[Van-pm] re-hyping the hype machine

[Chris Simmons]

Thanks Jay - that looks pretty awesome. It's good to have people you out
there plugging the cause :)

Luke - I'd be for getting together with you sometime and hashing out some
camelcasts.

-chris

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:45 PM, J. Shirley <jshirley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Luke Closs <lukecloss at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hey,
> >
> > so i heard that 2009 is the year perl is making a huge comeback.
> >
> > how can we help?
> >
> > I have a vision: camelcasts
> >
> > Luke
> >
>
> I and several CPAN authors you may have heard of (mst, Marcus Ramberg)
> have banded together and formed a not-for-profit group based out of
> the UK (they let a silly American like me in as a board member...
> foolish brits) called Enlightened Perl.
>
> We're working towards marketing and showing that Perl is far from
> dead, and is in fact a brilliant language.  We're doing this through
> marketing grants and pushing the agenda of an opinion (something the
> Perl community generally lacks, with TIMTOWTDI)
>
> Part of that opinion is recommending core modules to use, and backing
> them with intelligent reasoning as to why.  Our current set consists
> most notably of Moose, Catalyst, DBIx::Class.  The whole list is
> available from the http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ website and also
> from the affiliated Task::Kensho module that is available on CPAN now.
>
> We also have several other facets that are cooking up but still under
> development, and anybody who wants to participate is more than
> welcome.
>
> Some of the inter-community projects are a blogging contest of sorts,
> to get people blogging and deliver both non-monetary and monetary
> awards.  My personal pet project is what I'm dubbing 52 Weeks of Perl,
> with the goal of getting Perl mentioned 52 times throughout the year
> in a major publication (either digital or print).
>
> We have a lot of ideas, and need even more hands to volunteer.  If you
> are interested in being a part of a grassroots Perl effort please let
> me know, or hop on irc.perl.org and join #epo or our mailing list,
> with information at http://www.enlightenedperl.org/
>
> Sorry if this sounds kinda canned and spammy, I honestly did just type
> this up without any forethought :)
>
> Thanks,
> -Jay
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