Hi guys, I'm one of the academics Erwan talked about. In case you are wondering, what makes me interested in helping out with NPW are two things:
1) connecting PL researchers with the PL communities 2) connecting students with PL communities I think that the Programming Language community and the PL researchers in the academia have a lot to offer each other. For example, there is a lot of cool stuff that's only available in research languages (and Perhaps in Perl 6...) but very few really widespread languages have ever come out of academia. I'd like to see that changed. What I was thinking would be to try and get academics to give presentations thinking that talks of a more general nature should be interesting to the Perl community too. A bit like a basic course in algorithms are good regardless of programming languages. Cool and inspiring stuff is cool and inspiring to Perl programmers too. I think you get my point. And I think academics will get something out of meeting vibrant programming crowd. For the student bit, I really think they will benefit from getting involved in PL communities -- be it Perl or any other fairly open and friendly programming community. They will learn stuff, and make I also understand that you want to protect the P in NPW, by all means. I think my goal fits under a more general theme hat. The important bit is who you try to coerce to come to town, I guess. I am hopeful that we can work something out with the University for venue. I am not sure exactly what the policy is, and what deals have been struck before, but I will try and find out and report back to you. (I'm not in Sweden at the moment, so this will happen next week at the earliest.) --Tobias
