Q: PVMW k10?

James E Keenan jkeen at verizon.net
Tue Feb 9 03:28:13 UTC 2010


Austin Hastings wrote:
> Yapc 2010 is in Columbus, Ohio this year, in case you needed a reason
> not to go.
>

Careful with the sarcasm :-)

> That said, I wonder if there's going to be a PVMW 2.0, either coincident
> with YAPC or not.
>

Last year there were elaborate plans for us to have a workshop on the 
Saturday and Sunday before the three days of YAPC.  This workshop was to 
have been held in some location high on one of Pittsburgh's mountains. 
The conference center looked quite delightful but, not surprisingly, it 
fell through -- I think for lack of $$$.  So we ended up having the 
workshop in the same building on the Carnegie-Mellon campus that the 
YAPC for-fee classes were being held in.  Which was all the better, as 
far as I was concerned.

I think it's basically up to us, the Parrot developers, to (a) decide 
what business we want to conduct in a workshop; (b) decide whether we 
want to have it the weekend before YAPC or the Thursday/Friday YAPC; and 
then (c) discuss with the conference organizers what space is available 
at Ohio State in those time periods.

My own two cents:

First cent:

I would like to hear what the Rakudo folks' launch plan for Rakudo* is. 
  If the launch is on track for April 2010 as pmichaud presented last 
year, then YAPC::NA::2010 will be the first major Perl conference where 
we have that "usable subset of the Perl 6 specification" ready for 
people to play with.  As I argued at our online summit in December, a 
successful launch of Rakudo* is the best possible advertising for Parrot.

Second cent:

Whatever we do decide, I think the fact of having a workshop is even 
more important than its content.  As I have previously argued, people in 
an online, open source project need to see each other F2F at least once 
a year (at least those on a given continent).  In particular, I hope 
that our project architect and project manager can be at the workshop 
this year, along with all our board members.

Thank you very much.
kid51



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