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Tommy Butler<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 28, 2014, John Fields <wigthft@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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</th><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Make Perl #1 on <a shape="rect" href="http://git.io/top">git.io/top</a></td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" colspan="1" nowrap>Date: </th><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:03:39 -0400</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" colspan="1" nowrap>From: </th><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Henry Van Styn via yapc
<a shape="rect" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jfields.yapcna.org=spammenot.com@pm.org"><jfields.yapcna.org=spammenot.com@pm.org></a></td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" colspan="1" nowrap>Reply-To:
</th><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Henry Van Styn
<a shape="rect" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jfields.yapcna.org=spammenot.com@pm.org"><jfields.yapcna.org=spammenot.com@pm.org></a></td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" colspan="1" nowrap>To: </th><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><a shape="rect" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:yapc@pm.org">yapc@pm.org</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
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I don’t normally send out messages like this, but I think this is
worthwhile, because it is a simple way we can promote our beloved
Perl to the larger OSS world, even if just a little…
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<div>I came across our very own Kent Fredric’s GitHub profile
today and did a double-take when I read his contrib stats:</div>
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<div> <a shape="rect" moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://github.com/kentfredric">https://github.com/kentfredric</a>
# "Year of contributions - 21,996 total”</div>
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<div>Without even speculating by what kind of
dedication/witchcraft this number is even possible, it made me
curious about stats in general for GitHub, and some googling
turned up this page:</div>
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<div> <a shape="rect" moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://git.io/top">http://git.io/top</a></div>
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<div>This is a report of the “Most Active” 256 GitHub users. Well,
not quite… The current number 1 on the list has HALF the
contribs (kevinsawicki at “11,430”). kentfredric doesn’t show up
because of this second caveat: "Only first 1000 GitHub users
according to the count of followers are taken. This is because
of limitations of GitHub search.” </div>
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<div>So, it seems all we need to do is have a few hundred people
follow kentfredric (based on followers counts of others who did
make the list) and the next time this report is generated, Kent,
and thus Perl, will take over the number 1 slot — and by a
commanding margin (as it should be) — and dethroning JavaScript.</div>
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<div>Currently, Perl is very poorly represented, with just a
handful of our luminaries showing up (with the first not coming
until #40).</div>
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<div>I’m not sure how important this report/page actually is, but,
I figure, why not if it is this easy! kentnl has already quietly
done the hard part by somehow managing to average over **60**
GitHub contributions per day, every day, for at least the past
365 days. All we have to do it make 2 clicks of the mouse, and
tell our coworkers to do the same. It seems like we can make
this happen in a blink of an eye…</div>
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<div>kentfredric++</div>
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<div>- vanstyn</div>
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<div>Henry Van Styn</div>
<div><<a shape="rect" moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:vanstyn@cpan.org">vanstyn@cpan.org</a>> </div>
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