Two major Perl events will take place in Italy, thanks to the effort of the Italian Perl users and the Pisa.pm users group.

Nordic Perl Workshop 2010 will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland on May 1st-2nd. The organizers are currently receiving registration and abstract submissions (submissions are open until the end of the month).

"I am happy to announce that on 1-2 August, 2009, the week-end before YAPC::EU I am going to give a Perl 6 training in Lisbon, Portugal..."

This year's EuroPython event will take place from the 17th to the 24th of July in Birmingham, UK and the conference organisers are currently seeking submissions from attendees for talks, papers and tutorials that cover all aspects of Python

Patrick Michaud posted a journal entry on his use Perl; page that says We will make an “official”, intermediate, useful and usable release of Perl 6 (an appropriate subset) by Spring 2010.

"...The conference is open to the public, and is a chance for educators, researchers, programmers and free culture activists who are interested in the Wikimedia projects to learn more and share ideas about the Wikimedia projects. This year's conference will be held July 9-11, 2010 in Gdansk, Poland at Polish Baltic Philharmonic..."

The OpenStreetMap Project has announced that it has surpassed more than 300,000 registered contributors and that it is now accepting venue suggestions for next year's State of the Map conference

Lately, the Perl language has had less buzz surrounding it than many other languages and development environments, but Perl is still a key component on the Internet.

The schedule for this year's European Python Conference, taking place from the 17th to the 24th of July in Birmingham, has now been published