Act News http://act.mongueurs.net/news.xml 2012-10-18T22:51:23Z Act sources now available to Git Hub http://act.mongueurs.net/news.xml#20110719 Act team 2011-07-19T02:41:00Z Upon the request of many people, the repository has been migrated from Subversion to Git, and uploaded to Git Hub:

The test conferences are already running over a clone from this repository.

]]> New feature: proceedings page http://act.mongueurs.net/news.xml#20110715 Act team 2011-07-15T00:22:00Z Another feature that was requested, a proceedings page, to have all the talks in one page with their description and slides link. Available on all production sites.

]]> New feature: timezone in the ICS export http://act.mongueurs.net/news.xml#20110714 Act team 2011-07-14T17:59:00Z As requested by for some users, the ICS export now include timezone information:

  • global calendar timezone (X-WR-TIMEZONE)
  • timezone definition (VTIMEZONE/DAYLIGHT/STANDARD)
  • all dates with TZID parameter

Anyone who meets Richard Clamp, please offer him a drink, because his module Data::ICal::TimeZone does all the ugly job.

]]> New feature: Faces of conference http://act.mongueurs.net/news.xml#20110702 Act team 2011-07-02T15:41:00Z "Faces" is a page grouping the name and photo (if any) of all committed attendees. This is available for all conferences in production.

Examples:

]]> New properties in the iCalendar export http://act.mongueurs.net/news.xml#20110604 Act team 2011-06-04T19:36:00Z The iCal export now has a few new properties:

  • ORGANIZER (unique) contains the name of the speaker
  • COMMENT (repeatable) contains the number of attendees to this talk
  • ATTENDEE (repeatable) contains the name of an attendee
]]> New translations: Slovak and Norwegian http://act.mongueurs.net/news.xml#20080902 Act team 2008-09-02T16:00:00Z Act hosted one third of the first 100 Perl conferences http://act.mongueurs.net/news.xml#20080428 Act team 2008-04-28T22:00:00Z 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... ;-)

]]> Act in Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian http://act.mongueurs.net/news.xml#20080204 Act team 2008-02-04T14:00:00Z 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 uses Unicode in production http://act.mongueurs.net/news.xml#20070403 Act team 2007-04-03T20:45:00Z 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 interfaces with The Perl Foundation http://act.mongueurs.net/news.xml#20070327 Act team 2007-03-27T15:00:00Z 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 at the first European Perl hackathon http://act.mongueurs.net/news.xml#20070202 Act team 2007-02-02T15:00:00Z 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:

  • translations
  • documentation
  • new features from the copious TODO list
  • tests
]]> Act is now truly Open Source http://act.mongueurs.net/news.xml#20070126 Act team 2007-01-26T00:00:00Z 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/.

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