Announcing the Perl Toolchain Summit 2026!

The organizers have been working behind the scenes since last September,and today Im happy to announce that the 16th Perl Toolchain Summit willbe held in Vienna, Austria, from Thursday April 23rd till Sunday April26th, 2026.This post is brought to you by Simplelists, a group email andmailing list service provider, and a recurring sponsor of the PerlToolchain Summit.

Started in 2008 as the Perl QA Hackathon in Oslo, the Perl ToolchainSummit is an annual event that brings together the key developersworking on the Perl toolchain. Each year (except for 2020-2022), theevent moves from country to country all over Europe, organised by localteams of volunteers. The surplus money from previous summits helps fundthe next one.Since 2023, the organizing team is formally split between a globalteam and a local team (although this setup has been informallyused before).The global team is made up of veteran PTS organizers, who deal withinvitations, finding sponsors, paying bills and communications. They areLaurent Boivin (ELBEHO), PhilippeBruhat (BOOK), Thibault Duponchelle(CONTRA), Tina Mller(TINITA) and Breno de Oliveira(GARU), supported by Les Mongueursde Perls bank account.The local team members for this year have organized several events inVienna (including the Perl QA Hackathon 2010!) and deal with finding thevenue, the hotel, the catering and welcoming our attendees in Vienna inApril. They are Alexander Hartmaier(ABRAXXA), Thomas Klausner(DOMM), Maro Kollr(MAROS), Michael Krll and HelmutWollmersdorfer (WOLLMERS).The developers who maintain CPAN and associated tools and services areall volunteers, scattered across the globe. This event is the one timein the year when they can get together.The summit provides dedicated time to work on the critical systems andtools, with all the right people in the same room. The attendees hammerout solutions to thorny problems and discuss new ideas to keep thetoolchain moving forward. This year, about 40 people have been invited,with 35 participants expected to join us in Vienna.If you want to find out more about the work being done at the ToolchainSummit, and hear the teams and people involved, you can listen toseveral episodes of The Underbar podcast,which were recorded during the 2025 edition in Leipzig, Germany:

Given the important nature of the attendees work and their volunteerstatus, we try to pay for most expenses (travel, lodging, food, etc.)through sponsorship. If youre interested in helping sponsor the summit,please get in touch with the global team atpts2026@perltoolchainsummit.org.Simplelists has been sponsoring the Perl Toolchain Summit for severalyears now. We are very grateful for their continued support.

Simplelists is proud to sponsor the 2026 Perl Toolchain Summit, as Perlforms the core of our technology stack. We are grateful that we can relyon the robust and comprehensive Perl ecosystem, from the core of Perlitself to a whole myriad of CPAN modules. We are glad that the PTScontinues its unsung work, ensuring that Simplelists can continue torely on these many tools.

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<h1 id="announcing-the-perl-toolchain-summit-2026">Announcing the Perl Toolchain Summit 2026!</h1>The organizers have been working behind the scenes since last September,and today I’m happy to announce that the 16th Perl Toolchain Summit willbe held in Vienna, Austria, from Thursday April 23rd till Sunday April26th, 2026.This post is brought to you by <a href="https://www.simplelists.com/">Simplelists</a>, a group email andmailing list service provider, and a recurring sponsor of the PerlToolchain Summit.<img height=400 width=500 src="https://www.perl.com/images/announcing-the-perl-toolchain-summit-2026/simplelists-logo.png" alt="Simplelists logo"><hr>Started in 2008 as the Perl QA Hackathon in Oslo, the Perl ToolchainSummit is an annual event that brings together the key developersworking on the Perl toolchain. Each year (except for 2020-2022), theevent moves from country to country all over Europe, organised by localteams of volunteers. The surplus money from previous summits helps fundthe next one.Since 2023, the organizing team is formally split between a “global”team and a “local” team (although this setup has been informallyused before).The global team is made up of veteran PTS organizers, who deal withinvitations, finding sponsors, paying bills and communications. They areLaurent Boivin (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/ELBEHO">ELBEHO</a>), PhilippeBruhat (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BOOK">BOOK</a>), Thibault Duponchelle(<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/CONTRA">CONTRA</a>), Tina Mller(<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/TINITA">TINITA</a>) and Breno de Oliveira(<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/GARU">GARU</a>), supported by <a href="https://www.mongueurs.net/">Les Mongueursde Perl</a>’s bank account.The local team members for this year have organized several events inVienna (including the Perl QA Hackathon 2010!) and deal with finding thevenue, the hotel, the catering and welcoming our attendees in Vienna inApril. They are Alexander Hartmaier(<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/ABRAXXA">ABRAXXA</a>), Thomas Klausner(<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DOMM">DOMM</a>), MaroÅ¡ Kollr(<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/MAROS">MAROS</a>), Michael Krll and HelmutWollmersdorfer (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/WOLLMERS">WOLLMERS</a>).The developers who maintain CPAN and associated tools and services areall volunteers, scattered across the globe. This event is the one timein the year when they can get together.The summit provides dedicated time to work on the critical systems andtools, with all the right people in the same room. The attendees hammerout solutions to thorny problems and discuss new ideas to keep thetoolchain moving forward. This year, about 40 people have been invited,with 35 participants expected to join us in Vienna.If you want to find out more about the work being done at the ToolchainSummit, and hear the teams and people involved, you can listen toseveral episodes of <a href="https://underbar.cpan.io/">The Underbar</a> podcast,which were recorded during the 2025 edition in Leipzig, Germany:<ul><li><a href="https://underbar.cpan.io/episodes/3/">MetaCPAN</a></li><li><a href="https://underbar.cpan.io/episodes/5/">Test::Smoke</a></li><li><a href="https://underbar.cpan.io/episodes/6/">CPAN Testers</a></li><li><a href="https://underbar.cpan.io/episodes/7/">CPAN Security Group</a></li><li><a href="https://underbar.cpan.io/episodes/8/">A tangent about the Perl Toolchain Summit</a></li></ul>Given the important nature of the attendees’ work and their volunteerstatus, we try to pay for most expenses (travel, lodging, food, etc.)through sponsorship. If you’re interested in helping sponsor the summit,please get in touch with the global team at<a href="mailto:pts2026@perltoolchainsummit.org">pts2026@perltoolchainsummit.org</a>.<a href="https://www.simplelists.com/">Simplelists</a> has been sponsoring the Perl Toolchain Summit for severalyears now. We are very grateful for their continued support.<blockquote>Simplelists is proud to sponsor the 2026 Perl Toolchain Summit, as Perlforms the core of our technology stack. We are grateful that we can relyon the robust and comprehensive Perl ecosystem, from the core of Perlitself to a whole myriad of CPAN modules. We are glad that the PTScontinues its unsung work, ensuring that Simplelists can continue torely on these many tools.</blockquote>

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