Some ideas for NPW2008 in Stockholm

Hi you all!

First, a huge thanks to Jonas, Lars and the other members of the danish =
NPW team! It was a most interesting and revigoring workshop you gave us!

Last week Jonathan Worthington spent 2 days in Stockholm and we met an =
evening together with Tobias Wrigstad and Johan =D6stlund from =
Stockholm's university who both are teaching and/or doing/leading =
research in the field of dynamic languages. They came up with very =
interesting suggestions!

Tobias could get us some support from Stockholm's university, a bit like =
the Oslo workshop did. We could probably get access to their conference =
rooms for free/cheap, in exchange for giving the workshop an orientation =
that would interest students and teachers.

A preliminary suggestion would be to focus the workshop on talks that =
discuss dynamic programming and dynamic features in Perl. We would for =
example have talks about the new features in Perl6 and Parrot, about =
dynamic constructs such as closures, continuations, metaclass hacking, =
code generation, etc.

An other idea would be to make a bridge between the hacker community =
around Perl6/Parrot and the academic world. This has been an important =
trend for many involved in Perl6/Parrot lately, with for example Audrey =
Tang and Jonathan W. going to wellknown academic conferences. That could =
mean talks about the way Parrot's guts are implemented, the way Perl6 is =
being designed or the way CPAN6 will look like.

There are already conferences and workshops for dynamic languages, such =
as http://dyla2007.unibe.ch/?Call_for_papers. We could do something =
similar but restricted to Perl.

I believe we would wake a strong interest for the workshop by giving it =
that kind of orientation for the Stockholm edition and attract really =
interesting speakers both from the Perl community and Stockholm's =
university. Giving the workshop some content that is relevant to courses =
at Stockholm's university could also bring us lots of students as =
attendees. At least we seem to have the right contacts to make this =
happen.

What do you all think of that?

/Erwan=20