It has been a few days, and we have (sort of) landed.
I shall call this year's Oslo.pm Perl 6 Patterns hackathon a success, judging by how the participants seemed to enjoy themselves during the hackathon, and the inspired blogging afterwards.
Salve (sjn) and Rune (krunen) have, on behalf of Oslo.pm, delivered to standards that I am a bit worried that guests now will come to expect ;), and although I did not have capacity to help with much, I am happy with how everything turned out, except for one thing:
Damian caught a cold, and was essentially out of the loop for most of the hackathon.
Darnit.
But he delivered a kick-ass talk on Thursday, and was very helpful and a very good resource before he somewhat reluctantly accepted the thrown towel.
I did not do much hacking this year myself, but I managed to revive some of my Perl 6 skills. I even fiddled a bit with the cookbook (dormant for three years or so, and therefore slightly out-of-date in some respects). I hope to contribute more to that piece of documentation in the coming months.
The bonus if I manage to work my way through it, is that I will be pretty much up to speed with the language. Win!
My thanks go to all the participants of the Hackathon, without you, Perl 6 would be much the poorer!
Showing posts with label Oslo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oslo. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Oslo.pm Patterns Hackathon pictures
Hacking: sjn, moritz (back), pmichaud, jnthn, masak, tadzik, sergot, bjarneh
Hacking: imarcusthis, infosophy
Posing, back to front, left to right:
infosophy, moritz, arnsholt, sjn, krunen, masak
tadzik, jnthn, frettled, pmichaud
Friday, April 13, 2012
Oslo.pm Perl 6 Patterns Hackathon 2012
In one week (2012-04-20 – 2012-04-22), a bunch of bright people will attend the Perl 6 Patterns Hackathon in Oslo.
Perl 6 – both its specification and implementations – will become one of the Great Ones. I admit that we are not quite there yet, but to me, Perl 6 is a language for the long term.
In one of the meetings krunen, sjn and I had this winter, we discussed this, and how to get there. I hope the Perl 6 Patterns Hackathon will contribute significantly, and I also hope that in 30-60 years, we will look back and be happy about most of the choices made around this time! I truly believe that we can get there!
I hope to see you in Oslo in a week!
* I did not write "Perl" here, because I think that is largely irrelevant. Perl 6 is an amalgam of many of the most interesting programming language features, and offers a very compelling path to those who want a next-generation language after the current versions of e.g. Perl, Python, and Ruby.
Perl 6 – both its specification and implementations – will become one of the Great Ones. I admit that we are not quite there yet, but to me, Perl 6 is a language for the long term.
In one of the meetings krunen, sjn and I had this winter, we discussed this, and how to get there. I hope the Perl 6 Patterns Hackathon will contribute significantly, and I also hope that in 30-60 years, we will look back and be happy about most of the choices made around this time! I truly believe that we can get there!
Call for sponsor matching
In this spirit, Ingvoldstad IT decided to sponsor this hackathon with NOK 5,000 (≈ EUR 650), and I hereby call for other companies who develop software* to match this amount. Oslo.pm will put those money to good use!I hope to see you in Oslo in a week!
* I did not write "Perl" here, because I think that is largely irrelevant. Perl 6 is an amalgam of many of the most interesting programming language features, and offers a very compelling path to those who want a next-generation language after the current versions of e.g. Perl, Python, and Ruby.
Monday, July 25, 2011
A warm and powerful time in unity
Occasionally, I have faith in my fellow Norwegians.
This afternoon was one of those times.
As international media will tell you, this afternoon was very special for those of us living in Oslo.
It started with a Facebook event, that rapidly spread via national media, friends talking and whatnot. If it hadn't been a planned event, it would have been a very large flash mob.
It was with some trepidation that my colleague and I walked towards Rådhusplassen (the city hall square), as we well knew that a gathering of tens of thousands of people would be a very decent terrorist target.
The general idea was that people would gather there, carrying roses, and then walk peacefully to somewhere else (I've forgotten where). The plan did not survive. One of the major suppliers of plants and flowers said they would sponsor free roses. Every florist was out of flowers in no time, except for potted ones, it looked almost like locusts had passed by.
As we walked on, the crowd density increased, until it exceeded anything I have ever experienced. We Norwegians are very fond of going downtown for our constitution day May 17, or supporting events like the Nordic World Ski Championships or the Winter Olympics in 1994, and the crowds are enormous for a small country such as ours. Those days and events cannot compare.
The sea of flowers, the human warmth and compassion, the sense of unity of purpose – it was almost overpowering, and when Maria Mena started singing Ole Paus's Mitt lille land, I let the tears flow. At the end, we were asked to leave slowly, take care of eachother, and take our flowers – which the arrangers had planned to be placed in a single, potently meaningful place – and leave them all over Oslo.
If you weren't there, I wish you were.
This afternoon was one of those times.
As international media will tell you, this afternoon was very special for those of us living in Oslo.
It started with a Facebook event, that rapidly spread via national media, friends talking and whatnot. If it hadn't been a planned event, it would have been a very large flash mob.
It was with some trepidation that my colleague and I walked towards Rådhusplassen (the city hall square), as we well knew that a gathering of tens of thousands of people would be a very decent terrorist target.
The general idea was that people would gather there, carrying roses, and then walk peacefully to somewhere else (I've forgotten where). The plan did not survive. One of the major suppliers of plants and flowers said they would sponsor free roses. Every florist was out of flowers in no time, except for potted ones, it looked almost like locusts had passed by.
As we walked on, the crowd density increased, until it exceeded anything I have ever experienced. We Norwegians are very fond of going downtown for our constitution day May 17, or supporting events like the Nordic World Ski Championships or the Winter Olympics in 1994, and the crowds are enormous for a small country such as ours. Those days and events cannot compare.
The sea of flowers, the human warmth and compassion, the sense of unity of purpose – it was almost overpowering, and when Maria Mena started singing Ole Paus's Mitt lille land, I let the tears flow. At the end, we were asked to leave slowly, take care of eachother, and take our flowers – which the arrangers had planned to be placed in a single, potently meaningful place – and leave them all over Oslo.
If you weren't there, I wish you were.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Oslo.pm Past and Future
In case the title wasn't a give-away: this is a non-technical blog entry.
I became an Oslo.pm member by signing up for the mailing list shortly after the Nordic Perl Workshop 2009. That's cheap (well, free!), easy, and therefore newbie-friendly.
Last week, I dropped in at the general assembly and exercised my speaking and voting rights, and got an inside scoop on how this Perl organization works. The board members were, after all, the guys who did a terrific job arranging not only this spring's workshop, but also mostly the same people who held the workshop of 2006, which also went quite well.
From my point of view, Oslo.pm has come from being an anonymous group to a rather solid little volunteer organization. Before 2006, I'd have said "huh?" if someone asked me who might have anything to do with Perl in Norway, afterwards, I knew there was something called Oslo.pm, and so did a few people in Europe and the USA. After NPW 2009, I think it's safe to say that the organization is now known as a stable and capable group of Perl mongers. That's a decent achievement, especially in this age, when it seems like almost nobody (in Norway) is willing to do anything free of charge.
So what did they think about themselves, and what's going to happen in the near future?
True to the Norwegian spirit, they were modest and self-disparaging, but they were very happy that the attendees were apparently happy, even months later.
Salve J. Nilsen, the Great Leader of 2009, bowed and said farewell to the post of chairman, and now Marcus Ramberg is at the helm.
The new Oslo.pm board will attempt to increase local activity, and there will probably be some kind of technical talk on the first Wednesday of almost every month in 2010. They aim to increase cooperation with local Perl-using companies, as well as aiming for some cross-language and language agnostic sessions.
First out is tomorrow's Perl 5.10 session at Redpill Linpro, which I'm sure will be technically rewarding for those who show up. I plan to!
I became an Oslo.pm member by signing up for the mailing list shortly after the Nordic Perl Workshop 2009. That's cheap (well, free!), easy, and therefore newbie-friendly.
Last week, I dropped in at the general assembly and exercised my speaking and voting rights, and got an inside scoop on how this Perl organization works. The board members were, after all, the guys who did a terrific job arranging not only this spring's workshop, but also mostly the same people who held the workshop of 2006, which also went quite well.
From my point of view, Oslo.pm has come from being an anonymous group to a rather solid little volunteer organization. Before 2006, I'd have said "huh?" if someone asked me who might have anything to do with Perl in Norway, afterwards, I knew there was something called Oslo.pm, and so did a few people in Europe and the USA. After NPW 2009, I think it's safe to say that the organization is now known as a stable and capable group of Perl mongers. That's a decent achievement, especially in this age, when it seems like almost nobody (in Norway) is willing to do anything free of charge.
So what did they think about themselves, and what's going to happen in the near future?
True to the Norwegian spirit, they were modest and self-disparaging, but they were very happy that the attendees were apparently happy, even months later.
Salve J. Nilsen, the Great Leader of 2009, bowed and said farewell to the post of chairman, and now Marcus Ramberg is at the helm.
The new Oslo.pm board will attempt to increase local activity, and there will probably be some kind of technical talk on the first Wednesday of almost every month in 2010. They aim to increase cooperation with local Perl-using companies, as well as aiming for some cross-language and language agnostic sessions.
First out is tomorrow's Perl 5.10 session at Redpill Linpro, which I'm sure will be technically rewarding for those who show up. I plan to!
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