If they are unwashed then they definietly need a Mangle. Others, Pythonistas, Ruby programmers and Tcl hackers can come unmangled :-)

Gabor, master typo hacker

Good luck with your conference; personally I am pretty sure I don't qualify. I'm a PHB :)

-- Panem et *burp* circenses

We are also planning a track for PHBs, but not yet sure what to put there :-)
What would you like to see in such a conference?

Bit of a challenge, trying to find a way to work PHBs into a perl and developer-oriented conference...

Off the top of my head, no clue. I'm always happy to see FOSS awareness generation, but it'd be something of a stretch given the focus of your conference; maybe a separate event. Us PHBs are always interested in FOSS-business world intersection.

As for this conference, perhaps the non-technical constituency might be interested in a presentation on more general things such as:

1. What would one use perl for, ideally? When would python be better? When would C be better? &c.
2. development costs associated with the different languages, possibly focusing on advantages offered by perl (less money for programmers, more expenditure on mountain dew on a per head basis, &c)

Just something to build a bit of awareness at the management level regarding development options and strategies, nicely wrapped up in a bit of perl advocacy if you must.

Make sense?

-- Panem et *burp* circenses

You only need a passport and a bus ticket (maybe a visa as well ?) it isn't that far away. We will also try to find accomodation around the venue once we know where that will be.

It's not about the bus ticket or the visa. It's about other thing that can't be discussed here!