4 reasons:

1: Right man.I was there when it started. At German Perl Workshop this march in Berlin Richard ignited with his inofficial keynote a lot of controversy. All what said wasn't new or IMO just opinion or chatter/not relevant. Later I spoke with him @ the social meeting in the computer game museum. (seriously, is there a better place for such an event?)

During our conversation I found out: he listens to people, he really loves Perl and he's the right kind of Person to d…