The original author of the YAPC.pm document, which was the original inspiration for this book, was Kevin A. Lenzo, the man who instigated the whole Perl grassroots conference experience with the very first YAPC. Kevin released the document to CPAN, alongside creating the Yet Another Society (YAS) organisation.
A second release was made by Jim Brandt, when the document was taken over by The Perl Foundation and was made available on the TPF Google Code repository. After the 2006 YAPC::Europe in Birmingham, UK, Barbie rewrote the complete document adding many more aspects to all sections of organisation.
However, there are many people beyond the principal authors of that document, who have helped to contribute ideas and experiences for this book. All the previous organisers of all the YAPCs from all around the world, as well as their attendees, have all helped to shape the YAPC story, whether they knew it or not!
Many thoughts and suggestions have been gleened from the YAPC Conference Surveys, which have now been running successfully for YAPC::Europe since 2006.
This book is intended to be a living document of how to organise a YAPC, so that it can grow with the lessons learnt and new ideas from future conferences. If you have any ideas and suggestions for improving the content, please contact Barbie (barbie@cpan.org) with details.
[to be added: photo credits, contributors, technical reviewers]
Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:
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