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Issue #274 - 2016-10-23 - Rakudo Star Release
latest | archive | edited by Upasana Shukla
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Following the release candidate last week, Rakudo Star 2016.10 has been released this week. One more Perl conference is waiting for you, London Perl Workshop, submit your talk proposals. Upasana Shukla |
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CPAN News
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Don't be sad, it is temporarily down for maintainence, it will be back on Friday October 28, 2016. |
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by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL) Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)'s regular lists: Great modules released last week; MetaCPAN weekly report; StackOverflow Perl report. |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Gabor pointed out that some CPAN modules are missing/outdated in Ubuntu. Reddit thread tells us that there are more. May be lend a hand to Debian Perl group | 
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Perl 5
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by Zakariya Mughal (ZMUGHAL) Zakariyya asked on reddit why there aren't more FOSS desktop applications? He is himself working on one, if you are also working (or worked on one in the past) on a desktop application in Perl, then please do share it with the rest of the world. |
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by Alexey Melezhik (MELEZHIK) SparrowHub is a repository of useful automation scripts. Talk to Alexey if you have any idea for an automation script & want to add it to SparrowHub. | 
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Perl 6
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Perl Maven
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Speaking
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) Have you ever given a talk at a conference? If no, then please give one at LPW. If you need help, then Neil would happy to be your LPW talk buddy. | 
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Grants
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by Dave Mitchell An update on work done by Dave under his grant for maintaining Perl 5 core. |
Not Perl
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by Aurynn Shaw I came across this blog post about contempt culture & I think it is relevant to our Perl community as well. |
Post-conference write ups
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by Sweth Chandramouli Sweth attended a Perl conference after a very long time & he loved it. |
