Daniel Ruoso

Follows the slides fo the talk I presented at FISL. I liked a lot the reaction of the public, I was afraid of using simplistic examples or to distance people, but the response was very much positive. In general, I saw faces of surprise and satisfaction in the audience. Very good indeed.

Slides: Perl 6 - The quest for the holy grail

Getting home after FISL10, which happened in Porto Alegre, where all the free software geeks from Brazil get together to not attending any of the talks, but drinking beer and having lots of fun. This time it wasn't different, besides all the distractions in the environment, including:

• The Sun booth, which frequently was throwing small balls away with both "Java" and "Mysql" logos on it. The only thing we had to say about it: "it isn't a bad idea being able to kick java and mysql all day".
• The globo.com booth with the Brasil x South Africa, including all the noice from the crowd around the TV.
• The lines that were constantly formed in the booths that were serving espressos.
• Eventual use of speakers to announce some random prize or contest in some random booth.
• The visit of the president, which kept us away from the user group area an entire day, but didn't stop us from having the Perl booth open on the outside (Flavio Glock has pictures of the process of putting the banner in the light post)
• One more example of the sexist intent of the ruby community, with three fashion models being casted to walk the entire event using shirts with "We hire rails" (I don't know if there was a pun intended or not, but still, a bad sexist idea).
• The flacky network infraestructure, lucky of us who had 3g modems from home, hoping no roaming taxes will be charged.

All that being said, I had very much fun with Perl people from all around Brazil. I took part in the cerimony for the launch of a system I've been working for more than a year as free software in the Brazillian Public Software Portal, and I gave a talk titled "Perl 6 - the quest for the holy grail". Each of one deserves a particular post. So that's all for now.