Feather accounts available for new users

(This message is primarily for those who know what feather is, or do not need guidance to find out. That's why I'm not going to introduce feather, and will just assume you know about it already.)

Feather has recently seen a memory upgrade from 1 GB to 2 GB. As memory is the greatest bottleneck (waiting for CPU time is much better that waiting for memory/disk swapping), this means that feather can now handle more simultaneous users.

Many existing feather users have indicated that they are currently deprived of tuits to work on Perl 6, so that frees up even more resources.

If you think you could put feather access to good use, in any way to the benefit of any of the Perl 6 projects, please request an account by sending me an email (juerd AT feather.perl6.nl) in which you explicitly ask for an account. Make sure that the message includes your real name, preferred username, and what you think you will use feather for. Do not request an account by other means.

To answer the most frequently asked question: yes, playing with Perl 6 and reporting bugs (as unit tests) *is* a valid use of feather, even if you're writing "just" a simple wiki or IRC bot. And to answer the second most frequently asked question: Yes, using feather for discussing Perl 6 by e-mail (username@feather.perl6.nl; mutt and webmail are available) or IRC (screen+irssi and webirc are available) is also a good use of the machine.

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }

Update: title changed to something more descriptive, per chatterbox request.

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Re: Feather accounts available for new users by jZed (Prior) on Feb 08, 2006 at 18:00 UTC
(This message is primarily for those who know what feather is, or do not need guidance to find out. That's why I'm not going to introduce feather, and will just assume you know about it already.) That statement is 36 words long. Is feather something so complex that it can't be explained in 36 words? A google search for "feather perl" yields 217,000 hits most of which are about "Birds of a Feather" meetings at OSCON or some reference to Apache's feather icon. The most relevant one was a perl6 message from you which also failed to describe what "feather" is, although it appears to be a machine rather than a software. Yes, sure I could dig further to find out what you are talking about, but why should I bother?	[reply]
Re^2: Feather accounts available for new users by chromatic (Archbishop) on Feb 08, 2006 at 18:49 UTC
Feather is a box Juerd keeps up to date with the latest Pugs and Parrot code. He gives out accounts to people who'd like to help develop the two. (29 words; weird golf challenge.)	[reply]
Re^3: Feather accounts available for new users by GrandFather (Saint) on Feb 08, 2006 at 19:54 UTC
Feather: Juerd maintained box with latest Pugs, Parrot code. Accounts available to developers. (13 words; weird golf challenge.) DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re^4: Feather accounts available for new users by rob_au (Abbot) on Feb 08, 2006 at 20:01 UTC
Re^5: Feather accounts available for new users by GrandFather (Saint) on Feb 08, 2006 at 20:07 UTC
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Re^3: Feather accounts available for new users by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Feb 08, 2006 at 21:06 UTC
weird golf challenge 9: Feather is a test bed for Pugs and Parrot. -- John.	[reply]
Re^4: Feather accounts available for new users by Juerd (Abbot) on Feb 08, 2006 at 22:24 UTC
Re^3: Feather accounts available for new users by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 08, 2006 at 20:30 UTC
More like a newspaper headline challenge. :-)	[reply]
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Re^2: Feather accounts available for new users by Juerd (Abbot) on Feb 08, 2006 at 22:27 UTC
A google search for "feather perl" yields 217,000 hits most of which are about "Birds of a Feather" meetings at OSCON or some reference to Apache's feather icon. That's funny, the second hit I get is http://perlcabal.org/cgi-bin/finger.pl, which provides a more complete view of what feather is than any of the descriptions in this thread. Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }	[reply]
Re^3: Feather accounts available for new users by cyclist38 (Hermit) on Feb 09, 2006 at 15:38 UTC
second hit here too. but then we're both searching from the netherlands...	[reply]
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Re: Feather accounts available for new users by liz (Monsignor) on Feb 08, 2006 at 23:06 UTC
A nice piece of guerilla marketing! Congratulations, Juerd!	[reply]
Re^2: Feather accounts available for new users by Fletch (Bishop) on Feb 08, 2006 at 23:53 UTC
Juerd's selling gorillas to pugs that know Haskell? `/boggle` Talk about your niche market . . .	[reply]
Re^2: Feather accounts available for new users by Juerd (Abbot) on Feb 09, 2006 at 01:01 UTC
A nice piece of guerilla marketing! Congratulations, Juerd! Marketing?! Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }	[reply]
Re^3: Feather accounts available for new users by woolfy (Chaplain) on May 02, 2006 at 07:36 UTC
A nice piece of guerilla marketing! Congratulations, Juerd! Marketing?! It really is a well-known term in marketing and PR business: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_marketing Small companies can be very successful without ever spending a dime on an advertisement. When a group of Perl Mongers prepare for a YAPC or a Perl Workshop, they practise guerilla marketing: mailinglists, forums, usenet, PM meetings, targeted press releases, blogs, podcasts, Perl and programming websites, maybe even leaflets in internet cafe's or elsewhere, or posters at the local university or highschool. Low-cost, word-of-mouth, grass-roots.	[reply]
Re^3: Feather accounts available for new users by ysth (Canon) on Feb 12, 2006 at 02:31 UTC
Presumably meant in the sense of advocacy via publicity.	[reply]


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