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The Perl Community
- A Modest Proposal
Marketing
Mark Keating
Marketing
Why?
More Perl Programmers
Is this a
good idea?
Think about it
1995
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
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
dave@dave.org.uk
@davorg
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