I really appreciate your proposal, and I'm going to support it as good as I can (within the limit of time constraints etc. of course).

I agree that having a Perl 6 perlmonks is a very good idea, as long as it doesn't mean Perl 6 questions are banned from current perlmonks before the new one is ready :-)

A few technical remarks:

Rakudo is currently in a state where it needs users and real-world applications to find and shake out bugs. It's too slow for a site of the scale of perlmonks, but I expect that to get fixed eventually. It may not have all the features and modules needed yet, but it has a solid core, and modules can be written.

So far it has always been possible to find hosting for Perl 6 related projects. For smaller projects feather serves as free hosting environment, and sometimes we found supportive people working at hosting services. Also initiatives likes this make me optimistic that we can get funding for hosting if needed.

I think the next step should be to collect data and opinions about what are the good and what are the bad parts, both in technical and social terms. Update: see Why does PerlMonks rock? for some previous thoughts on that matter.

Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.

In reply to Re: New PerlMonks for Perl 6 - A Good Idea by moritz
in thread New PerlMonks for Perl 6 - A Good Idea by jdporter

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