<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span class="tab"> Hey D, M, O, <br> Please create a ticket, (or not) to add the text:<br> "</span>This site is about the Perl programming language, especially for Perl Programmers"<br>on the main page, per Gabor's request.<br><br>I've mocked up the meetup.com main page, so feedback to the list.<br>/jordan<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Gabor Szabo <gabor@szabgab.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
PM Groups <pm_groups@pm.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, August 9, 2013 11:24:04 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [pm_groups] Perl programming on the Perl Monger web sites - use of our web assets<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Hi,<br><br>Recently Mithaldu sent out another call to add "Perl programming" to<br>our web sites.<br><a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/mithaldu/2013/08/do-your-piece-to-fix-tiobe-or-stop-talking-about-it.html" target="_blank">http://blogs.perl.org/users/mithaldu/2013/08/do-your-piece-to-fix-tiobe-or-stop-talking-about-it.html</a><br><br>In general I don't think that this will solve the major issues Perl is<br>facing, but a few<br>comments on <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1jvq3f/do_your_piece_to_fix_tiobe_or_stop_talking_about/"
target="_blank">http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1jvq3f/do_your_piece_to_fix_tiobe_or_stop_talking_about/</a><br>convinced me that we are actually misleading TIOBE, and any other<br>organization comparing these expressions.<br>While you don't care how TIOBE ranks Perl, other people base their<br>perception and decisions on that.<br><br>Here is the quote that most convinced me:<br><br>"Of the first 20 hits for Perl, 17 are actual hits on Perl. Meanwhile<br>for the 20 Python results, 5 are actually about the programming<br>language."<br><br>So I went ahead and update my two main sites:<br>The Perl Weekly <a href="http://perlweekly.com/" target="_blank">http://perlweekly.com/ </a>and the Perl Maven: <a href="http://perlmaven.com/" target="_blank">http://perlmaven.com/</a><br>adding a sentence with "Perl Programming" in it to every page.<br>I have some more sites to change this way, but I'd like to go and call<br>all the Perl Monger leaders.<br><br>We
have some very powerful web assets in our hands. Even if not many<br>people visit<br>the individual Perl Monger sites, they are respected by Google.<br><br>So we can use them to promote other Perl-related assets and to point out more<br>web site talking about "Perl Programming" and "Perl Programmers".<br><br>So It would be awesome if you could check your web site and make sure<br><br>1) it works<br>2) it has links to some important web site<br><br>I even created a recommended list for you based on what I<br>saw at <a href="http://houston.pm.org/" target="_blank">http://houston.pm.org/ </a>with some personal tweaks.<br>Please put your "area of service" instead of the dots and pick the links<br>you'd like to endorse:<br><br>This site is about the Perl programming language, especially for Perl<br>Programmers in<br>....<br><br><ul><br><li class="head">External resources</li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/"
target="_blank">http://blogs.perl.org/</a>">Perl Blogs</a></li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/" target="_blank">http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/</a>">Planet Perl Iron Man</a></li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/" target="_blank">http://www.perlmonks.org/</a>">The Perl Monastery</a></li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://metacpan.org/" target="_blank">http://metacpan.org/</a>">Meta CPAN</a></li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://www.perl.org/" target="_blank">http://www.perl.org/</a>">The Perl Directory</a></li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://www.perl.com/" target="_blank">http://www.perl.com/</a>">Perl.com</a></li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://padre.perlide.org/" target="_blank">http://padre.perlide.org/</a>" title="perl
editor">Perl<br>IDE</a></li><li class="head">News</li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://perlbuzz.com/" target="_blank">http://perlbuzz.com/</a>">Perl Buzz</a></li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://perlnews.org/" target="_blank">http://perlnews.org/</a>">Perl News</a></li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://perlsphere.net/" target="_blank">http://perlsphere.net/</a>">Perlsphere Aggregated Perl news</a></li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://perlweekly.com/" target="_blank">http://perlweekly.com/</a>">Perl Weekly news</a></li><br><li class="head">Tutorials</li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://perl-tutorial.org/" target="_blank">http://perl-tutorial.org/</a>">A Collection</a></li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://learn.perl.org/tutorials/"
target="_blank">http://learn.perl.org/tutorials/</a>">Perl tutorials</a></li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/" target="_blank">http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/</a>">Modern Perl Book</a></li><br><li><a href="<a href="http://perlmaven.com/perl-tutorial" target="_blank">http://perlmaven.com/perl-tutorial</a>">Perl Maven Tutorial</a></li><br></ul><br><br><br>Oh yes, just to "lead by example" I have already updated both<br><a href="http://rehovot.pm.org/" target="_blank">http://rehovot.pm.org/</a><br>and <a href="http://perl.org.il/" target="_blank">http://perl.org.il/ </a>with the expressions and with some of the links.<br><br>regards and have a wonderful weekend!<br><br> Gabor<br>-- <br>Request pm.org Technical Support via <a ymailto="mailto:support@pm.org" href="mailto:support@pm.org">support@pm.org</a><br><br>pm_groups mailing list<br><a
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