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The Perl Community
Dave Cross [email_address]
The Perl Community is a large and complex place
Many interesting corners
I've been exploring it for over ten years
Let me be your guide
 
But first Some history
 
Our story begins in the mid 90s
The Perl Community is small and disorganised
 
And largely based around Usenet
And a few mailing lists
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
Share cool things you are doing with Perl
Meet old friends
Make new friends
And drink with them
YAPC
All over the world
yapc.org yapceurope.org
OSCON
Lots of Open Source technology
Grew out of The Perl Conference
oscon.com
Perl Workshops
One-day grass roots Perl conferences
Free (or very cheap)
All over the world
Too many to list
theperlreview.com/community_calendar
The Perl Community has something for everyone
If you want to talk about Perl
If you want to hack on Perl projects
If you want to learn more about Perl
If you want to share your Perl knowledge
If you want to drink beer with geeks
Please join us
It'll be fun
Photo Credits ,[object Object]
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