The Perl Community
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The Perl Community is large and diverse, with various groups and online resources that have evolved over time. It began primarily on Usenet and mailing lists but has expanded to include conferences like YAPC, local Perl Monger groups, mailing lists on many topics, blogs, IRC channels, and more. The document encourages the reader to get involved in the community by participating in discussions, projects, learning opportunities, or social events like conferences and meetups.
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The Perl Community
- 3. The Perl Community is a large and complex place
- 5. I've been exploring it for over ten years
- 6. Let me be your guide
- 8. But first Some history
- 10. Our story begins in the mid 90s
- 11. The Perl Community is small and disorganised
- 13. And largely based around Usenet
- 14. And a few mailing lists
- 15. In 1997 O'Reilly organised the first Perl Conference
- 17. Many Perl people meet each other face to face for the first time
- 18. The idea of Perl Mongers is born
- 20. The use of the camel image in association with the Pyramids is a trademark of Rameses & Co. Used with permission
- 21. Over the following years the community grows and diversifies
- 22. Let's start at the top
- 25. Awards grants for Perl projects
- 26. Holds various Perl-related copyrights
- 27. Run various Perl web sites
- 28. Runs YAPC
- 29. Runs YAPC * Not YAPC::Europe
- 31. Perl Monks
- 33. Perl advice web site
- 34. Post a Perl question
- 35. Get a good answer
- 36. And, often, many bad ones
- 38. High quality
- 39. See also Stack Overflow
- 40. perlmonks.org
- 41. Perl Mongers
- 43. Perl people in your town
- 44. And, often, in the pub
- 45. Social meetings
- 49. Always a good reason for a Perl Mongers meeting
- 50. pm.org
- 51. Mailing lists
- 54. Lists on every topic imaginable
- 55. 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
- 56. lists.perl.org
- 57. irc
- 60. Real-time chat
- 63. Module support
- 64. Just chat
- 65. irc.perl.org
- 66. Blogs
- 68. Perl people writing about Perl
- 69. Dozens of new blogs
- 70. New blogs starting all the time
- 71. Why not join in?
- 72. blogs.perl.org
- 73. Blog aggregators
- 75. Perl Iron Man
- 77. Conferences
- 80. Meet Perl people from all over the world
- 81. And drink with them
- 82. And discuss Perl with them
- 83. Keep up to date with the latest Perl technology
- 84. Learn about cool things people are doing with Perl
- 85. Share cool things you are doing with Perl
- 86. Meet old friends
- 87. Make new friends
- 88. And drink with them
- 89. YAPC
- 90. All over the world
- 92. OSCON
- 93. Lots of Open Source technology
- 94. Grew out of The Perl Conference
- 95. oscon.com
- 96. Perl Workshops
- 97. One-day grass roots Perl conferences
- 98. Free (or very cheap)
- 99. All over the world
- 100. Too many to list
- 102. The Perl Community has something for everyone
- 103. If you want to talk about Perl
- 104. If you want to hack on Perl projects
- 105. If you want to learn more about Perl
- 106. If you want to share your Perl knowledge
- 107. If you want to drink beer with geeks
- 108. Please join us
- 109. It'll be fun