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.

Perl 6 Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters

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. We think he deserves a MacArthur prize.

• Nicholas Clark: Pumking of the Perl 5.8 series. Also see "People of Perl: Nicholas Clark".
• Will Coleda: VP of the Parrot Foundation. Has worked on a variety of languages targeting parrot.
• 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. 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".
• Damian Conway: He writes the Exegeses, which explain by example Larry's design documents (the Apocalypses).
• Allison Randal: The Parrot architect. Also hacks on the Perl 6 compiler tools. She started the Synopses with Damian and is now president of the Parrot Foundation.
• 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 -- see Tang's Time-line in When will Perl 6 be released?. Spread "-Ofun" and commit bits to the masses. Also deserving of a MacArthur prize.
• Richard Dice: The president of The Perl Foundation.

Software Developers

Contributors to Rakudo Perl 6

• Jeff Horwitz: mod_perl6. Jeff's blog.
• Ovid (Curtis Poe): Also see "People of Perl: Ovid".
• Jonathan Worthington: Mostly works on the Perl 6 compiler; previously worked on Parrot.
• Jonathan Leto: Implemented the roots() builtin in Rakudo and has added many tests to the Perl 6 test suite.

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

Books

• The Open source Perl 6 book is written by:
• 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)
• Moritz Lenz (keeper of the Perl 6 test suite, and Perl 6 user and blogger)
• Jonathan Scott Duff (wrote the initial preface)
• They are also open to contributions from others.
• See Perl 6 Books and Media historical info and future prospects.

Perl 6 Wiki Contributors

• Martin Berend
• Herbert Breunung: Works on the Perl 6 Tablets and a Perl 6 Tutorial in this wiki, which are translations of tutorials in the German perl-community.de wiki and $foo perl magazine. He also maintains the online reader bundled with docs: Perl6::Doc. He and mberends++ did a major {reorganization, update, and cleanup} of this wiki.
• Andy Lester: Set up the official Perl 6, Parrot, and then Perl 5 wikis. Also runs rakudo.org and perlbuzz.com. Andy's journal.
• John Beppu:
• Aaron Trevena:
• Conrad Schneiker: The original instigator of this wiki. He {collected and added} most of the original content, and helped update it for the first year or so. He also offered a $1,000 prize for implementing a wiki engine in Perl 6, which was awarded to {Carl Mäsak, Johan Viklund, and Ilya Belikin} for the November project in 2009. He was also instigator of the perl.perl6.users newsgroup, and used it to lobby for a Perl 6 earmark donation process for grassroots fund-raising. (Many strong Perl 6 and Parrot developers are severely constrained by the time required for survival $work.)

Article Authors

• Adriano Ferreira: Perl 6 microarticles

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.

The Old Guard

These individuals contributed a great deal, but are no longer serving in their former capacities:

• Piers Cawley: Former parrot/perl6 summarizer.
• Simon Cozens: Former parrot pumpking (versions 0.0.1 through 0.0.4).
• Matt Fowles: Former parrot/perl6 summarizer.
• Ann Barcomb: Former parrot/perl6 summarizer.
• Steve Fink: Former parrot pumpking (versions 0.0.9 through 0.0.12).
• Jeff Goff: Former parrot pumpking (versions 0.0.5 to 0.0.8).
• Luke Palmer: Former Perl 6 language list monitor and co-author of the retroactive Synopses.
• Chip Salzenberg: Former parrot pumpking and the parrot architect, and a large contributor.
• Dan Sugalski: Former parrot architect.
• Leopold Tötsch: Leo was the pumpking for releases 0.0.13 - 0.4.5, and for some time was a larger contributor. Also see "People of Perl: Leopold Toetsch".
• Nathan Torkington: Former project manager emeritus.
• Jesse Vincent: The former Perl 6 project manager. An expert at the "stick and carrot" approach to open source development.
• Bryan Warnock: Used to compile the Perl 6 Digest with Simon Cozens. Yes, that Warnock.