The concept

If there's one thing I like more than writing code, it's talking about code. My best memories about code usually involve a late night discussion with a drink in one hand and no keyboard in the other.

In 2024, I seriously started listening to podcasts. "Live conversation with eventual interventions from the audience" is the format I find to be the closest to the bar conversations I like so much, and I'd love to listen to (and chat with) my friends from the open source community, talking about random mostly technical topics.

So, I figured I should just try it! How hard can it be to setup a conference call, invite a few interesting people, pick a topic to start the conversation, hit "record", and stop after roughly one hour? And make the recording public afterwards, for others to enjoy.

(If you don't like the undertones of "bar", you can think of this as "campfire stories".)

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Episode 2 - Perl 42

The next version of Perl is going to be v5.42.0. Or maybe 42.0? Listen to Perl leaders arguing about what version numbers represent, and what it means to change one.

Cast (in order of appearance): Philippe Bruhat, Olaf Alders, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Neil Bowers, Jesse Vincent, Ricardo Signes.

Recorded on Friday, February 28, 2025. Edited by Thibault Duponchelle. Thanks to The Perl and Raku Foundation for letting us use their Zoom license to record the episode.

Episode 1 - Perl Leadership

For this episode, we assembled a cast of Perl leaders, and talked about Perl versions. At the end of the scheduled time, we hadn't started discussing the planned controversial topic, so we kept talking, and split the episode in two parts. To be continued...

Cast (in order of appearance): Philippe Bruhat, Olaf Alders, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Neil Bowers, Jesse Vincent, Ricardo Signes.

Recorded on Friday, February 28, 2025. Edited by Thibault Duponchelle. Thanks to The Perl and Raku Foundation for letting us use their Zoom license to record the episode.

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