A couple of points about YAPC:
1. It's almost two weeks earlier this year than it has been in the past
three years. So if your mental clock has been set to "3 days of YAPC +
2 days of hackathon + 3-day 4th-of-July weekend" (as mine has), please
reset it whenever you (or, at least, those of you in NA) set your clocks
ahead this weekend.
2. Consequentially, the deadline for submissions is earlier this year.
In fact, it's just 7 days away: Saturday, March 15. So what
Parrot-related submissions do we have?
3. YAPC is trying out a new format for some time slots this year. Josh
McAdams writes on use.perl.org:
"This year we are also planning on introducing more hands-on
workshop-style tracks to the conference. These sessions will typically
be a little longer than a normal presentation and will be much more
informal. During the workshops, conference attendees will be able to
interact with presenters to actually do things like compile Parrot or
create a hello world program in Perl 6. If you are involved in a project
and would like to host a workshop, please contact Josh McAdams directly
at joshua dot mcadams at gmail dot com."
So, we've been all but commissioned to do a presentation in this
workshop format. My hunch is that if we can get participants to get to
Hello World in Perl 6 and some other languages, we'll be much
appreciated. We could also lead people through the mechanics of
downloading Parrot via tarball or SVN and building it. If we could
encourage people to bring laptops loaded with OSes that normally don't
get much attention, we could get some instant feedback about what's working.
Who would like to work on something like this?
kid51
