The Science Perl Journal, Issue #1 (Vol. 1, No. 1) is finally here!
After hundreds of hours of work and support from lots of people, the long promised Journal is here. That link will take you to some more information, on there a link to purchase is available. All proceeds go to supporting future Issues and events of the SPC and Perl Community Organization. At this time, an electronic version is not available due to end-of-year time constraints.
It may seem silly, but we spent extra time making sure the book spine looks good on a bookshelf and will look even better as the Issues accrue. Get it while it's hot. ISBN-13: 9798218984748, 152 pages.
Some of us are currently preparing for a block of Science Perl Talks at the London Perl & Raku Workshop 2024. We appreciate the organizers of this event for the opportunity.
More will be posted after the LPW, but the SPC is hosting the Perl Community Conference, Winter 2024 on December 18th (Perl's 37th birthday! :-)). If you are interested in getting published in the next Issue of the SPJ (Winter 2024), we are still accepting extended abstracts, which is up to 1 full page in the Journal and a 5 minute lightning talk slot at the Winter Conference.
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It's a shame you decided to promote this by spamming pretty much every Perl-related email address you could find. That really doesn't give a good impression of your work.
See Reddit for more discussion of this.
Sadly, doing ill-advised things like this without thinking through the likely results is becoming standard operating procedure for people in your little group.
Sigh. I'm sorry, David, I got a little overzealous and excited about the Journal; it made a misstep (one of many).
I am unable to reply to that libelous r/perl thread due to the same mod who posted it banning me 2 weeks ago for dubious reasons; an appeal to be reinstated so I could correct errors was denied to me, just this morning.
Here are some thoughts on the process we've just gone through. TLDR; it was a lot harder than we ever thought:
https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=11162295
Obviously, we are very much looking forward to the next Issue (Winter 2024)! :-)
And that's exactly the point of the final paragraph in my previous comment. I understand that this group is enthusiastic and I believe you genuinely want to help Perl. But you keep screwing up and annoying people.
There are people around in the community who have been doing stuff like this for a very long time. If you ask, we will give you advice. We don't want to see any part of the Perl community annoying people in the way that you all do. It is counterproductive.
I'm sorry. We're just not interesting in using you as our publisher.
Is that seriously what you thought I was talking about? Because it really wasn't. I have no interest in publishing your journal.
You all need help interacting with people. For a group that calls itself "The Perl Community" you're shocking bad at talking to the actual Perl community.
And I wasn't even really talking about me. There are plenty of people out there who could help you - or there would be, if you hadn't alienated them all.
"davorg" is this not you?
https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1g4bnx0/comment/ls63bkr/
BTW, people outside of the US have been apparently ordering or shipping the book via "myus.com", https://www.myus.com/stores/how-to-ship-barnes-noble-us/.
Yes, that's obviously me. I've used the same handle pretty much everywhere on the internet for about twenty-five years.
I was offering free advice. But I'm sure that plenty of people would have given similar advice if asked.
Honestly, I don't think that me publishing your journal would have worked - our working practices are too different. I did mildly hijack that comment thread to push my own service but, hey, at least I didn't spam the whole of the Perl community :-)
From your minutes, I see you're planning to apologise for the spamming. Once that apology is published in a suitably high-profile place, I think we can consider this incident closed.
You misread that, I was apologizing to the members of the Science Perl Committee for the trouble I caused them in going rogue. The minutes have not yet been approved, thanks for pointing that out. It should (and will when approved in 2 weeks) say that, "I apologize". We've dealt with it on an individual basis and consider the issue closed. I believe Will and you corresponded directly about. So you and the extremely small number of others who are holding yourselves in a state of feigned indignation, I am afraid, are going to be sorely disappointed. That's not to say I am not sorry (and I have indicated this), but I've eaten quite enough shit for this. It is time to move, lest you people find yourselves in a perpetual state of unforgiveness; which is not a good place to be.
Personal principle keeps me from throwing you off of b.p.o for this, but that doesn’t mean I don’t find it deeply embarrassing to be hosting such a marginally-apologetic spammer on the platform that I’m paying hundreds of bucks per year to keep running and have spent hundreds of hours of tedious labor to keep free of spam.
Shame.