The following is posted on behalf of Roman Filippov and Al Newkirk, kindly share your thoughts on the mentioned points.

I would like to propose the following items for discussion, in no particular order. This is just a brain dump of the ideas I have been thinking for a while now.

• Perl ecosystem needs better branding and a style guide. It needs to be more iconic and recognizable. Possibly we need to crowdfund a campaign to hire some agency to design that. E.g. maybe overhaul the logo, provide logo style guides, color guides, language, etc. We need to make Perl sexy, and…

My current contract is lovely. I'm having a lot of fun and the environment is awesome. However, it's a short contract. I took it, in part, because it was a problem space I wanted to do more work in. Because it's a short contract I'm already working on negotiating my next contract (a perpetual hobby for freelancers), but I thought I'd experiment with a different approach: asking you to reach out to me. If you think I can help your company and you're not in a position to hire me directly, go to those who are and talk to them. If you want to hire me or one of the talented developers who works with me, drop me a line (I can't guarantee that I'm available, but you never know). If this approach works, I can do more work on open source or Veure instead of spending all of my "between" time negotiating contracts.

That being said, I don't always get contracts I negotiate for and sometimes I turn them down. However, if you're an individual considering freelancing, I thought it worth discussing some of the obstacles I've faced.

The organisers of the DBIx::Class hackathon would like to extend our thanks and warmest regards to CTRL O (ctrolo.com) for their generous support of this year's hackathon.

CTRL O will sponsor the food for all the attendees on the day of the event and have done so to help contribute back to a project and community who have provided them with a magnificent tool and useful help via irc and mailing lists. We would like to extend our…

Looking at any number of differing sites that rate programming languages it is clear that since the early 2000s perl started a decline but has be happily chugging along at anywhere from 7.5% to 10% depending on which site you look at.

The TIOBE index is one as is langpop and they have their way to create their results. Mostly they look at github, Stack Overflow and Google searches.

Somehow F# is trending upward. But is it because its is better or is it becaus…

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about comparing percentages I have to contribute my thoughts.
I read some other posts about computer language rankings. Some supposedly based on web traffic
and others on books sales.
All this posts do mention some kind of measurements based on numbers. But I think that there are
other view points or considerations to take int…

If you have a customer who complains about something, don’t ignore it, no matter how crazy you think the complaint may be. If it can happen once, it can happen again; and more importantly, how many times has it already happened and nobody brought it up? 

The supporting slides for the YAPC::EU lightning talk that I had in the first day of the conference are here:

Because the slides are just a few and the presentation was in a rush, I wrote a extended blog post regarding what is PRForge…

At YAPC::NA 2013 I pitched the idea that Perl needs more startups. I've created a lot of startups myself, but I haven't seen too many coming from the community. To my surprise a lot of people came up to me afterwards asking for advice on how to get started. So I've started a blog on the subjects of startups and marketing.

To my surprise, we've already been seeing ="http://…

If you are a software developer and have created or are creating a start-up, then please do not forget about building a web services API. Not only will it be an excellent way to build out a web site and connect mobile clients, but a web services API can be an excellent marketing tool. 

A couple years ago I ran a conference called YAPC, and I challenged myself to write a blog post every single day for a year about that conference. It annoyed a few people, but it taught me a valuable lesson about marketing…that daily touch point is important. If you run a blog, a Facebook page, or a Twitter account, you should attempt to post something to it every day. It makes it more interesting for the people that follow you. It keeps them coming back. And if you’re super busy like me, feel free to queue up some posts so that you don’t…