Hi Steve, The thing is, so much programming these days has shifted into app development for iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile. The hard fact is that wxPerl will never be as popular again as it was before the post-PC era. My own opinion of course.
I originally came from Perl/Tk, which was immensely popular 15 years ago. Then, with the passing of Nick Ing-Simmons, the interest began to drop sharply. At present, Perl/Tk is completely dormant, and I can't see why anyone, in this modern age, would consider learning Perl/Tk. And that is a real shame, because Perl/Tk is actually very pleasant and powerful to work with. Thank goodness wxPerl is not in the same category yet. Now, having said that there are a couple of interesting things to consider. Depending how popular Perl 6 will become, if wxPerl were to be the first native GUI toolkit for Perl 6 programmers, I can see how that would spark renewed interest in wxPerl among the Perl community. Secondly, I subscribe to the Perl Weekly newsletter (http://perlweekly.com). They have a very large subscriber base which seems to be ever increasing. I think it would be a great idea to regularly submit a short article or blog post about different features that wxPerl has to offer. I would certainly be interested in contributing that way. By keeping wxPerl on the radar this way, who knows what might eventuate. Best Regards, Ron. On 5/02/16 1:44 AM, "Steve Cookson" <steveco.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Guys, > > I keep thinking how can we lower the barriers to wxPerl and increase its > uptake. > > I wondered if some online training might be quite nice. I would like > to try creating some online training videos, maybe we could upload > them to youtube or somewhere. I wondered if anyone knew of any > classroom software that would allow us to do that. > > In the absence of any decent and free conferencing software that would > allow us to video conference, share screens, ask interactive questions > and of course record it for posterity, we could use Google Hangouts > for the time being. > > Therefore, I would like to invite you to an initial video Hangout. > The subject would be "How to create a simple data entry screen with > wxPerl". We'd cover the basic layout of a window and how to collect > data from it. I'd like to invite everyone to join in, if you are more > experienced, please feel free to join in and contribute your own > ideas, if you are interested in the wxPerl book, please join in and we > could use the information we generate for samples and parts of a > chapter, if you just want to learn, then even better. > > We are in all sorts of time zones, so I suggest if we did it late > evening UK time, it would be early morning antipodean time and daytime > in the US, sorry India. > > What do people think? Would that work? > > Regards > > Steve.
