Perl Masons

The Perl Community - A Modest Proposal

Marketing

Mark Keating

Marketing

More Perl Programmers

Is this a good idea?

Think about it

Matt's Script Archive

More Perl Programmers

More Bad Perl Programmers

Is popularity what we really want?

Average IQ of a community is inversely proportional to number of members of that community

Perl Mongers

Monger

1: (UK) A dealer in a specific commodity, normally used in combination “costermonger”

2: A person promoting something undesirable, always used in combination “warmonger”

Perl Monks

Let's look elsewhere

Perl Masons

Popularity

Exclusivity

Secret Society

Membership by invitation only

Larry as Grand Master

Secret monthly meetings

Arcane knowledge passed on

Obscure web sites

The Perl Foundation goes underground

Acme::Bleach

Secret handshake

Increased cool factor

£€$ (€

You know it makes sense

Say No to Perl marketing

Say Yes to Perl Masons

The first rule of Perl Club ...

Dave Cross [email_address] @davorg

by Dave Cross

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