[nylug-talk] Perl Seminar NY Meets Tues Oct 17

[James Keenan]

Perl Seminar NY meets on the third Tuesday of each month between  
October and May.  So that means that the first meeting of our 2006-07  
season is coming up next week.

Date & Time:
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
6:15-8:15 pm

Location:
NYPC Users Group
481 8 Ave (Ramada New Yorker Hotel building), btw West 34 & 35 Sts,
Manhattan
Room 550-51

Here's the lineup:

Main Presentation:
David Golden
The Vanilla Perl Project

The Vanilla Perl Project is a community-based effort to provide  
binary Perl distributions for the Microsoft Windows operating system  
that include a bundled compiler. Bundling a compiler provides the  
ability to install XS CPAN modules directly from CPAN.

[Poster's inline comment:  Yes, I know this is about that other OS.   
But learning Perl on Windows has been the bridge for many people to  
learn about Perl's native environment.  So save the flames.  Besides,  
the guy doing the presentation is a real alpha hacker.  --jk]

While releases are still only officially at the alpha stage, Vanilla  
Perl and its sibling, Strawberry Perl, are the closest thing to Perl  
on Unix, and are being used on a daily basis by a number of major  
CPAN authors and Perl personalities when they need to work with Perl  
on Windows.  Among its notable achievements, it is the only Windows- 
based Perl known to support v6.pm -- the experimental Perl 6 on Perl  
5 bootstrap compiler.

David Golden, core developer and release manager, will give an  
overview of the project's history, status and roadmap as well as a  
quick guide to getting started, with hints and tips for things that  
work and things that are still under development.


Other Presentations:
Summer Conference Roundup

Collective Hacking
Jim Keenan

Jim will initiate a dialogue about possible foci for collective  
hacking projects along the lines of Perl Seminar NY's participation  
in the Phalanx project during our 2004-05 season.

Jim Keenan