[tpm] Perl 7: Slides from last week's talk; opportunities

[James E Keenan]

Thanks to Alex for offering me the opportunity to speak virtually to 
Toronto Perlmongers last Thursday evening.  Here is a link to the slides 
I presented.

http://thenceforward.net/perl/talks/toronto-perlmongers-20200730/slides/

Two more points:

1. As you probably know, we discovered that the webcasting technology we 
were using limited attendance to 10 people.  So people both in Toronto 
and elsewhere (to whom I had sent invitations) were shut out of the meeting.

We can compensate for that by having a virtual meeting on IRC.  If, 
*after going through those slides*, you want to have more discussion 
about Perl 7 as software and project, I'd be happy to set up a time to 
discuss this on the otherwise little used #tpm IRC channel at 
irc.perl.org.  Please ping me off-list if you're interested in that.

2. We're fast approaching a stage in the Perl 7 Project where we need 
more people looking at the code base and the changes we've made.  What 
we're looking for is not so much "code reviewing" as "code 
understanding," that is, understanding exactly what we're trying to do 
and then looking at the code to determine whether we've done what we set 
out to do.

To be a "code understander" you would need:

* Familiarity with Perl 5 -- which, I would suspect, the overwhelming 
majority of readers of this list already have;

* Basic familiarity with git and an account on github.com; but ...

* Familiarity with the Perl core distribution is helpful but not essential.

If you have free time, particularly over the balance of this month and 
next, and would like to make a tangible contribution to the forward 
development of Perl, please ping me off-list and I'll go into greater 
detail.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan