YAPC::NA Schedule is available

[Mike South]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Michael McClennen via yapc <yapc at pm.org>
wrote:

> Given the recent announcement that Perl 6 will be released by the end of
> the year, I am very surprised that the schedule includes only 3 talks
> listed under the Perl6 category.  (Plus, presumably, the Q&A with Larry on
> Tuesday.)
>

The announcement at FOSDEM 2015 if I understand correctly.  That was Jan
31-Feb 1 (source https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/ ).

The dealine for proposals for YAPC::NA was Jan 15.  (Source
http://blog.yapcna.org/2014/12/15/yapcna2015-slc-call-for-papers-is-open/ )

To address this problem, speakers would need to have predicted the content
of Larry's talk fifteen days before the deadline for YAPC::NA.

Therefore, after some research into the timing you should not be "very
surprised" about this, but rather "somewhat dismayed that the timing worked
out as it did".


>
> I understand that the organizers have to work with the proposals that
> people send in, but is there something we as a community can do to improve
> this situation?  The thing I most want to get from YAPC this year is more
> information about Perl 6.
>

One thing you can do personally is attend the Perl 6-centric hackathon
listed at this previously-posted url:
http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/hackathons.html (there is registration link
there).

A meaty bof session might be another way of addressing what it likely to be
a significant thirst for information on this topic.  "Meaty Bof Session" is
also a pretty good name for a band.

In order for a meaty bof session to be successful, it probably needs to be
led by someone with real knowledge of the topic.  Perhaps someone on this
list will volunteer or suggest a leader that could be politely petitioned
to do that.

My company recently used a tool called "pigeonhole live" (it's a pay thing,
but someone could probably write a replacement in time in perl :) ) to let
people propose and then vote on a list of questions to address during a
panel discussion (in real time as the panel was being conducted).  Such
technology might be useful here.

A Perl 6 BoF that took the form of a Q and A with a panel might be just the
ticket.

My guess is that there will be a lot of demand for this kind of thing given
the recent announcement, but that you would need a heavyweight (or a panel
thereof) behind it to make it useful.

mike



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>   -- Michael McClennen
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