At YAPC::EU 2010 in Pisa I received a business card with "Rakudo Star" and the
with a countdown to 1200 UTC. I still have mine, although it has a tea stain
on it and I refreshed my memory over the holidays by listening again to Patrick
Michaud speaking about the launch of Rakudo Star (R*):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVb6m345J-Q

R* was originally intended as first of a number of distribution releases (as
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