Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC), from 2016–2019 called The Perl Conference (TPC), from 2020 on The Perl and Raku Conference, is a series of conferences discussing the Perl programming language, usually organized under the auspices of The Perl Foundation and Yet Another Society, a "non-profit corporation for the advancement of collaborative efforts in computer and information sciences". The name is an homage to yacc, "Yet Another Compiler Compiler".
The first YAPC was held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US on June 24 and June 25, 1999. Organizer Kevin Lenzo assembled 31 different speakers into the schedule on various Perl-related topics. The idea of a low-cost Perl conference quickly spread with a European version of YAPC established in 2000, Israel in 2003, Australia in 2004, Asia and Brazil in 2005, and Russia in 2008. The only continents never to have hosted a YAPC are Africa and Antarctica.
In 2016, YAPC rebranded itself as The Perl Conference, which is the former name of O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). As of 2020, it is now calling itself The Perl and Raku Conference to reflect the renaming of Perl 6 to Raku.
Locations
North America
1999: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (June 24 – June 25, 1999) YAPC::NA 1999
2000: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (June 21 – June 23, 2000) YAPC::NA 19100
2001: Montréal, Québec, Canada (June 13 – June 15, 2001) YAPC::NA 2001
2002: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA (June 26 – June 28, 2002) YAPC::NA 2002
2003: Canada: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (May 15 – May 16, 2003) (held as YAPC::Canada) YAPC::Canada 2003: America: Boca Raton, Florida, USA (June 16 – June 18, 2003) YAPC::NA 2003 2004: Buffalo, New York, USA (June 16 – June 18, 2004) YAPC::NA 2004 2005: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (June 27 – June 29, 2005) YAPC::NA 2005 2006: Chicago, Illinois, USA (June 26 – June 30, 2006) 2006) YAPC::NA 2006 2007: Houston, Texas, USA (June 25 – June 27, 2007) YAPC::NA 2007 2008: Chicago, Illinois, USA (June 16 – June 18, 2008) YAPC::NA 2008 2009: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (June 22 – June 24, 2009) YAPC::NA 2009 2010: Columbus, Ohio, USA (June 21 – June 23, 2010) YAPC::NA 2010 2011: Asheville, North Carolina, USA (June 27 – June 30, 2011) YAPC::NA 2011 2012: Madison, Wisconsin, USA (June 13 – June 15, 2012) YAPC::NA 2012 2013: Austin, Texas, USA (June 3 – June 5, 2013) YAPC::NA 2013 2014: Orlando, Florida, USA (June 23 – June 25, 2014) YAPC::NA 2014 2015: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (June 8 – June 10, 2015) YAPC::NA 2015 2016: Orlando, Florida, USA (June 20 – June 22, 2016) YAPC::NA 2016 2017: Alexandria, Virginia, USA (June 18 – June 23, 2017) The Perl Conference in DC 2018: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (June 17 – June 22, 2018) The Perl Conference in Salt Lake City 2019: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (June 16 – June 21, 2019) The Perl Conference in Pittsburgh 2020: Online (due to COVID-19) (Wednesday 24th to Friday 26th 2020) Perl and Raku 'Conference in the Cloud' Replaces TPCiH 2020 Houston Tuesday, planned June 23rd through Saturday, June 27th 2021 Conference in the Cloud ( June 8 - June 10, 2021) The Perl and Raku Conference in the Cloud 2022: Houston, TX (June 22 - June 24, 2022) TPCiH 2022 Houston 2023: Toronto, CA (July 11 - July 13, 2023) The Perl and Raku Conference in Toronto