Read volume 1 here.
In my last post, I talked about some of the big things TPF (The Perl Foundation) does. This time, I'll discuss some of the smaller stuff I've handled at TPF, often with help from others, and my misses along the way. My opinions are my own.
White Camel Awards
The White Camel Awards, started by brian d foy in 1999, were created to honor Perl community contributors, who, like ninjas, do all the hard wor…
Shirts and hoodies are available in variety of colours, sizes and styles. Stickers, mugs, and phone covers are also all available. With proceeds from sales funding The Perl and Raku Foundation.
To celebrate the upcoming release of Perl 5.38 we are excited to offer Limited Edition* merchandise.
The design was a true team effort by the marketing committee and is inspired by the traditional Perl camel logo. We had a lot of fun throwing around ideas, then throwing them in to AI to see what it's randomness would come back with. We then passed the ideas to our artist for the final result.
Check them out on the ="https://the-pe…
The Perl and Raku Conference for 2023 will again feature a Hackathon Room. On July 10th, the Marketing Committee plans to coordinate activities for projects that have a broad impact on Perl.
We hope to involve 2-3 high impact projects and any number of smaller projects.
The committee will provide logistical and non-coding support for projects that want it…
Freewear now has Perl and Raku merch featuring Camelia, The Onion Logo and a Camel Shadow. A donation is made to TPRF for each sale.
The above plus …
Looking back over 2022 the Marketing Committee presents our accomplishments to the Board and the Communities we serve.
Our sincere and abundant thanks to all those who have volunteered their time to deliver these outcomes.
TPF has launched an online store with Perl merchandise (swag) celebrating the Perl 5.36 release. The marketing committee plan to do a custom celebratory collection for each release of Perl with revenue from each sale goes to TPF's Perl fund.
The store includes long- and short-sleeved t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies and stickers - all featuring a new Raptor image for the 5.36 release.
The current state: The Perl interpreter and most of CPAN are provided under the Artistic 1.0 license and the GPL1.0 license. The Artistic 1.0 license was written by Larry Wall and due to its problems Perl is simultaneously licensed under the GPL 1.0 License.
It is the de-facto standard to license software published to CPAN under the same terms as the Perl interpreter.
The Artistic 2.0 license supersedes the Artistic 1.0 license and is designed to overcome its problems. Raku uses this license as it was specifically created for Perl 6. Mojolicious also uses this license.
…On behalf of the Dancer Core Team, I'd like to announce the availability of Dancer2 0.301003. While there are a number of bug fixes and documentation improvements in this release, there are two new features that I'd like to point out:
Git support from the CLI: When scaffolding a new Dancer2 app from the command line, you can now initialize a new Git repository and set the remote all at once. Passing the --git option to dancer2 gen will initialize a new repository, and --remote will take a URL for your remote repository (git:// and https:// are both supported).
Out-of-the-box Docker support: There are a lot of ways to containerize your Dancer2 application, but sometimes we all need a little help getting started. Using the --docker argument to dancer2 gen creates a Dockerfile for your application based on the latest stable Perl image available. Once your application is generated, there are instructions for how to run your app via plackup or Docker.
You can read the complete changelog here. If you need help, please reach out on IRC (irc.perl.org#dancer) or our mailing list.
I'd like to thank Oliver Marketing for their contributions towards the development of Dancer2, and our community for the ideas, questions, bug reports, and support of the Core Team and what we do. Thanks for making our little slice of the greater Perl community a nice place to be.
Happy Dancing!
Jason/CromeDome
In this weeks TPF Marketing Committee meeting I made an elevator pitch for a "Perl Community Dashboard". It was well received so I have taken the action item to expound upon the idea here to gather more input. Understand this then as the minimum viable product to go from 0 to 1, something achievable that we can build upon.
The Goal:
Create a central web based "Dashboard" (think Grafana-ish) the brings together metrics from key Perl related websites (hereafter, mastheads) and potentially oth…
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