Philippe Bruhat (BooK) collated a list of all known grassroots Perl conferences. Act (created in 2004) hosted 34 of the 99 Perl conferences organized since 1999!
Counting only the conferences organized after Act was created, the ratio goes up to 44%. The world domination plan is coming along nicely... ;-)
The addition of Unicode opened the way for non-latin based translations. In the last few months, we've seen the addition of Hebrew (Perl Workshop in Israel), Russian (Russian Perl Workshop), Ukrainian (Ukrainian Perl Workshop) and Belarusian (Belarusian Perl Workshop).
With YAPC::Asia, a Japanese translation is expected soon.
Act now fully supports Unicode. The production sites have all been converted to Unicode/UTF-8.
Hear! Hear! The path is clear for non latin-based translations...
Act now supports the Perl Foundation's online payment system. YAPC::NA 2007 is the first Act conference to benefit from this new interface.
Act will be one of the featured projects at the first European Perl hackathon, in Arnhem, Netherlands. Incidentaly, the website of the hackathon is hosted on Act. :-)
Act-related projects will include:
After so many years of procrastination, we have finally sorted the licensing out, and decided to go with the classic dual Artistic/GPL license used by Perl.
The repository is now accessible read-only to everyone interested, at svn://svn.mongueurs.net/act/. There is also a SVN::Web interface at http://svnweb.mongueurs.net/Act/.