RE: Perl 6 PR

I think this is very good. I am not going to come with a lot of helpful stories, links or references because I am not any good at that. The single success story published to my name took me two months to write...

But I think this is a good approach and I hope lots of people can help you. I myself am just waiting for P6 - after the initial frenzy back in 2000, I have more or less settled for when-it's-done.

/Henning

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Lester [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 6:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Perl 6 PR

If you've wanted to help with the Perl community, and specifically  
Perl 6, but don't know how, this may be just the ticket.

A thread on perl5-porters turned into a big discussion of Perl 6 and  
its perception in the community, and outside of it.  Here's the  
problem.  As PR guy for The Perl Foundation, the only thing I get  
asked about Perl 6 is "When will it be done."  I can't give an answer  
to that, because the development team is not able to give a  
reasonable estimate.

So, we discussed how we can discuss Perl 6 and the benefits it brings  
to the community, even though we don't have any sort of estimate.   
Jesse Vincent, Perl 6 project manager, said:

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