Things That I Think Makes YAPC::Asia Tokyo Special, And Also Make It Work
Things That I Think Makes YAPC::Asia Tokyo Special, And Also Make It Work
Here I list things that I think makes YAPC::Asia Tokyo special, not like any other YAPC in the world. Currently most items link to a placeholder article, because I haven’t gotten around to writing them yet.
- YAPC::Asia Tokyo is backed by Japan Perl Association. In the last few years, I have been the benevolent dictator overlooking if things were in shape
- We have a clear vision of what we want to be: We want to make YAPC a place where techies can share their love for technology, with a bit of bias towards Perl.
What Do You Want Your YAPC To Be?
Or, “You Are Not Going Anywhere Unless You Know Where Your Goal Is”lestrrat.github.io
Or, “You Are Not Going Anywhere Unless You Know Where Your Goal Is”lestrrat.github.io
- We accept talks about anything, as long as it’s interesting. We do ask for the word “Perl” to be uttered a couple of times during the talk. This is crucial, as it is one of the secret sauces to attract over 1000 people.
- We tend to prefer talks about solutions, rather than how to build X with Perl|Ruby|Python|<Insert your favorite language here>.
- We take multimedia assets from our events very seriously.
- Since 2009, we have always hired a professional photographer to take photos of all of our speakers, the venue, the food, and other interesting bits, so we can always show it off to sponsors or people reading articles like this.
Where Were You During YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2014?
Or, “We Know, Because We Have The Official Pictures”lestrrat.github.io
Or, “We Know, Because We Have The Official Pictures”lestrrat.github.io
- All of our videos are up on YouTube, ASAP.
- We treat YAPC like a real business: that is, we have short and long term goals, we have a very strict policy on budget, we take our sponsor relationship very very seriously.
- We have around 50 sponsors, including media sponsors and network sponsors.
- We have a “sponsor menu”. We don’t just ask for money — we have specific items that people can sponsor for, which makes it easier to make a decision.
- In order to accommodate 1000+ geeks all using the network all at once, we actually work together with CONBU, a team of network enthusiasts. For the last two years, they have built our network from scratch (i.e. we don’t use the venue’s builtin network) that allows the attendants to quickly send and receive stuff. This also means that if an emergency call comes in, they can work from the venue — of course we prefer for that to not happen, but when it does, they can get stuff done. This gets one more reason not to come to YAPC::Asia out of the way☺