Perl 6
Perl 6 People: Revision 57
This "who is doing what" and "who is interested in what" social-networking page is for anyone (including newbies and organizations) doing anything significant (including commercial) regarding Perl 6.
- Add your (or their) name below, in alphabetical order (by last name or organization), in the most relevant section (or sections). Create a new section if a suitable section doesn't exist.
- Link the name to a suitable home page, blog, or whatever, or you can create a new personal page on this wiki to link to (use the same name for the page name).
- Add a few sentences relevant activities, interests, and so on.
This important section expanded enough to get its own page (Yea!): Perl 6 Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters.
The Perl 6 Design Team
Also known as "@Larry", and led by Larry Wall, our hero and leader, the inventor of Perl. AKA "TimToady" on IRC #perl6 (derives from "TIMTOWTDI"). He has staked out the perl5-to-perl6 translator as his own project. Overdue for a MacArthur prize, and will deserve a Turing award when Perl 6.0 goes live.
- Nicholas Clark: Perl 5 Pumking. Also see "People of Perl: Nicholas Clark".
- Will Coleda: The parrot project manager. Has worked on a variety of languages targeting parrot.
- Damian Conway: He writes the Exegeses, which explain by example Larry's design documents (the Apocalypses).
- chromatic: The project secretary, a Parrot developer, and the one who argued for roles for a couple of years until Allison pointed to the traits paper. Also editor at Perl.com. Read chromatic's journal.
- Jerry Gay: Hacks on Parrot, Rakudo Perl 6 and the Parrot Compiler Toolkit (PCT). Read Jerry's journal.
- Patrick Michaud: The author of PGE, the Parrot/Perl 6 Grammar engine. He's also the Perl 6 compiler and Parrot pumpking. Read Patrick's journal. Also see "People of Perl: Patrick Michaud".
- Allison Randal: The Parrot architect. Also hacks on the Perl 6 compiler tools. She started the Synopses with Damian.
- Hugo van der Sanden: Knows more about Perl 5 internals than any one person should, which helps to make better decisions for Perl 6.
- Audrey Tang: The primary force behind Pugs, the original Perl 6 compiler implementation in Haskell that targets at least four different backends, including JavaScript. Ended the long "Dark Ages" of compiler-side Perl 6 development. Spread "-Ofun" and commit bits to the masses. Also deserving of a MacArthur prize.
- Jesse Vincent: The Perl 6 project manager. An expert at the "stick and carrot" approach to open source development.
- Richard Dice: The president of The Perl Foundation.
The Old Guard
These individuals contributed a great deal, but are no longer serving in their former capacities:
Software Developers
Developers using Perl 6 (and Parrot)
- Darren Duncan: DB-related stuff.
- Stevan Little: "Moose is the new Perl" Moose meta-object system. Stevan's journal.
- Bernhard Schmalhofer: Working on Pipp, PHP on Parrot, and Eclectus, Scheme on Parrot.
- Mark Stosberg: I'm working on porting CGI::Application to Perl 6 and having fun along the way.
Documentation Authors
Perl 6 Wiki Contributers
- John Beppu:
- Herbert Breunung: Works on the Perl 6 tutorial in this wiki, one in the german perl-community.de wiki and one in $foo perl magazine. He also maintains the online reader bundled with docs: "Perl6::Doc".
- Andy Lester: Set up the official Perl 6, Parrot, and then Perl 5 wikis. Also runs rakudo.org and perlbuzz.com. Andy's journal.
- Conrad Schneiker: The original instigator of the official Perl 6 wiki (and still offers a $1,000 prize for doing the Perl 6 implementation of it). Added most of the original content, and continues to work on it. Also instigator of the perl.perl6.users newsgroup, and used it to lobby for a Perl 6 earmark donation process for grassroots fundraising. (Many strong Perl 6 and Parrot developers are severely constrained by the time required for survival $work.)
- Aaron Trevena:
Article Authors
Others
- Ask Bjørn Hansen: Set up Perl 6 newsgroups (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group)
- Andy Lester: Started and maintains Perlbuzz, which reports frequently about Perl 6 related events.
- Juerd Waalboer: Runs feather, a Perl 6 development machine, and used to be active in several areas of Perl 6/Pugs.
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