Austin Hastings wrote:
Yapc 2010 is in Columbus, Ohio this year, in case you needed a reason
not to go.
Careful with the sarcasm :-)
That said, I wonder if there's going to be a PVMW 2.0, either coincident
with YAPC or not.
Last year there were elaborate plans for us to have a workshop on the
Saturday and Sunday before the three days of YAPC. This workshop was to
have been held in some location high on one of Pittsburgh's mountains.
The conference center looked quite delightful but, not surprisingly, it
fell through -- I think for lack of $$$. So we ended up having the
workshop in the same building on the Carnegie-Mellon campus that the
YAPC for-fee classes were being held in. Which was all the better, as
far as I was concerned.
I think it's basically up to us, the Parrot developers, to (a) decide
what business we want to conduct in a workshop; (b) decide whether we
want to have it the weekend before YAPC or the Thursday/Friday YAPC; and
then (c) discuss with the conference organizers what space is available
at Ohio State in those time periods.
My own two cents:
First cent:
I would like to hear what the Rakudo folks' launch plan for Rakudo* is.
If the launch is on track for April 2010 as pmichaud presented last
year, then YAPC::NA::2010 will be the first major Perl conference where
we have that "usable subset of the Perl 6 specification" ready for
people to play with. As I argued at our online summit in December, a
successful launch of Rakudo* is the best possible advertising for Parrot.
Second cent:
Whatever we do decide, I think the fact of having a workshop is even
more important than its content. As I have previously argued, people in
an online, open source project need to see each other F2F at least once
a year (at least those on a given continent). In particular, I hope
that our project architect and project manager can be at the workshop
this year, along with all our board members.
Thank you very much.
kid51
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