[Fwd: www.perl.com: Beginners Intro to Perl - Part 6 - 01/15/2001]

[David L. Nicol]

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Hello, perl.com subscribers.

* Perl News

Quite a few interesting things have happened in the past two weeks.  

First, the venue and Call for Patricipation have been announced for
YAPC 2001, which will be held in Montreal this year.  See
http://www.yapc.org/America/ for complete details and breaking news.

Second, in case you hadn't seen it yet, Damian Conway has started 
the Conway Channel, a web site which will report on his year of 
working on Perl.  As you may recall, Damian received a grant from 
Yet Another Society to take a year off from teaching and do nothing 
but write Perl modules and travel around and give talks.  (If you 
contributed, thank you again, and note that YAS recently received 
501(3)(c) status, so your contribution may be tax-deductible.)  
The Conway Channel is available at: 

        http://yetanother.org/damian/

Finally, I got the following message from Jon Orwant, editor of the
Perl Journal:

        January 2, 2001
        
        Some folks have been asking me about the status of The Perl
        Journal #20, and prospective authors have been asking me
        about deadlines for future issues.  The answers: TPJ #20 is
        in press and ready to print, but EarthWeb (the owner of TPJ)
        has told the printer to stop the presses until further
        notice.  I am currently responding to proposals sent to me
        with approximately "I don't know if there's going to be
        another issue, but when I do I'll respond to your proposal."
        
        Since the future of the magazine is in doubt, I can't in
        good conscience greenlight proposals; I will not encourage
        an author to spend weeks writing an article when I know 
        that it might never be printed.  So I've told people who've 
        asked what I know about the current situation: while 
        EarthWeb has sold many of its properties to internet.com so 
        that it can focus on "career services", it has not sold TPJ.  
        However, EarthWeb has also made it clear that they don't 
        want to publish TPJ any more.
        
        This story has started to leak out to the Perl community and
        has already mutated a bit in not-quite-correct directions,
        so I wanted to write this note to set the record straight.
        Or as straight as I can, given what little I know about
        EarthWeb's decisions.  
        
        While TPJ's future is very much up in the air, people
        shouldn't take this as any indicator about Perl itself.  
        TPJ was doing just fine back when I ran it, there's no
        shortage of content out there, and the magazine could easily
        go bimonthly and then monthly -- indeed, when EarthWeb
        acquired TPJ I had thought that was the plan.  I still enjoy
        the editing, the authors enjoy the writing, and the 
        designers enjoy the designing.  What happens now is up to
        EarthWeb.  And no, I'm not suggesting that people bombard
        them with email.  Heck, they just laid off 100 people, so
        I'm not even sure who to bombard.  Eventually there will be
        some resolution, and when there is I'll write again to let
        everyone know.
        
        As of December 27th, this matter is now in the courts, and
        so I have to adopt the "just the facts" tone of this letter
        without portraying my opinions.  Someday I'll be able to
        talk more about what is happening in these strange days;
        until then, you'll have to conjure up your own adjectives on
        my behalf.
        
        Cheers,
        
        Jon Orwant


* What's New on the Site?

In the sixth (and last) part of his series on Perl for beginning
programmers, Doug Sheppard talks about how to get Perl to detect and
warn about errors.  See

http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/begperl6.html

Also, Simon has (as usual) contributed a report on recent p5p
activity:

http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/p5pdigest/THISWEEK-20010107.html

Thank you all. I will be in touch again next week.

Mark-Jason Dominus
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