New Committee Members As announced on the front page of the Perl Foundation, and my pleasure to repeat here, the Perl Foundation Marketing Committee has three new members in the form of: Torsten ‘Getty’ Raudssus Jess ‘Castaway’ Robinson Ian ‘IDN’ Norton This is part of a continuing move to further the goals and aims of [...]
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Advertise Further
Refreshing the Perl AdServer I would like to encourage the further development of the Perl Ad Server. For those of you who don’t know what this is, it is an initiative by Gabor Szabo to bring community elements to a broader audience by a series of links that can be displayed on a website and [...]
GSoC – Update and Flyers
Introduction As I mentioned in the last post on this subject the Perl Foundation will attempt to be a participating organisation in this year’s Google Summer of Code and is seeking your help. We are using the Enlightened Perl Organisation‘s MojoMojo blog, there is already a Perl and GSoC main page for this year’s participation [...]
London Perl Workshop 2011
Reflection, part two In my first post on Friday I reflected on the fact that this year’s London Perl Workshop was the fourth event that I had organised, in this post I want to talk about this year after the event and some elements around it. If you build it… In preparing for this year’s [...]
Terms of Search
a.k.a. I need your help 2 [1] I would like some help from the community, I want a list of terms, what would you search for if you were looking for things relating to Perl? What keywords or buzz words would you use? What terms, names or words would you expect to see in articles, [...]
GSoC – Next year’s flyer
The Perl Foundation Perl GSoC Before we begin I just wish to state that I haven’t gone insane I just have channeled the spirit of Baden Powell and am working in advance so that we can function efficiently later this year. So I am proud to present to you the current working copy of the [...]
Cry Havoc and let slip the ‘Raptors*
If you have been following the thread about a logo for Perl5, you may have come across the post by Kraih (http://blog.kraih.com/a-logo-for-perl-5) (Kraih is Sebastian Riedel, original author of Catalyst, Mojolicious and sri on irc) which described how he was enthused to create a logo for Perl5 (after a conversation we both had), something we [...]
Common Market Policy*
Perl Foundation Homepage Enlightened Perl Organisation Homepage As I have mentioned here many times I am involved with the marketing and promotion of Perl. This started as a need to promote Perl in connection with my company, Shadowcat Systems Limited, and then a growing desire to make sure that the image and information about the [...]
TPF.Perl Badge and Like Button
The Perl Foundation‘s Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/tpf.perl) is gathering a tidy momentum and it is now time for us to produce badges and like buttons that you can use on your websites, blogs etc. The first item is the badge below: The Perl Foundation This is the code that you can cut and paste into your [...]
More GSOC
As you may know from reading my last post the Google Summer of Code gives students the chance to involve themselves with an open source project and this year the efforts on behalf of The Perl Foundation (TPF) are being run by Florian Ragwitz (Rafl). The first stage of this process (the accepting of the [...]
