At YAPC::EU 2010 in Pisa I received a business card with Rakudo Star and the date July 29, 2010 which was the date of the first release -- a week earlier with a countdown to 1200 UTC. I still have...

   There is a Release Candidate for Rakudo Star 2016.11 (currently RC2) available at http: pl6anet.org drop This includes binary installers for Windows and Mac. Usually Star is released about every three months but last month’s release didn’t include a Windows installer so...

   We turned up in Cluj via Wizz Air to probably one of the best pre YAPC parties ever located on three levels on the rooftop of Evozon ’s plush city centre offices. We were well supplied with excellent wine, snacks and...

   The meeting first night was in a large beer bar in the centre of Nuremberg. We went back to the Best Western to find a certain exPumpkin already resident in the bar. Despite several of the well named Bitburgers we...

   To me It seemed a particularly good FOSDEM for both for Perl5 6 and other talks although very crowded as usual and I didn’t see the usual BSD or Tor stalls. I was stuck by the statistic that there were about...