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I hope not.

• sp332 11y ago
  Why? Not everyone interested in this can make it to the event.
  • raiph 11y ago
    Because I think folk will be inclined to refer to and even hype this Craig's List hosted "event" as something akin to a launch of Perl 6 1.0. Some will be well-meaning. Some will be malicious. But it won't matter. Perl 6 and Larry won't be even close to ready by October 5th (imo) for the expectations and exposure that would inevitably follow. Imo we get just one more shot at fairly easily getting a significant chunk of the tech world to voluntarily strongly focus on Perl 6 for 15 minutes. We can and hopefully will maintain control of when that happens even if we can't control anything else. It's going to be damn hard (but just about doable, one hopes) to make Perl 6 good enough -- as a flawed but at least interesting 1.0 -- to withstand and ultimately profit from the spike in scrutiny following a launch this christmas. If we launch (in the public's eye) now, I predict we'll get widely dismissed and will have already blown most of the unique and precious opportunity currently still available if we instead make sure that the launch, and perception of a launch, waits until christmas. So, I do hope they record this Craig's List presentation for historical purposes but keep it for private viewing only until after christmas. (Or maybe put out a very short video of some highlights, making it clear it's not yet the launch. And maybe, just maybe, spend a couple weeks or so producing something reasonably slick, blending highlights with some other material, to try attract more contributors in the run up to christmas.) Imo, Christmas really needs to wait until Christmas and I pray that it does.