As a companion tutorial for the Rakudo * release, a new, free and collectively written Perl 6 book was planned altogether with Rakudo *.

• get it and participate:
• Git repository at http://github.com/perl6/book
• Discuss in irc://freenode.net#perl6book
• Download the preliminary PDF version of the book at: http://github.com/perl6/book/downloads
• Note: check http://rakudo.org for {announcements and links} for newer versions.
• Authors:
• Moritz Lenz (keeper of the Perl 6 test suite, and Perl 6 user and blogger)
• Patrick Michaud (architect of the Rakudo Perl compiler)
• Jonathan Worthington (prolific contributor to both Rakudo and Parrot)
• Carl Mäsak (frenetic Rakudo user, November author and our number one bug finder)
• Jonathan Scott Duff (wrote the initial preface)
• We are also open to contributions from others.