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

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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