A goal that set my juices to flow is to make Perl a first class GUI language. Like back in the days even hardcore Java people took TCL to whip up a small graphical frontend app. This should now be done in Perl, because Perl can be simple but powerful when you need it. It just lacks some nice sugar to get a Gui fast. And GCL is my attempt to achieve that.

Disclaimer: the docs things starts at paragraph 3.

Within 2 Weeks I was in Kiev and St. Augustin, giving 6 instances of 3 talks. My minireport on Kiev got published (in German) but there is a lot more to say of course. In Kiev Wendy talked me into the frogcon (the frog is the official logo because if you add an H ...) thing. And it was the best Perl booth/dev room we had ever there and i had a nice kinda YAPC after party, which sparked some thought what could be improved for the Perl world.