Originally published on 13 April 2009 by Patrick Michaud.
As some of you are aware, this week is the
Nordic Perl Workshop,
and in the days immediately following the workshop we will have the
Oslo Raku Hackathon. During the first day of the hackathon
Gabor Szabo will be doing a
“Hands-on Raku training” course,
the other two days will be for various hacking tasks (both Raku
and Perl).
I personally have three goals for my participation at the
workshop and hackathon:
Attend Gabor’s course and take careful note of where issues arise with using Rakudo Perl and/or Raku (including filing bug reports and/or answering questions as needed).
Recruit and encourage people to write Raku programs and otherwise start hacking on/with Rakudo Perl.
Meet with other principal Rakudo and Raku designers and implementors to plan the next phases of work and address any significant obstacles currently before us.
For now I've started a page at
http://www.rakufoundation.org/raku/index.cgi?perl_6_hackathon_targets
that lists a variety of specific ideas for things to work on
or address at the hackathon. I'm sure more ideas will arise
at NPW itself, and I invite others to add more items to the
list as well. Feel free to add things even if you won't be
making it to NPW or the hackathon itself; you may think of something
that we've overlooked, and there are other hackathons planned later
in the summer that will benefit from having the ideas.
Thanks!
Pm