James E Keenan wrote:
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.
Since the RFP deadline is fast approaching, I took the liberty of filing
a proposal for such a lab session/workshop. This proposal is mainly
intended to be a placeholder for a better proposal which we would
develop collectively on this list.
The title and description I provided for this proposal is as follows:
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Parrot and Perl 6 Workshop
Have you been avoiding trying out Parrot or Rakudo (the Perl 6
implementation on the Parrot virtual machine)? Come to this lab session
and solve your avoidance problems.
We'll walk you through a download of the Parrot source code, building
and testing Parrot on your laptop or remote machine. Then we'll show
you how to build Perl 6 on Parrot and get you to "Hello, world." At
that point, you'll be ready to start playing with Perl 6 yourself.
The Parrot team is particularly interested in having you attend this
workshop if you want to try out Parrot and Perl 6 on operating systems
for which we do not regularly get smoke test reports. So we welcome
participants working on Win32, OpenBSD, Solaris, etc., as well as Linux,
Darwin and FreeBSD.
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Feedback welcome -- particularly if it comes from people who'd be
willing to co-lead such a workshop with me! :-)
kid51
