The Rakudo * release of Perl 6 on Parrot is almost here. Whether you want to get your own feet wet, or help wetten someone else's feet, join us to write some Perl 6 code and share some learning.

We'll begin with introductions, cover some basics, and then work in small groups or pairs for about an hour, followed by a recap, then (of course) beer.

If you can bring a laptop, download and install rakudo ahead of time:

$ git clone git://github.com/rakudo/rakudo.git $ cd rakudo $ perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot $ make $ make install $ PATH=$PWD/parrot_install/bin/:$PATH $ perl6 -e 'say "Hello World"'

For more info, see http://rakudo.org.

Parrot developers have reserved a room for the above times to meet face-to-face to talk about and hack on Parrot Virtual Machine!

The first few hours of the meeting will concentrate on people already involved in Parrot, to talk about which goals Parrot wants to achieve and what people will focus on in the future. Some members of the Board of Directors of Parrot Foundation will be present, and hopefully any local developers that are already involved with Parrot in some way.

The latter half of the time slot will be focused towards new users and people interested in learning more about Parrot. Some Parrot developers will hack on their Parrot-related projects, while others will work with those who are new to Parrot, to orient them and discuss what roles they can play in the Parrot community and/or what things need hacking on.

Hacking and schmoozing will probably continue after 5pm, but that is when our reserved space ends.

speaker: you

We will review some of the examples from rosettacode.org, with a focus on Perl 6 (and Perl 5), but may also compare to some of the other language examples.

Please volunteer to pick an example or two to review. Just look for something with a Perl 6 implementation and be prepared to talk us through the problem statement and how the Perl 6 solution works.

As always, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab.

Bring your laptop and curiosity about Perl 6 to join us for a night of hacking, hello world, and whatnot. Meeting in North Portland for variety.

Bring your laptop and curiosity about Perl 6 to join us for a night of hacking, hello world, and whatnot.

Bring your coding projects or puzzles to share.

Bring your coding projects or puzzles to share.

Bring your coding projects or puzzles to share.

Bring your coding projects or puzzles to share.

Bring your coding projects or puzzles to share.