YAPC::Europe 2008 - Survey Results

The following survey results are a simple presentation of the raw data. No attempt has been made to analyse the data and compare with previous years. See forthcoming PDFs for more in depth analysis.

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Demographics (required)

These questions will help us understand who our attendees are.

Attendees

Count	Description
192	Responded
94	No Response
286	Total
67%	Response Percentage

Age Band:

Count	Description
1	under 20
47	20 - 29
93	30 - 39
43	40 - 49
9	50 - 59
1	60 and over

Job Type:

If your position covers many roles, please base this on your most senior responsibility:

Count	Description
17	CEO/Company Director/Senior Manager
0	Non-Technical Manager
13	Technical Manager
16	Technical Architect/Analyst
96	Developer
17	Engineer
11	SysAdmin
4	Student
8	Lecturer/Teacher/Trainer
1	Human Resources
3	Researcher
1	Unemployed
6	Other

If 'Other' please enter your professional job role or title:

+ Consultant
Fix-o-tron
Freelance Translator
Information Manager
MScEE,BBA, consultant
QA Engineer
Senior Claims Advisor (Marine)
Technical Director - hence tech manager -and- architect -and- developer -and- sometimes PM

Industry:

Count	Description
1	Automotive
12	Education
2	Engineering
7	Finance
5	Government
70	IT Services
0	Legal
4	Media/Entertainment
7	Medical/Healthcare
1	Logistics
3	Retail
16	Telecommunications
12	Travel
38	Web
1	Property
10	Research
1	Unemployed
12	Other

If 'Other' please enter your industry sector:

all of them! this should be a multiple. OK, let's say it services, web, entertainment, telecommunications
Bio Tech
Bioinformatics
Biotech
chip industry
Communication
Fashion
Insurance Broking
Internet
Marketing
Selfemployed with different tasks in parallel
Software Development
Software/Virtualization

Region:

Please note this is the region you were a resident in, prior to attending the conference.

Count	Description
36	Denmark
19	Scandinavia
35	UK / Ireland
72	Western Europa
9	Eastern Europa
6	Southern Europa
7	United States / Canada
9	Asia / Australaisa
0	South America
1	Africa

The Perl Community, YAPCs & Workshops

These questions will help us understand our attendees involvement in the Perl community.

How do you rate your Perl experience?

Count	Description
2	I am new to Perl
15	I have used Perl a little
95	I have used Perl a lot
82	I am a Perl expert

How many previous YAPCs have you attended?

Count	Description
67	This was my first YAPC
352	YAPC::Europe
84	YAPC::NA
18	YAPC::Asia
9	YAPC::Australia / OSDC::Australia
10	YAPC::Israel / OSDC::Israel
3	YAPC::Russia
0	YAPC::SA / YAPC::Brazil

How many Perl Workshops have you attended?

Count	Description
74	Never attended one
24	Austrian Perl Workshop
27	French Perl Workshop
118	German Perl Workshop
11	Italian Perl Workshop
55	London Perl Workshop
35	Netherlands Perl Workshop
78	Nordic Perl Workshop
7	Portuguese Perl Workshop
5	Ukrainian Perl Workshop

Do you plan to attend a future YAPC/Workshop?

Count	Description
163	Yes
25	Maybe
4	Don't Know
1	No

If 'No', could you tell us why?

Particularly if this is your first YAPC, we would like to understand why you would not be able or interested in attend another event like it.

For some reason the (London) Workshops always clash with a previous engagement. I plan to attend one day, when it doesn't :)
I was there as a sponser and participating at the jobfair. I'm not an IT guy, so the workshops are not for me.
I would like to participate again, but most likely I would have to travel abroad and have my employer fund the trip.
Let me answer on behalf of 5 persons I know who came to a Perl YAPC/Workshop, never to return again in such a conference. They were all Perl users. They all found that these conferences are, to a large extent, more for people working *on* Perl, rather than people working *with* Perl. The shock was such, that they simply didn't come back.

Are you a member of a local Perl Mongers user group?

Count	Description
126	Yes
66	No

If 'No', do you plan to find one or start one?

Count	Description
10	Yes
21	Maybe
18	Don't Know
27	No

What others areas of the Perl Community do you contribute to?

Count	Description
50	I have a use.perl journal
79	I use PerlMonks
61	I contribute to other Perl forums
63	I contribute to Perl mailing lists (eg P5P, Perl QA, etc)
105	I'm a CPAN Author
36	I'm a Perl project developer (eg Perl6, Parrot, Catalyst, TAP, etc)
14	I'm a CPAN Tester
23	other ...

active member of Paris.PM
comp.lang.perl.misc; #p5p/#perl
contribute to our Perl Mongers site
debian-perl group!
freebsd ports
http://perl-nachrichten.de, http://perl-magazin.de
I am user of perl not currently a developer
I blog about Perl
I donate money, organize Perl workshops and Perl Mongers meetings
I have a Perl blog
I organize the Italian Perl Workshop
I speak at conferences and organize a few (like next year's YAPC::EU O:-)
I suck!
IRC
IRC! blog that sucks less than use.perl!
newsgroups
none
organizer of Perl Workshop
perl5 comitter
TPF/YEF member

YAPC::Europe 2008

Regarding YAPC::Europe 2008 in Copenhagen specifically, please answer the following as best you can.

When did you decide to come to this conference?

Count	Description
77	I'm now a regular YAPC::Europe attendee
33	After YAPC::Europe::2007 in Vienna
0	After joining Facebook event
27	After seeing promotions online/in the press
19	I was nominated to attend by manager/colleague
37	other ...

4 months before
After a friend told me YAPC::Europe::2007 was so cool :)
After YAPC::2006, I knew I'd attend YAPC::EU again some time. I missed 2007, so here I was
Company I work for would pay for the trip
Member of Copenhagen.pm
Have wanted to for a long time, but never really able to
I live in Copenhagen
I was asked to publish
I was informed by my collegue who participated in the jobfair before
Invitation
Just felt like it
Mailing list messages
Nordic Perl Workshop
Planned to attend another YAPC for years now.
Recommended by a friend
Recommended by DKUUG/SSLUG
Saw that the timings were in line with my vacations
Tried to go to YAPC since about 5 years. I manged it this year. Yeah!
Wanted to see what it was like after going to YAPC::NA
When I found out it was a local event
when I had to cancel going to YAPC::Europe::2007
When I learned it was going to be in Copenhagen
When I saw I can do it
When I saw it on the Interwebs
When it was announced to be in Copenhagen
When we became a sponsor
Word of mouth

Were you a speaker?

Count	Description
99	No
37	No, but I have spoken before at similar conferences
46	Yes, and I have spoken before at similar conferences
10	Yes, and it was my first time as a speaker

Note that "similar conferences" includes other YAPCs, as well as Linux, Open Source or large technical events such as workshops.

If you weren't a speaker, would you consider speaking at a future conference?

Count	Description
86	Yes
19	No
36	Ask me later

What was your motivation for coming?

Count	Description
84	the list of speakers
79	the quality of the talks scheduled
38	to be a speaker
117	to meet with Perl/project co-contributors
154	to socialise with Perl geeks
45	to meet Larry Wall
48	to meet Damian Conway
73	to see Copenhagen
16	other ...

Because I have attended all previous YAPC Europe
Become part of the community
Curiosity
FUN in general, gathering new ideas
Headhunting
Learn something
Negotiate about bugs & features with authors, and about other things I need and plan to do
Tempting tutorials!
The fact that it was local and cheap, good value for money
The subjects covered by the talks
To buy things at the auction and at the O'Reilly bookstand
To participate at the jobfair
To see other YAPCs
To visit a YAPC "near" me
Work paid for it and it's fun, plus and incidentally I get to meet other Perl hackers
YAPC is just fun :)

What aspects of the conference do you feel gave value for money?

Count	Description
170	the talks / speakers
9	the conference bag
54	the tshirt
9	the job fair
103	the conference dinner
100	the conference venue
69	the city of Copenhagen
61	the hallway track
127	the attendees
16	other ...

Bag? which bag?!?
Beer
BOFs
Damian
Larry / Damian
Lunch
Metro
The attendees, the attendees, your great job as an organizer
The catering / coffee / lunches
The food
The pre-conference meeting
The Tattooed Widow
Tutorials
Which conference bag?

Did you have holiday planned around your conference attendance?

Count	Description
99	I came just for the conference
12	several days before only
16	1 day before only
24	several days before and after
22	1 day after only
16	several days after only

Were there any talks you want to see, but missed??

Count	Description
90	Yes
93	No

If 'Yes', which talks did you miss?

The following are based on the number of mentions each talk got in all the submitted comments.

Count	Description
13	Juerd Waalboer - Unicode Best Practices
9	Aaron Crane - Faster Regexes: What to do when text matching is your bottleneck.
9	JJ - The Camel and the Snake
8	Jesse Vincent - Step 3: Prophet - A peer to peer replicated property database
8	Smylers - HTML 5: What's that all about?
8	Paul Johnson - Effective Code Coverage
7	Barbie - Understanding Malware
7	Mike Fragassi - Perl Logging Practices
7	Dave Cross - Proud to Use Perl
7	Jesse Vincent - Everything but the secret sauce
6	Leo Lapworth - Evolving Architecture - Further
6	Smylers - When MySQL Bites: Quirks to Watch Out For
6	Edmund von der Burg - Modifying databases - changing the schema in a controlled way
6	Philippe Bruhat - Perl (secret) operators
6	Abigail - Regexp::Common, the next generation
5	Adam Kennedy - Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong... Again
5	Dave Cross - Ye Compleat History of Ye Perle Mongers of Olde London Towne (Part 1)
5	Chia-liang Kao - Branch Management with SVK
5	Nuno Carvalho - Is Your Script Fast Enough
5	Dmitry Karasik - IO::Lambda - async I/O shouldn't be that complex
4	Marcus Ramberg - Building Catalyst apps on the Amazon Web Service Platform
4	Chia-liang Kao - prototype::signatures,
4	Patrick Michaud - Building Compilers with the Parrot Compiler Toolkit
4	Abigail - Regexp mini tutorial: Character Classes
4	H.Merijn Brand - Speed up Text::CSV_XS
4	Nadim Khemir - AsciiO version 1.0
4	Adam Kennedy - Tiny
4	Patrick Michaud - Rakudo: Perl 6 on Parrot
4	Léon Brocard - Working in the cloud
4	Mark Overmeer - From XML Schema to Application
4	Tara Andrews - 101011 manuscripts: Perl and the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa
3	Jonathan Rockway - Moose Introduction
3	Marcus Ramberg - Web Services with OAuth
3	Mike Astle - Profiling Modules - A Survey
3	Jonathan Worthington - Putting Types To Work In Perl 6
3	Léon Brocard - 10 modules I haven't yet talked about
3	Adam Bartosik - do { "TDD and refactoring" } or die "trying"
3	Wolfgang Laun - Generate and Execute: A Paradigm for Perl Programs
3	JJ - Perl at the Microsoft Scripting Games 2008
3	Erwan Lemonnier - Pragmatic Contract Programming in Perl
2	Matt Trout - DBIx::MasterClass
2	All Perl 6 talks,
2	Herbert Breunung - WxPerl beyond Frames and Buttons
2	Daniel Ruoso - Perl 6 is just a SMOP
2	brian d foy - Indexing BackPAN
2	Adam Kennedy - Strawberry Perl - Achieving Win32 Platform Equality
2	Lars Jorgensen - Making (large) legacy systems beautiful
2	Michael Zedeler - Stream oriented processing with DSlib
2	Thomas Klausner - CPANTS
2	Jonathan Rockway - Describing classes with Ernst
2	Roman Parparov - Computer working by itself - Beautiful, isn't it
2	Thomas Klausner - die Perl, die!
2	Philippe Bruhat - Messing with Git History using Git::FastExport
2	Chris Williams - Rough Guide to CPAN Testing
2	Steffen Mueller - Application deployment and dependency management with PAR
1	Dave Cross - Perl in RPM-Land
1	mtm - Low maintenance data integration (ETL)
1	Mark Overmeer - CPAN6 progress
1	Stefan Hornburg - Interchange - The Open Source Online Shop Platform
1	Lars Dieckow - From an idea to CPAN
1	Adam Kennedy (Alias) - Strawberry Perl
1	Alex Kapranoff - Perl inside Nginx
1	Andrew Shitov - How to make Google Books at home
1	Matt Trout - Elegant^Elegant: Web application metaprogramming with Reaction
1	Strawberry Perl - Achieving Win32 Platform Equality
1	Uri Bruck - Perl in Software Art
1	Darko Obradovic - CoSAIR.org - Making of a Game AI Programming Platform
1	Jeremiah Foster - The debian - CPAN interface
1	Alberto Simões - TPF Grants Committee,
1	Andrew Johnson - Asynchronous Distributed Job Processing with Helios
1	Yusuke Kawasaki - DOM manipulation by Gainer/Wiimote over HTTP
1	Josh McAdams - Open Flash Chart and Perl

There are always conflicts in the schedule, as it's difficult to know what everyone would like to see. However, if you could list a few talks that you missed, it would give speakers an idea whether they would be worth updating their talks for furture events.

Where there any speakers not present you were hoping would be at the conference?

Count	Description
48	Yes
128	No

If 'Yes', which speakers?

The following are based on the number of mentions each speaker got in all the submitted comments.

Count	Description
14	Audrey Tang, Mark Jason Dominus
5	Yuval Kogman
4	Michael Schwern, Tim Bunce
3	Randal Schwartz, Marty Pauley, chromatic, Greg McCarroll, Yves Orton
2	"Mock" aka Will Whitaker, Ingy, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
1	Sam Vilain, Johan Vromans, Allison Randal, Richard Foley, Simon Cozens, Leopold Toetsch, Dave Rolsky, Lincoln Stein, Aligator Decartes, Tom Christiansen, Nat Torkington, Gisle Aas, Graham Barr, Paul Kulchenko, Nicolai Langfeldt, Michael Schilli, Jeff Horwitz, Ken Williams, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Chip Salzenberg, Paul Fenwick, Jonathan Rockway, Stevan Little

What kinds of talks would you prefer at future conferences?

Count	Description
13	More beginner level talks
21	More intermediate level talks
43	More expert level talks
89	It's about right
24	No preference

Are there any topics you would specifically like to see featured?

- localisation and internationalisation
- high performance computing
- security
- fast string matching
- advanced regular expressions
A beginner's track
More serious talks
A session for "Rookie Lightning Talks" and possible a 45 minute block with several 10 minute talks for first time speakers. Need a real beginner track, including the usual topics like how to build a module for CPAN. The speakers can change every year, but these simple topics should endure as they can be very important at the right point in a programmers life.
Although I prefer expert level talks, I'd really like to see a beginner level track - not for me, I'll probably attend no matter which talks, but for attracting perl "novices" who feel scared to go at the moment.
Beginners Track is a good idea, but as many attendees are experts it would be also nice to learn about teaching perl
Best/Worst Practices
Making CPAN modules - as there are now several ways to build one and META.yml is still developing, module-beginners need help with that
Corporate Perl for next years YAPC::Europe sounds interesting.
Distributed programming with perl tools
Examples of big, real life applications composed from "mainstream" components (Catalyst, DBIx::Class, ...) - architectural decisions, naming conventions, ..
Generating code during runtime. Emulating macros. Opcode hacking.
I would like to see more experts making intermediate/expert level talks, rather than fun talks.
I would prefer more in-depth talks instead of beginner talks - or in addition to!
Interfacing with other programming languages.
Introductions to other programming languages, from a Perl point of view.
Mapping/Geospatial related?
Mashups
More advanced Web topics
More functional programming
more success stories, and less perl syntax talks
More talks about testing
MULDIS D
Natural Language Processing, PDL
None that spring to mind - a wide range of ideas usually get covered. Maybe a longer Ovid-testing presentation?
OO - What are objects, classes, prototypes and how to use them
Open Source Community Management
Parellelization
Computing clouds and clustering
Perl use in system administration
(I hope forthcoming YAPC in Lisbon, as being dubbed "Corporate Perl", may cover some of this),
in the same vein, Perl use for Monitoring (like by Nagios/Munin, SNMP etc. plug-ins),
Perl use in Engineering (does anyone do this at all? because I haven't found any modules on CPAN and once proposed to Adam Kennedy a name space like Eng or so)
Perl use in Numerical Analysis (again, does anyone do this? probably number crunching requires compiled code anyway?)
Perl use for (engineering, physics) Data Analysis,
as well as for visualization (e.g. interpolation, approximation, curve fitting, line fairing, SVG)
Perl for Webapps (I'm fed up of all the RAILs, J2EE, PHP Hype in this area and Perl has completely disappeared from the radar of web developers, and if still known is looked down at very condescendingly, thought of as not a proper programming language)
perlguts, non-trivial xs, crazy things like Devel::Declare
POE
more on databases, rather than introductions to DBIx and such
Practical approaches to:
1. mod_parrot configuration and optimization
2. mod_parrot/rakudo memory analysis and optimization
3. mod_parrot/rakudo best practices
4. conformity in the community about recommended standard approaches (patterns/best practices), and leaving going timtowdi, for those who have a special need only.
5. enterprise standards for perl
6. marketing perl, clean up perls appearance to the world
Scalability and high volume web sites
svn vs git, applications
System Admin tracks
templates - current alternatives + future directions
web frameworks - ditto
The announced topic "Corporate Perl" of the next YAPC will be very interesting!
The topics featured were very interesting, it was a right mix of things. Hope to see more of such diversity next year.
unusual use of perl (bioligy, simulations, AI ..)
Using Catalyst or Jifty, OO design, more focus on practical stuff rather than theoretical/structural stuff
XS

How do you rate the conference?

How would you rate your overall satisfaction of the following areas of the conference?

Choices	1	2	3	4	5
Content of the talks	84	93	9	-	-
Efficiency of the schedule	109	68	10	1	-
BOFs	8	18	29	2	-
Social events	80	76	11	2	-
Parking	14	2	3	3	-
Facilities	93	73	10	1	-
Food service	83	76	22	8	-
Web site	89	77	19	2	-
Registration process	112	61	7	1	-
Hotel options	27	65	33	9	-
Staff	133	43	1	-	-
Overall event experience	122	65	2	-	-
Value for price	136	38	6	1	-

Key:
1 = Very Satisfied
2 = Somewhat satisfied
3 = Somewhat un-satisfied
4 = Very un-satisfied
5 = N/A

Would you like to expand on any strong views?

Show/Hide submitted comments

"Value for price" is a relative concept in Copenhagen - everything's so expensive, but that's got nothing to do with YAPC::Europe. I had a good time and plan to attend the next one as well.
(I was a speaker, so didn't pay for the conference, but the value/price of Copenhagen in general is not great.)
- The web site lacks too much for a conference that pretend to be professional.
- The conference fee (individual rate) was too high.
1) I think that 30 min per talk is not enough. Most talks were very light without going deep into the matter at hand.
2) Copenhagen was very expensive.
1. it was excellent that there was sponsored lunch - not only it saved time, but also helped to socialize - almost everyone eating together
A diner for 300 people could have more variance, more to choose from.
About the website: why did you write the dates in MM/DD/YY format? Dates in this format are difficult for the majority of YAPC::EU's attendees, who are more used to DD/MM/YY or DD/MM/YYYY dates. And the best format, of course, is YYYY-MM-DD (with a 4-digit year), which everyone understand, even the few people from across the Atlantic. Another possibility would be to use the month's full English name.
Again, no printed proceedings available.
web site: I missed detailed info how to go to the venue
talks: I want talk alternatives when Larry Walk is talking (no keynote)
Altogether: a very pleasant experience.
As a vegetarian I had a though time finding something acceptable to eat (the university staff helped out a lot). Please think of us next time (I fear Lissabon is even more carnivore-oriented as Copenhagen).
As a vegeterian, I disliked the lunched utterly: sandwich with cucumber, with tomato, with lettuce, with shrimps (WTF?). Not tasty. Vegetarians can eat cheese, egg and many sorts of sauces. The attendees dinner had nothing special for vegetarians (yeah, vegetables and potatoes, wow, I'm so honoured).
Power outlets!!! So many people could not use their notebook because of the lack of sufficient numbers of power outlets.
Good bag: there wasn't one. Pity.
Schedule: everything was 30 minutes. Speakers could hardly go deep into their subject. Next time please also 45 and / or 60 minute items.
Directions: it was not clear where the venue was (the entrances to the building, what building exactly).
Schedule: maybe next year a beginner's track? And some rooms extra for hackathons, BOFs and other meetings.
Ravelinen: just Carlberg's beer was no fun. Those idiots had Leffe on tap and refused to sell it to us, it was just for the "real clients" inside the restaurant. Morons, that's what they are.
At launch the website was just a default ACT install - no design or stylesheet was applied. This unfortunately does not portray a good image of YAPC, especially when compared to Perl's competitors. Now of course I realise that the majority of programmers are not designers, but if the organisers do not have these skills then asking for help on use.perl.org or the conferences mailing list may have helped. See http://conferences.yapcasia.org/ya2008/ for an example of what can be done with ACT.
The food service was fantastic - such a good idea to provide catering on-site. This meant that people were not disappearing to the pub etc and so ensured that the afternoon talks started on time with no latecomers. I would love to see this repeated at future YAPCs.
Don't put so much stress on beer.
food service was not good for vegetarians. I was lucky as I do eat fish and could find food by looking through the bags but I know several vegans had a hard tome and even I had to pick the bits of meat out of the salad.
hotels: Copenhagen is an expensive city, not you guys' fault ;-)
I had a problem with the venue change for the tutorials after the conf. Did not get the email that brian foy said had been sent out on Friday. I really think that when a change like that is made at short notice you should have made certain that the registered attendees were aware, probably by announcing it in the conference platform. Just updating the News page on the wiki was not enough - there were guys on both days who were inconvenienced because they just did not [or were unable to] look at that page. That's the only reason for my 'staff' rating above; other than that I thought that you guys were great ;-)
But my overall impression of the week was good enough to override these gripes.
For Speakers: It would be great to have an extra screen to watch for those whose notebooks can only show ouput either at their TFT or the external output. (No, i won't switch to windows =)
I did not have any idea of what to expect from the conference, and I would not have taken it if it weren't in the Copenhagen area. I must admit, I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality and overall atmosphere :)
I especially liked the free lunch bags. :)
I feel the conference lacked enough communication during the year.
Also, registration opened way too late.
I also felt the absence of selected hotels by the organizers so that most people could be together at an affordable place.
i found 30 mins was a little short for the talks, a lot of the time the speakers had to rush to finish everything they wanted to cover. perhaps 10 or 15 mins longer would have helped.
I really liked the fact there was a 10 minute break after each talk, and that all the talks were of the same length. This greatly reduced the number of people moving around during the talk. OTOH, having only one length of slot available made it harder for speakers to prepare. Sometimes, you need at least 45 minutes, or it turns out that 20 minutes is enough.
I scored the 'social events' very negatively, due to the really poor auction this year. I will come back to that in a separate email - this text box is too small to list all the grieves.
I was quite irritated by the silly games, both at the dinner and before the auction, to give away a few trinkets. It felt like being held hostage by an annoying salesman. Time at a conference like YAPC is extremely precious, so wasting it is really a shame.This is definitely not what I came to YAPC for.
I realize that it is quite difficult for the organizers to deal with that kind of problem though.
I would have liked some conventions with hotels, like they did in Vienna (and Copenhagen is more expensive than Vienna). Moreover, I think that directions could have been better in the web site: putting a map without some clear indications of where to take the Metro, where to go, etc. makes all the attendant do the same work by their own. And no, the wiki's no help here, because all of us did it at the very end :D
I would have liked the key talks to have been held during the day - not in the morning were I was unable to attend.
Internet access was poor.
Wanted to buy stuff in the auction, but it took too long and I lost interest and left even before it actually got started.
It sucks that year-after-year attendees continue to have chronic wireless problems, either no network ar a terribly overloaded network.
I realize that this isn't a very solvable problem since the network comes with the venue and setting up custom network hardware would be expensive, but still.
Make it easy for companies to pay for several attendees.
Put a level on the talks to give a heads up - specially about beginner stuff.
No, I won't mention the wireless net. Promise.
No, thank you.
not just 30 min talks.
no lightning talks from regular speakers (you know who you are)
auction way way to long
On the webbsite, the location and map links in the navigation to the left should be merged.
Overall an excellent conference.
Parking in CPH was somewhat complicated, but that's my own responsibility, being aware that the conf was in a major city. Hotels w/parking are rare, it seems. But it wasn't a big problem. YAPC was excellent.
Parking was excellent! Never had trouble find a space, and all for free! However, there was absolutely no parking information available on the webpage, which is essential information for local attendees.
Registration was impressively efficient. Even though I registered the day before the conference after bank hours, the process was registered correctly, and a badge was ready and printed.
Having just attended the $2,000 OSCON, a registration fee of 900DKK including lunch & dinner is impressive value for money. Keep it up!
Please make a reliable and sufficient WiFi available. In these times, more and more talks will depend on available access.
Price for conference was ok.
Price for hotels was amazingly high.
Website was cluttered and confused.
Not enough time for BOFs to be truly effective.
Quite good conference, except for the wireless coverage and the lack of a printed programme.
Some talks were very good, others a waste of time. Some speakers don't have anything to say or don't know how to present it (e.g. reading slides or white text on red background on a blurry projector).
Showing pictures of the hotel rooms and facilities would be of great help.
Social event needed a microphone or other way of greatly amplifying the signal-to-noise ratio of the french guy making competitions for gifts.
Some of the salads sucked!
The "perl culture" bits of the conference w/o any technical content get tiresome quickly.
The auction has been terrible. Too slow and boring. All those books and silly stuff should really be out of the auction.
The auction needs to be rethought. it was long and there was a lot of boring content.
The auction went very wrong. Undressing contests, totally boring BooK's ugly T-shirts sale and the whole length of the event. Please, bring Greg McCarroll next time to be the auctioneer :)
The biggest problem with the venue was lack of power points, for people with laptops. The assumption was that they would exist, so a lot of people never managed to take notes.
The BOFs were mostly ignored from the schedule, and no opportunity was made to make them more visible for new attendees.
No easily accessible venue map, and the 2.07 (?) rooms were too far away from the main rooms.
The conference signs weren't too perceptive - they should have been bigger or more often placed. The wireless network left something to be desired.
The number of Perl conferences is increasing, and this is great!
Perhaps now is the correct timing to expand: in addition to the current YAPC::Europe conferences (which in my opinion should not change), should there not be a separate "Corporate" Perl conference, specifically designed for Perl users ? I mean, IT professionals who just use Perl for their job ?
The organization of the conference seemed to be very smooth. I know it can't have been because it never is, but as far as I know, not a single glitch made it through to the attendees. The organizers did a great job!
The organization seemed less focused then in Vienna, and it relied on people checking the website instead of sending out more stuff by email.
The wifi was a bit flaky.
The wifi was too weak.
The WIFI..............(non-existent)
There should be two or three hotels that hold the majority of participants to facilitate the Fluxx track. This year we were split all over town. The bofs were almost non existent this year. We really need the organizers to provide several time slots and locations that bof organizers can choose from. Copenhagen is too expensive.
there was a big problem with WiFi, which is a shame, as limited CPAN contributions during the conference.
there were no vegetarian food.
Vegetarian options should be asked upfront on registration and not made the responsibility of the attendee.
very poor WLAN at Copenhagen Business School, otherwise excellent venue...
Very well run and organised.
Vegetarian food options were sadly limited.
It was harder to meet up and socialise than at YAPC::EU Wien, maybe because hotels were spread out. Also seemed to be little activity on the Wiki?
Weak WiFi.
Web site: I would have wanted more detailed journey plan.
Overall experience: the danish girls look beautifyl. :-)
When you get a bunch of perl hackers in one place, the network will be severely strained. :) Wifi and wireless services need to have greater capacity that was available at CBS.
YAPC::EU is going from strength to strength
Yes. Where was the vegetarian lunch?
You did a great job!
You don't do an "economy" conference in a city or even country with prices like Copenhagen, sorry. 150-200 Euro/night in a decent hotel for a double bedroom?! The low registration price suddenly doesn't mean so much.

The Conference Fee

In order to help future organisers to gauge an appropriate conference fee, how much would you (or your company) have paid for a conference ticket? Feel free to provide an answer for all rates, where standard rate would be the price paid by your company, the individual rate for those in paid employment, but funding themselves, and lastly the student rate for anyone who holds proof (e.g. a recognised student card) that they are in current fulltime education, or have just completed their studies.

Standard Rate:

Count	Fee
1	€ 50
1	€ 80
1	€ 99
20	€ 100
1	€ 100-200
6	€ 120
1	€ 121
1	€ 128
14	€ 150
1	€ 180
32	€ 200
15	€ 250
4	€ 300
2	€ 350
1	€ 400
2	€ 500
1	€ 1000
1	€ 1200
1	€ ?

Individual Rate:

Count	Fee
1	€ 40
9	€ 50
1	€ 60
4	€ 70
2	€ 75
8	€ 80
2	€ 90
2	€ 99
1	€ < 100
40	€ 100
7	€ 120
2	€ 125
12	€ 150
3	€ 180
2	€ 200
1	€ 240
1	€ no idea

Student Rate:

Count	Fee
3	€ 10
4	€ 20
5	€ 25
5	€ 30
1	€ 33
4	€ 40
31	€ 50
1	€ < 50
3	€ 60
6	€ 70
3	€ 75
6	€ 80
1	€ 90
1	€ 50-100
10	€ 100
1	€ 150
1	€ 200
1	€ 240
1	€ no idea

How did you pay for the conference fee?

Count	Description
43	N/A - I was a speaker
3	N/A - I was a sponsor
77	My company paid
60	I paid out of my own pocket
0	I wasn't able to attend

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