I borrowed your presentation, without asking for permission, but I needed something on the Perl community for the Nordic Perl Workshop 2010 in Reykjavik in Iceland - so I remembered you presentation from Pisa and downloaded it. It was very well received.
In 1997 O'Reilly organised the first Perl Conference
Many Perl people meet each other face to face for the first time
The idea of Perl Mongers is born
The use of the camel image in association with the Pyramids is a trademark of Rameses & Co. Used with permission
Over the following years the community grows and diversifies
Let's start at the top
The Perl Foundation
Awards grants for Perl projects
Holds various Perl-related copyrights
Run various Perl web sites
Runs YAPC
Runs YAPC * Not YAPC::Europe
www.perlfoundation.org
Perl Monks
Perl advice web site
Post a Perl question
Get a good answer
And, often, many bad ones
Many Perl experts
High quality
See also Stack Overflow
perlmonks.org
Perl Mongers
Perl people in your town
And, often, in the pub
Social meetings
Technical meetings
Heretical meetings
Emergency meetings
Always a good reason for a Perl Mongers meeting
pm.org
Mailing lists
Hundreds of lists
Lists on every topic imaginable
advocacy ai beginners bioperl community conference cpan crypto database db developer documentation games graphics internals interntl jobs lingua mac mail misc mod_perl module modules networking newsgroup oop os perl perl6 ports qa science sysadmin tk tools unicode web win32 www x10 xml xp yapc
lists.perl.org
irc
Real-time chat
Dozens of channels
Perl mongers groups
Module support
Just chat
irc.perl.org
Blogs
Perl people writing about Perl
Dozens of new blogs
New blogs starting all the time
Why not join in?
blogs.perl.org
Blog aggregators
planet.perl.org perlsphere.net
Perl Iron Man
ironman.enlightenperl.org
Conferences
Meet Perl people from all over the world
And drink with them
And discuss Perl with them
Keep up to date with the latest Perl technology
Learn about cool things people are doing with Perl
The Perl Community
No problem (of course). That's why I release these things under a Creative Commons licence. 2 years ago
I borrowed your presentation, without asking for permission, but I needed something on the Perl community for the Nordic Perl Workshop 2010 in Reykjavik in Iceland - so I remembered you presentation from Pisa and downloaded it. It was very well received.
I owe you one,
jonasbn 2 years ago