Tech Conferences and Parrot Outreach

Will Coleda will at coleda.com
Thu Mar 17 20:14:27 UTC 2011


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:42 PM, James E Keenan <jkeen at verizon.net> wrote:
> Friends,
>
> There have been a lot of positive developments about Parrot in the past six
> months, but we haven't been very good about letting the outside world know
> about them.  That's something we have to change.
>
> I know that several Parrot contributors -- Christoph Otto, Jonathan Leto and
> Jonathan Worthington come to mind -- are already planning to speak at
> technical conferences over the summer about Parrot or about technologies
> like Rakudo that are built on top of Parrot.  That's terrific!  We need more
> outreach like that.
>
> To that end, we need to assemble a list of who is speaking on what, when and
> where -- where the "what?" refers to Parrot or technologies built on top of
> Parrot.  We'll start a wiki page for that, but, to make it simple, if you
> are planning such a presentation, simply reply to this list posting.
>  Needless to say, we'd particularly like to have people who have yet to
> speak in public about Parrot do so for the first time.

Adding these to the google calendar visible on the front page would
also be keen.

> Of course, technical conferences are only way of getting the message about
> Parrot out.  We'd like to recruit people to help us with any and all of the
> following:
>
> * An introductory-level slideshow in PDF format (10-20 slides) about Parrot
> that *anyone* (not just Parrot core developers) could run at a local tech
> user group meeting (Perlmongers/Python user group, Linux/BSD user groups,
> etc.).
>
> * A 10-minute-long video about Parrot we could post to YouTube.  Or, better,
> a series of such videos, the first of which could be introductory and
> subsequent ones of which would be, say, quarterly updates.
>
> * Parrot T-shirts.
>
> * Parrot stickers.
>
> So, please let us know if you are already planning to speak about Parrot
> over the next six months, and please make other outreach-related
> suggestions.
>
> Thank you very much.
> Jim Keenan (kid51)
>
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Will "Coke" Coleda


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