On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:42 PM, James E Keenan <[email protected]> wrote: > Friends, > > There have been a lot of positive developments about Parrot in the past six > months, but we haven't been very good about letting the outside world know > about them. That's something we have to change. > > I know that several Parrot contributors -- Christoph Otto, Jonathan Leto and > Jonathan Worthington come to mind -- are already planning to speak at > technical conferences over the summer about Parrot or about technologies > like Rakudo that are built on top of Parrot. That's terrific! We need more > outreach like that. > > To that end, we need to assemble a list of who is speaking on what, when and > where -- where the "what?" refers to Parrot or technologies built on top of > Parrot. We'll start a wiki page for that, but, to make it simple, if you > are planning such a presentation, simply reply to this list posting. > Needless to say, we'd particularly like to have people who have yet to > speak in public about Parrot do so for the first time.
Adding these to the google calendar visible on the front page would also be keen. > Of course, technical conferences are only way of getting the message about > Parrot out. We'd like to recruit people to help us with any and all of the > following: > > * An introductory-level slideshow in PDF format (10-20 slides) about Parrot > that *anyone* (not just Parrot core developers) could run at a local tech > user group meeting (Perlmongers/Python user group, Linux/BSD user groups, > etc.). > > * A 10-minute-long video about Parrot we could post to YouTube. Or, better, > a series of such videos, the first of which could be introductory and > subsequent ones of which would be, say, quarterly updates. > > * Parrot T-shirts. > > * Parrot stickers. > > So, please let us know if you are already planning to speak about Parrot > over the next six months, and please make other outreach-related > suggestions. > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan (kid51) > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > -- Will "Coke" Coleda _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
