28th German Perl Workshop (2026, Berlin)

Last week, the Perl community came together for the 28th German Perl Workshop. This year, it was held at the Heilandskirche in Berlin Moabit. Excitingly, we had the nave for the presentations.

While the name is still German Perl Workshop, we now draw attendees from all over the globe. Presenters came from India, the US and various European countries. Maybe it is time to announce it as a more international conference again.

Bringing the infrastructure to a Perl Workshop is a lot of additional hardware that we hopefully won't need, like looong HDMI cables, various adapters to HDMI, a bundle extension cords and duct tape of the non-Perl variant. Lee also brought the EPO recording set for recording the presentations. The set came back with me from Berlin, as its main use is nowadays recording the talks at a German Perl Workshop for later publication.

Organizing a conference usually means that my attention is divided between running the event, chatting with attendees and giving a presentation or two. Luckily other members of Frankfurt.pm and other long-time attendees are always there to lend a hand.

Over the years, we have organized the German Perl Workshop many times. Local organizers for 2027 already stepped up. Next year, we aim for the city of Hannover. We don't have the contract for a venue signed, so watch https://www.perl-workshop.de/news for announcements.

Such an event can't happen without the sponsors who support us financially. Let me quickly show their logos here: