A rather relaxed day here at the SPW 2019. We started out with a rather animated open discussion of the future on small Perl meet-ups. Seems it is not only the SWP that can have troubble attracting speakers or attendee, people from around the EU Perl community also voiced some concern that organizing small local workshops is getting more difficult.

On suggestion was changed the name or the SPW to something less perlish (which makes sense as Perl6 will soon have its own name). Another suggestion was joining up with more regional PM groups in the Alpine area to attract a few more …

Day one here at the SPW coming home again the Florian in Olten CH.

Liz was very passionate about Perl6 and it was a little sad to hear her story the state of Perl 5 and Perl 6 but we can always hope.

I was up next and was a little flustered to go up next to one of the legends but I think my talk on the history of routes and my personal style of writing route when ok, at least the crowd la…