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The Perl Oasis is a day long conference focusing on practical applications of Perl. The conference is being organized by the Orlando Area Perl Mongers.

The Orlando Perl Mongers are pleased to announce the choice of our Keynote Speaker. Mike Whitaker (Penfold) will be flying in from the UK to give a keynote on Enlightened Perl.

We will have two tracks (advanced and beginner), and we expect approximately 100 participants. We will also try to arrange a hackathon on the Sunday after the conference.

This workshop's topic is "Practical Perl for Business". We're interested in hearing about your talks on these topics:

• Perl Success Stories
• Modern use of Perl
• Good testing practices using Perl
• Your Favorite Topic? (systems administration / life sciences / web development)

The Early Bird prices are $20 USD regularly and half-price for students ($10 USD). Early Bird Prices will end December 20th, and the prices will go up so please sign up quickly!

We may take the liberty of filming presentations. If you are not interested in being filmed during your presentation, please let us know in advance.

We cannot offer much for your lecture, except:

* Free admittance
* A chance to meet a lot of Perl people

A list of subjects that will be discussed:

• Dark Arts of the Perl Command Line Interface
• Refactoring bad perl
• Objects in Lua
• An Introduction to DBIx::Classs
• Dependent queueing with Perl
• The ins and outs, ups and downs, and all arounds of being a Perl Wife
• XML::Toolkit - Tools to Ease the Pain
• Introducing KiokuDB
• Catalyst & Chained: Bondage for better applications‎
• DBIx::Class::QueryLog - Keeping a Lid on DBIx::Class
• Moose for Managers
• KEYNOTE: Enlightened Perl: what is it, and why should I care?
• Building a Moose class on top of a DB row