It’s coming up to ten days since my last post and if I don’t post something soon my Iron Man status will drop back to paper. And we don’t want that to happen, do we? But I don’t have anything new to write about. My spare time recently has been largely taken up by preparing […]
Tag: community
Marketing Perl
People seem to be coming round to the idea that Perl needs better marketing. Both Ovid and Gabor have written some interesting blog posts recently. What Does the Outside of Perl Look Like? Defining the Marketing Problem Solutions Are Not Problems. Problems Are Problems Perception is Reality – we need a director of marketing Is […]
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White Camels 2009
At OSCON last night the winners of this year’s White Camel awards were announced. Unless you were involved in the discussions to choose the winners or were at OSCON, you won’t have known that as there has been no announcement on any of the usual Perl news sites. And TPF wonder why people complain that […]
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Send-a-Newbie
The Send-a-Newbie project is the Perl community at its best. People with a bit of spare money have donated to a fund to send people to YAPC::Europe. Edmund von der Burg and a team of trusted helpers have counted the money and closely examined the applications that they received. Edmund writes: First, a quick recap: […]
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Forthcoming London.pm Meetings
Here’s some advance notice of a couple of london.pm meetings. The next social meeting will be on Thursday June 4th at the Gunmakers. Social meetings are a chance for people to get together over a drink and talk about whatever takes their fancy (sometimes, that even includes Perl). There’s also a tradition that the leader […]