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+Barcelona Perl & Friends
+========================
+
+The event formerly known as _Barcelona Perl Workshop_ mutated in
+2017 to what's currently a more accurate description. Even though
+the _Perl Workshop_ name was used traditionally for such events,
+only people inside the Perl community understood that it wasn't
+actually a workshop but a smaller conference in most cases.
+
+The [Barcelona Perl Mongers](http://barcelona.pm) have long
+embraced all sorts of people from other communities in their
+events, thus making the new name a more appropiate match to
+their usual attendees.
+
+List of Events
+--------------
+
+The upcoming event is
+[Barcelona Perl & Friends 2018](http://friends.barcelona.pm/2018).
+There's also a list of [past events](http://barcelona.pm/#events).
+
+Copyright & License
+-------------------
+
+Copyright © 2017-2018 Barcelona Perl Mongers http://barcelona.pm/
+
+```
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the "Artistic License" which comes with Perl.
+See LICENSE for details.
+```