As posted earlier today, the first meeting of our New York City Perl 6
study group will be held:

Saturday, February 6, 1:00 - 3:00 pm

... with subsequent sessions to be held on the first Saturdays of March,
April, May and June.

Saturday, March 5
Saturday, April 2
Saturday, May 7
Saturday, June 4

As noted in an earlier email, this is *a* way of studying Perl 6 in NYC,
not *the* way.  If these dates don't work for you for any reason, please
feel free to start another group whose dates do, as there may be others
for which your dates will work better than those above.

Location (tentative):

d.b.a.
41 First Ave
Manhattan
between East 2 and East 3 Streets
http://tinyurl.com/gphhdja
(d.b.a.'s past website no longer appears to be working; the above is
from timeout.com)

Subway:

F-train to Second Ave; exit at First Ave (east) end of station

R.S.V.P:

If possible, please R.S.V.P. to me off-list at jkeen at verizon dot net.
I'm requesting this because if we get more than a certain number of
participants, I'll need to pre-arrange space with the manager.

Preparation for Meeting:

1. Try to get the Rakudo Star distribution of Perl 6 and Panda installed
on the laptop you will use at the session.  

Official instructions:
http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/

Good blog post by Mike Friedman:
http://friedo.com/blog/2016/01/exploring-perl-6-up-and-running

Good blog post by David Farrell:
http://perltricks.com/article/207/2015/12/31/How-to-get-Perl-6-now

By our first meeting a new version of Rakudo Star should be available.
But if it is not, the 2015.11 version will suffice.

2. 3-prong power strips will be helpful.

3. Think of what goals you would like to set for yourself for this
5-session group.

4. Think of what projects we might work on collectively during the five
sessions.

Reference:

I will post plain-text files related to this study group at:

http://thenceforward.net/perl/misc/nyc_perl6/

Example:  Notes on our January 18 meeting taken by Philip Hood:

http://thenceforward.net/perl/misc/nyc_perl6/20160118_00_meeting_notes.txt

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan