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<b>Updated Nov 2013</b>. Reformatted, tweaked content, mentioned videos and jnthn's slides.
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<b>Added Dec 2013</b>. [http://edumentab.github.io/rakudo-and-nqp-internals-course/|re: 'internal architecture/design for hackers'].
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If you last looked more than 18 months ago, I'd say the doc situation has significantly improved. There isn't a complete manual by any means, but perhaps what is now in place is enough to get some folk up to speed.
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<b>New since summer 2012 or thereabouts:</b>
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<li>There's a solid start of what may become the complete manual you seek. This is <a href="http://doc.perl6.org">p6doc</a>, a Perl 6 analog to Perl 5's perldoc led by Moritz Lenz. [https://github.com/perl6/doc/issues|Issues] and patches are welcome at its github repo (a link is in the footer of its pages).
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<li>Carl Mäsak wrote a month long series of daily blogs taking the reader from <a href="http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/another-month-of-blogging-adventure-game-here-i-come">an introduction to P6</a> through to writing <a href="http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/july-31-2012-the-finished-game">a small game in P6</a>.
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<li>Carl Mäsak created and ran <a href="http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/the-2012-perl-6-coding-contest">a Perl 6 programming competition</a> (he's published results for <a href="http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/t1-tell-knights-from-knaves">knights-from-knaves</a> and <a href="http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/t2-rectangle-haikus">rectangle haikus</a>).
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<li>Carl Mäsak prepared and hosted the <a href="http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/the-masakism-workshop">#masakism workshop</a> teaching good programming practice in both Perl 5 and 6 (considered by him a <a href="http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/after-the-masakism-workshop">success</a>. He subsequently scheduled a <a href="https://github.com/perl6/mu/wiki/perl6-workshop-june-2013">repeat on June 19</a>).
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<li>Carl Mäsak prepared and presented three <b>Zero to Perl 6 training sessions</b> as part of <a href="http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/talks/tag/%E8%9D%B6">the Perl 6 elements of YAPC::NA</a> held in early June. Videos of at least some of these are on youtube.
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<li><a href="http://perl6maven.com/starting-again-with-rakudo-perl6">Gabor Szabo began building up his Perl 6 Maven site</a>.
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<li>jnthn has added [http://jnthn.net/articles.shtml|many excellent PDFs] corresponding to talks he's given at various conferences. (Unfortunately the index I've linked to is out of date at the time I'm writing this; please bug him on #perl6 to update it!)
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<li>There are [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRuESFRW2Fa77XObvk7-BYVFwobZHdXdK|a bunch of videos on youtube].
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Of course, some doc related projects started more than a year ago have been further developed. Most notably, Larry Wall, with help from a few others, has pushed the count of <a href="http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Perl_6">Perl 6 Rosettacode entries</a> to around 600.
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(Talking of Larry, he has said he is working toward publishing an O'Reilly book, a Perl 6 equivalent of the Perl 5 "bible" Programming Perl.)
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With all that said, a word of caution. If by "user" you mean relying on Perl 6 the way someone might rely on Perl 5, things are far, far from that. Perl 6 won't be able to support users and doesn't need contributors in the way that Perl 5 supports users and needs contributors; Perl 6 can only support users willing to work with it despite its many weaknesses and relatively high rate of change from release to release.
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Hth someone!
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