{"id":189,"date":"2007-06-25T16:21:21","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T16:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?p=189"},"modified":"2007-06-25T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T16:21:21","slug":"on-site-at-yapcna-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/2007\/06\/on-site-at-yapcna-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"On-site at YAPC::NA 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a short break from my normal programming oriented blog entries, I figured I should comment about <acronym title=\"Yet Another Perl Conference\">YAPC<\/acronym>::<acronym title=\"North America\">NA<\/acronym> 2007 which we (Houston.pm) are hosting. The conference is currently running (June 25 &#8211; 27) at University of Houston, Central Campus.<\/p>\n<p>Eight-ish months ago, Jeremy Fluhmann talked us into putting in a bid for YAPC. Despite quite a bit of work it has turned into an amazing learning experience, even before the conference started.<\/p>\n<p>As you might be able to tell from my site, I&#8217;m a stereotypical programmer-type. In the process of preparing for the conference, I had to work to learn to deal with people much better than I normally do. It is a lot of work. There were stressful situations. Things went wrong. Things went right. We were stretched and we learned. On top of everything, I had a real chance to meet and work with people just outside my normal comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever get an opportunity to run a conference or help organize a conference, I would highly recommend taking that opportunity. If you are like me, you will find this to be much different than you expect and a really good opportunity to work on skills that you may not normally exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a short break from my normal programming oriented blog entries, I figured I should comment about YAPC::NA 2007 which we (Houston.pm) are hosting. The conference is currently running (June 25 &#8211; 27) at University of Houston, Central Campus. Eight-ish months ago, Jeremy Fluhmann talked us into putting in a bid for YAPC. Despite quite\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/2007\/06\/on-site-at-yapcna-2007\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[86,241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gwadej.org\/programmer-musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}