Pm's #parrotsketch report for 2007-02-27

Miscellaneous:
* Apologies for missing last week's #parrotsketch -- I had a
  business trip come up for all day Tuesday.
* 02-17 Bugday was fun and successful, thanks to all who participated
February "Socorro" release:
* Release went extremely smoothly
* Many thanks to particle++ for having tested/improved the release instructions
* Many thanks to everyone who updated NEWS, CREDITS, etc. prior to release
* I made more updates to the RELEASE_INSTRUCTIONS and other documents
* I have a few more tickets to enter and documentation updates to make
  arising from the release
Pynie:
* Attended PyCon 2007 this past weekend
* So, I wrote a Python compiler for Parrot, dubbed "Pynie"
* Gave a presentation on Parrot on Friday
* It was very well attended
* Lots of good questions
* People were surprised (and pleased) that Parrot was still moving forward
* Several people liked the toolset we're building
PAST-pm:
* Added a simple "list binding" operator, to bind lists of variables
  and expressions

Plan for this week:
* Get 01-sanity/ running in time for this weekend's Hackathon (hopeful)
* At the least, provide some specific tasks that people can be working on
* Answer questions and provide support to others (kjs++, smash++)
  who are contributing things to pynie
* See what it may take to move perl6 closer to the "standard grammar"
  being crafted by $Larry