This event is free for those that attend. We aim to sponsor the travel and accommodation costs for those who can not otherwise get funding, we also provide refreshments and work space during the day.
In order to help cover these costs we would be delighted to receive donations of any size. If you, or your company, would like to sponsor this event please email neilb @ cpan.org. You can also make a donation here.
We want to thank the companies, organisations, inkind and individual sponsors that help us make the Perl Toolchain Summit 2018.
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Booking.com are looking for top talent! Are you a great Perl programmer, or willing to learn Perl, and would you like to be challenged? Join the international and dynamic Booking.com team in our Headquarters in Amsterdam! Booking.com is a large Perl shop with some of the greatest developers and as a company we sponsor almost all Perl events around the globe to support the Perl community. We offer an extensive relocation package, we take care of your visa and book the trip for you (and for your spouse, if applicable).
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Fastmail.com is a commercial hosted email service founded in 1999, and which has established a reputation for technical leadership in the hosted email space, with a focus on security, privacy, and reliability. It is run by FastMail Pty Ltd, an Australian company based in Melbourne. From their early days they've been users and supporters of Perl, and several of their developers are CPAN authors.
ZipRecruiter.com is a website where job seekers can find jobs all over the world, and employers can list their open positions. Not only will those positions be listed on ZipRecruiter.com, they will be pushed to more than one hundred job boards and social networks. Job seekers get free email alerts with postings that are tailor-made for their skill set and location.
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Perl services is the contracting company of Renée Bäcker, a CPAN author (RENEEB) since 2004.
OpusVL are the Open Source business management software specialists who like to ask searching questions. Things like, “How would a business run without software?”. The reason they do this is to make sure they understand fully all the processes that are needed to make a business run smoothly – and how to streamline them for maximum efficiency.
Infinity Interactive is a collection of passionate technologists who solve problems for a wide range of clients. Founded in 1998, Infinity now has over 30 employees spread across North America. While their “first love” will always be Perl, Infinity has expertise across a wide array of languages, technologies and platforms, from .NET to Node, Swift to Xamarin. A long time and fervent supporter of the open source and Perl communities, you may recognize their employees from their CPAN contributions and YAPC talks.
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Eligo is a UK-based recruitment agency that specialises in a number of areas, including software development. Their Perl recruiter is Rick Deller, who has presented at a number of Perl events around Europe.
Bytemark, founded in 2002, we’re the UK experts in cloud & dedicated hosting. You’re in safe hands: We’ve been building successfully for 14 years and we directly operate our entire infrastructure.
Oetiker+Partner is a Swiss-based software consultancy that almost exclusively use open source software. Beyond their customer projects, they have open-sourced a number of their own projects.
Our event partners are foundational to the success of the Perl Toolchain Summit.
NUUG Foundation is our local Partner. They are helping the 2018 Perl Toolchain Summit with much welcomed resources and invaluable support. Without their help, organizing Open Source community events (like the PTS) in Norway would be a lot more difficult. NUUG Foundation is a Norwegian non-profit that supports efforts for improving the public availability of open infrastructure, free and open source software and open standards.
Teknologihuset ("House of Communities") is the PTS 2018 Venue Partner. They offer venues suitable for technical meetups, presentations, conferences and hackathons specifically for the IT meetup communities in Oslo. Their funding is mainly through partnerships with IT companies in Norway, which enables them to offer meeting rooms in several sizes for free in the evenings for any volunteer-based IT community that needs a place for their meetup.
The following companies covered the travel and/or accommodation costs of their employees who attended the Summit.
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