Start of advent 2013 planning

Author: perlpilot

misc/perl6advent-2013/schedule

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Please add your topic and name after each day that you plan to take
+ 1 State of Perl 6
+ 2
+ 3
+ 4
+ 5
+ 6
+ 7
+ 8
+ 9
+10
+11
+12
+13
+14
+15
+16
+17
+18
+19
+20
+21
+22
+23
+24
+25 Christmas!

misc/perl6advent-2013/topic-brainstorming

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+(seeded from last year's topics)
+
+= Unused topics
+
+- Perlito
+- Query RC's API to get a list of all the pages with Perl 6 examples.
+- Heredocs
+- Who's who?
+- A look at what Perl 6 borrows from other languages
+- Perl 6 culture
+- What has changed with Rakudo since last year?
+- native types
+- is everything a reference? (compare https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/where-have-all-the-references-gone/)
+- gather and coroutines are equal in power
+- show off some nice modules
+- sockets
+- show off Date/DateTime
+- roles, role conflicts, and disambiguators (DrunkenGymnast!)
+- cool things you can do with bigints and/or rats
+- neat tricks for working with lazy lists
+- overview of available, useful modules with small example programs
+- learning resources (where do people find help?)
+- Perl 5/Perl 6 comparison (pick a nice problem or two and hilight the
+  differences.  Rosetta Code?)
+- A look at Niecza 
+- nci (compare https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/day-15-calling-native-libraries-from-perl-6/)
+- "porting" a module from one implementation to another
+- Unary sort
+    - see http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2011-12-14#i_4833227
+- doc.perl6.org
+- port a small piece of code from imperative to functional or OO style
+- typed exceptions
+- Obtaining and installing
+    - for each current implementation
+