Oslo.pm #perl6 hackathon theme braindump

Oslo-Perl6-Hackathon-2012-info.yml

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- Status: Preliminary plan. Subject to change!
- Dates (confirmed):
  - 2012-04-20 (friday evening social)
  - 2012-04-21 (saturday)
  - 2012-04-22 (sunday)
- Venue (confirmed):
  - Redpill Linpro classrooms
  - Vitaminveien 1A
  - 0485 Oslo
  - Norway
- Sponsors (more wanted):
  - Oslo.pm (10,000 NOK)
- Hackathon theme: "Perl 6 Patterns"
  Regarding:
    - teaching
    - learning
    - promoting
    - making Perl 6 easier to use
- Related events:
  - Go Open 2012:
    - 2012-04-23
    - 2012-04-24
  - Damian Conway courses:
    - 2012-04-18
    - 2012-04-19
    - 2012-04-20
  - Oslo.pm emergency social meetup:
    - 2012-04-23
- TODO:
  - http://piratepad.net/oslo-perl6-hackathon-2012
- Braindump of questions for the hackathon attendees:
  - 'How/Why is Perl6 radically different from other languages?':
    - 'How do we tell this?'
    - 'Are there any/What are the scientific papers/research that Perl 6 builds on?'
  - 'Why does Perl 6 development take a long time?':
    - 'Why are there too few developers?':
      - 'Has the Perl 6 development process been too complicated?'
      - 'What can be done to make it easier for new developers to join?'
      - 'Has the documentation/specification been too much oriented towards current Perl 6 developers, rather than to external users?'
    - 'What can do to reach/recruit more developers?'
  - 'How will a future with Perl 6 look like?':
    - 'How do we get to this future?'
  - 'What does it mean for me, as a programmer, that Perl 6 is released?':
    - 'How do I learn Perl 6?'
    - 'What software/modules can I make use of?'
    - 'What infrastructure do I have available?':
      - 'What should this infrastructure look like?':
        - 'Should there be more "official" frameworks, or should we keep embracing timtowdy? How much should we focus on the former or allow the latter?'
  - 'Why the high ambitions with Perl 6?':
    - 'Can we use these ambitions in any new ways?'
    - 'How do we share these ambitions? How do we explain their reason?'
    - 'How do we use these ambitions for a marketing purpose?'
    - 'How do we convey the differences between Perl 6 and other languages?'
    - 'What are the killer arguments for why people should switch to Perl 6?'
  - 'How will Perl 6 influence the way we program? (roles, grammars, gradual-typing, multis, junctions, terseness, meta-operators)':
    - 'How can we make binary bindings (c libraries) more accesible?'
    - 'How can we make "Write once, use on any VM" a reality?'
    - 'How can we show use of all these new features?'
    - 'How do we teach these concepts well?'
    - 'What do we have to do to establish a notion of "Idiomatic Perl 6"? "Perl 6 patterns"? "Perl 6 by example"?'
  - 'How to do we communicate the Perl 6 revolution?':
    - 'Do we need a Perl 6 marketing group?'
    - 'How can we get Perl 6 more into research and development communities?'
    - 'How can we make Perl 6 the natural choice for learning scripting languages?'
    - 'What tag lines should we use? (cf. Java had "write once, run everywhere")'
    - 'Are there other ways of presenting information about the language and software, that would make it easier for new users?'