
• SVK: Version Control without the Headaches

       

Damian Conway

Dr Damian Conway is a professional Perl sensei.

A well-known member of the international Perl community and a widely sought-after speaker and trainer, Damian is also the author of numerous popular CPAN modules, a member of the technical committee for The Perl Conference, a keynote speaker at many Open Source conferences, a former columnist for "The Perl Journal", the author of the books "Object Oriented Perl" (Manning 2000) and "Perl Best Practices" (O'Reilly 2005), and a co-author of "Perl Hacks" (O'Reilly 2006). In 2001 Damian received the first "Perl Foundation Development Grant" and spent 20 months working on projects for the betterment of the world-wide Perl community.

What's "sensei"? Is it Japanese? He wrote many perl books and is a authority or Perl.

Most of his spare time is spent working with Larry Wall on the design of the new Perl 6 programming language.

He settled an IT training company, and designs Perl 6 with Larry.

            

• Perl Best Practices
• Perl 6 Update
• Sufficiently Advanced Technologies

Dave Rolsky

       

Dave Rolsky has worked as a Perl developer since the end of 1998. Currently he is employed bySocialtext, Inc. developing their enterprise wiki application. He has contributed to a number of free software projects including Mason, and co-wrote Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason for O'Reilly, published in 2002.

Mason author.

Ingy döt Net

Ingy döt Net  is the Spiffy Perl Hacker who brought you Inline, YAML,  Kwiki, Spork and other ridiculoustop level namespaces. Lately he has been doing way too much Javascript. He is currently employed bySocialtext who lets him live anywhere in the world, which is exactly where he resides.

Dave and Ingy also employed by Socialtext. Isn't it a interesting company?

Jesse Vincent

Why he spends an awful lot of time on airplanes?

Kang-min Liu

garagebands? coffee machines?

Larry Wall

Writer, Author and Creator of Perl.

Introduction is too simple.

Leon Brocard

An eurohacker .

Marty Pauley

He is from 火星?

We can meet with many lovable geeks next week.