Here's another chance to mingle and learn from the Perl experts. Back by popular demand, the 4th Italian Perl Workshop, organized by Italian Perl Mongers and Pisa.pm, will be held on Sept 18-19, 2008. This workshop will create a dialogue between Perl developers of all levels and provide an arena for the exchange of knowledge. There will be both conference-style talks and unconference-style discussions. To make sure the workshop is accessible to everyone, registration is free of charge! ActiveState is a sponsor.

PyCon UK, hosted in Brimingham on Sept 12—14, is back by popular demand. It's a conference for Python users and programmers of all levels, with talk topics ranging from an introduction to Python to building publishing solutions with ReportLab and tricks for systems programmers. This year, Mano Marks of Google will be holding a Google AppEngine tutorial at the conference. We're sponsoring, but we'd rather be there....

Nothing beats learning something and traveling at the same time. Wanna see deserts and lizards? Utah Open Source Conference, organized by Utah Open Source Foundation, will be held on August 28 - 30 in Salt Lake City this year. This year's theme is HOWTO. The idea is to bring together open source enthusiasts across industries to foster the knowledge exchange and learning. Conference tracks will be categorized into technology, education, community and business. In addition, the registration fee is structured to ensure that it's affordable to everyone interested. Such a great community event! We've teamed up to sponsor.

Before the end of the summer: DrupalCon Szeged in Hungary. More than four hundred prospective attendees have already signed up for the biggest Drupal Conference in Europe. In addition to four compact session tracks, there will be lots of BoF opportunities, plus four new themed exhibitions. Participate in the code sprint and test out what you've just learned at the conference. Be a part of this thriving community!

This year's YAPC::EU's theme is Beautiful Perl. 92 talks are packed into the 3-day event with a wide range of tracks: Big, DB, Devel, GUI, Lang, etc. Topics include working with Perl and Rails, working in the cloud, DBIx::MasterClass, and unicode best practices. YAPC continues to deliver conferences at affordable level. Don't miss out on this community driven event!