What’s in a name? that which we call a rose (William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, Act II Scene ii)

I went to FOSDEM in Brussels this year as a representative of the Perl Foundation. As such I spent the weekend doing my best to be a good advocate of the Perl programming languages.

FOSDEM for those of you in gentle unawareness is probably the world's largest, free, Open Source event. It is held each year in Brussels, Belgium, and attracts speakers for hundreds of talks on dozens of projects,…