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• Posted New York Perl Hackathon a success! to kid51

  New York Perlmongers held a successful hackathon this past weekend at an event hosted by Rubenstein Tech in lower Manhattan. By our count, at least 24 people participated, coming from as far away as Harrisburg PA and eastern Connecticut.. …

• Commented on Pumpkin Perl Breakdown
  When I was in social work training I was introduced to the concept of partializing problems, i.e., trying to help someone experiencing multiple, interacting problems cope with them by breaking them down into components which were more solvable on...
• Posted Let's Have a Distributed Perl Hackathon to kid51

  Q. What is a hackathon?

  A. In the Perl world, it's a meeting, generally of one day's or a weekend's length, where Perl hackers come together in one physical location (primarily) to work collectively on projects which will improve Perl, CPAN and …

• Commented on So, Kiev 2013
  Go for it, Andrew! Now, if only we could find out where YAPC::NA::2013 will be held ... :-)...
• Commented on Perl to the rescue: case study of deleting a large directory
  Randal L Schwartz wrote: When I moved from OpenBSD to FreeBSD a year ago .... Have you posted or blogged anywhere why you made that transition? I would be very interested in hearing your reasons? Thank you very much....
• Commented on YAPC::Europe 2010 - Thoughts Pt 2/3 - Promoting A YAPC
  Re: optimum number of attendees: In his remarks at the "town meeting" which concluded YAPC::NA::2002 in St. Louis, YAPC founder Kevin Lenzo remarked (paraphrase) that 250 to 400 was the best size for a largely volunteer-driven conference like YAPC. Larger...
• Commented on What would you like TPF to do?
  Gabor: I think the best way to approach what the Perl Foundation -- or any non-profit organization largely sustained by the efforts of volunteers -- should do is to ask a series of questions: What things must it absolutely do?...

Comment Threads

• arrestee commented on Pumpkin Perl Breakdown

  mst, all day long I could not figure out where to stand to see things your way. Then I happened upon Dave Golden's blog post where he says:

  If we go all the way, and rebrand from "Perl 5" to "Pumpkin Perl 1", then we open the door to a future "Pumpkin Perl 2" that breaks backward compatibility with a major version bump.

  Oh. I get it. I was so stuck on my idea that the time to get a new name was when there was a major break of backcompat that I never really saw that scenario. With the, you know, version numbers and such... Sorry 'bout that.

  But I still don't…

• LoonyPandora commented on Pumpkin Perl Breakdown

  To be clear: I think the rename is a great idea. It's a first step, and that's awesome.

  With that in mind, for this to be successful we as a community have to go all in. Doing a rename like this in a half-assed fashion will fizzle out, and end up as wasted effort in a year. We need to give it an extreme amount of energy so it gets over the tipping point and takes on a life of it's own.

  This means more than making a pretty logo, changing the version string, and saying "yay perl". It means making noise. Lots of noise. No half-assed "ironman" blogging thing that generates little…

• lordarthas.myopenid.com commented on Pumpkin Perl Breakdown

  There are so many reasons to support this idea.
  One of those I really like is that people will be able to use search engines and find something up to date when typing "pumpkin perl": there's so many outdated stone-age perl-related material that we won't be able to get rid of that without a change like this.

  So, for this and many other reasons, it's +1.

  And willing to help where I can, of course.
  

• raiph commented on Pumpkin Perl Breakdown

  I liked everything about mst's original Pumpkin post with one small exception -- the specific qualifier Pumpkin.

  In most ways it's outstandingly good. But it didn't leave me 100% satisfied.

  I've just seen someone's suggestion of Modern Perl, and I have to say I like it a lot. I checked whois, and shadowcat owns modernperl.com...

• Christopher Cashell commented on Pumpkin Perl Breakdown

  I like it.

  The name "Pumpkin" isn't necessarily my favorite, but I'm pretty sure that's just pure personal opinion; I can't think of any real objections to it, nor can I think of a better suggestion. There's certainly nothing wrong with it.

  I do still like the idea of year-based versioning, ideally along with the name change. If you're going to do releases based on a scheduled time-table, it makes sense to match your versions to it. However, that's something that can be considered in the future.

  I'm feeling good about this change.