The Perl Foundation is pleased to be working with and promoting Kevin Carillo’s research into newcomer experience and contributor behavior in Perl and other FOSS communities. You also can help by taking the time to fill out this survey. Kevin is a PhD candidate in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington. [...]
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The Dao of Presenting
Have you ever presented anything, or are you ever going to present anything? From giving a keynote in front of a ten thousand strong audience to a short five minute business presentation to office peers? Do you wish you had the skills to give the very best presentation you could? Do you wish there was [...]
Lunch++
A great idea… At YAPC::NA::2012 brian d foy came up with an interesting idea. He said why don’t a few of the more well known of the Perl community, Perl celebrities if you wish to use the term, place their names on a board and allow up to four guests to go to lunch with [...]
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 [...]
Perl ‘Local’ Community Calendar
Last week there was a small discussion on Twitter about the Perl Review Community Calendar about adding events to this resource, thankfully brian d foy has made it a trivial matter to commit to this resource and you can get a commit bit from him or Renée Bäcker to do this. During the discussion we [...]
An Almost Perfect Present
Damian Speaks If you have never heard of Damian Conway then allow me to introduce you to him(1). Damian Conway is a world-class trainer, speaker and presenter, he is also a programmer, author and educator. It is true that he is well renowned in the realms of Perl where he has been a contributor to, [...]
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 [...]
Perl 25
So this year is, if I have followed the dates correctly and someone is going to shout at me if I am wrong (hopefully @TimToady will put me right), the 25th Anniversary since the release of Perl 1.0. So I think we should do something groovy to celebrate this. At this point I am collecting [...]
Perl Rocks Latin America
A Perl Team wins a web app. competition There is often a description, a type, bandied at Perl that you cannot build an application in the language in a short period of time and so it isn’t suitable for the apparent ‘fast-paced’ and ‘flexible’ web development world. A group of Perl hackers in Brazil turned [...]
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 [...]
