We (Jean Benoit and me – Strasbourg.pm) were on the highway from Luxembourg to Brussels, there was a light fog and we weren’t completely awake when we saw a beautifull white horse galloping to us in the wrong way. Yeah, welcome to Belgium :). This edition of the Belgian Perl Workshop (thanks to Belgium mongers for oganization and to Dirk De Nijs and Module Builder for sponsoring it) was the smallest Perl event I ever attended (1 day, 1 track, something like 20 attendees) and it really pleased me: we were few (mostly dutch and french people) but all of us were experimented mongers and all the talks (including mine, I hope) were instructive (the topics, the speakers, also the interactions between them and the audience).

Note for myself: tux told us about surprising performances of SQLite and CDB during his talk on tie key/value store in a hash. I hope he’ll give us feedbacks about it.

The BPW site don’t mention the lightning talks which were interesting too:

• Liz about perl oneliners and strictness
• Laurent about the french perl events: there would be plenty of them in 2012, including QA Hackathlon. If you’re interested in sponsoring, please let me know.
• Claudio about you! If you can help the Perl community at FOSDEM, please contact him or Gabor
• Closing talk by Ecocode

The end of the event was a bit short: everyone has to go back home and we don’t even had time for a beer event. That’s sad but as FOSDEM will stand at Brusel too, I guess I’ll see you in february.