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| sjn | o/ | 15:15 | |
| sjn has submitted a 20-minute presentation about the perl6book project for NPW2011 :) | |||
| mostly for recruiting new people | |||
| moritz: anything you'd like me to cover? :) | 15:16 | ||
| (assuming it gets accepted) | |||
| moritz | sjn: nothing in particular | 15:18 | |
| sjn | nothing about intention, what kind of help's needed, if anyone can join, time requirements, who's the boss, how you intend to create a coherent author's voice, or anything like that? | 16:35 | |
| PerlJam | sjn: so far we've been failing at creating a coherent author's voice IMHO | 16:42 | |
| when is NPW ? | 16:43 | ||
| oh. In just a couple of weeks | 16:44 | ||
| sjn | PerlJam: npw2011, Nordic Perl Workshop in Malmö | ||
| masak and jnthn are organizing | |||
| oh | |||
| you said "when" :) | |||
| it's the weekend in two weeks | |||
| PerlJam | sjn: IMHO, these are useful things for the book: people trying the code snippets and reporting what fails or doesn't work quite right, reading for clarity (what doesn't make sense or is worded oddly), and proof-reading (typos/grammar/etc) | 16:47 | |
| and any other suggestions :) | 16:48 | ||
| sjn | PerlJam: my ambitions are a little beyond that, but I'll try to make those points too :) | ||
| I'm mostly wondering about any limitations or rules | |||
| PerlJam | sjn: Having a coherent plan would help people to contribute their own text/code | 16:49 | |
| sjn | non-obvious ones | ||
| moritz | sjn: well, it's your talk, I assume you'll be talking about the things that matter to you | 16:50 | |
| sjn | moritz: yep, but I'd like it to be a collective effort too :) | ||
| PerlJam | It would be neat if the current authors ended up more as "editors" and the "author" was the community. | ||
| sjn | PerlJam: exactly :D | 16:51 | |
| PerlJam | sjn: The problem is as I mentioned before ... there's no "book plan" in good enough shape that people could just jump in and start writing. | ||
| sjn has a vague and slightly unrealistic ambition of helping on that point | 16:52 | ||
| at least offer something to discuss or throw away :-P | 16:54 | ||
| PerlJam | Having a bunch of people look at it and say things like "I'd like to see more about X" or "I'm interested in X, but it's not in the book" or "I heard Perl 6 has X, how do I do that?" etc. | 16:55 | |
| would be helpful in devising the "plan" | 16:56 | ||