Because I think folk will be inclined to refer to and even hype this Craig&#x27;s List hosted &quot;event&quot; as something akin to a launch of Perl 6 1.0.<p>Some will be well-meaning.<p>Some will be malicious.<p>But it won&#x27;t matter. Perl 6 and Larry won&#x27;t be even close to ready by October 5th (imo) for the expectations and exposure that would inevitably follow.<p>Imo we get just one more shot at fairly easily getting a significant chunk of the tech world to voluntarily strongly focus on Perl 6 for 15 minutes. We can and hopefully will maintain control of <i>when</i> that happens even if we can&#x27;t control anything else.<p>It&#x27;s going to be damn hard (but just about doable, one hopes) to make Perl 6 good enough -- as a flawed but at least interesting 1.0 -- to withstand and ultimately profit from the spike in scrutiny following a launch this christmas. If we launch (in the public&#x27;s eye) now, I predict we&#x27;ll get widely dismissed and will have already blown most of the unique and precious opportunity currently still available if we instead make sure that the launch, and perception of a launch, waits until christmas.<p>So, I do hope they record this Craig&#x27;s List presentation for historical purposes but keep it for private viewing only until <i>after</i> christmas. (Or maybe put out a very short video of some highlights, making it clear it&#x27;s not yet the launch. And maybe, just maybe, spend a couple weeks or so producing something reasonably slick, blending highlights with some other material, to try attract more contributors in the run up to christmas.)<p>Imo, Christmas really needs to wait until Christmas and I pray that it does.