>You wouldn't beleive but I receive a great deal of mod_perl job offers.
>Here is a partial quote of the most generic content of the offer:
mod_perl is definitely going up, and not too slow either.
>Which makes me thinking that we are too few and the demand is growing
>(which is good for us :), but from the other side it's bad for mod_perl,
>as when a project staff understands the power of mod_perl and want to use
>it but have no experience with mod_perl and can hire none of mod_perl
>programmers, there is no other choice left as to use some other probably
>worse technology because they could dig up the required man power that has
>the required knowledge in the other field.
When I posted a job offer on this list I got a lot of answers (which I hope
will lead to something more concrete next week), contrary to my initial fears.
I think the problem touches computer people as a whole. It is getting hard
or impossible to find contractors that aren't booked for the next six
months in some areas of knowledge. Granted it must be easier to find a Java
programmer though.
But I agree with you that we should try to seduce more programmers to
mod_perl, it can only help. There are a lot of Perl programmers out there
that could learn how to use it (at least basically) rather quickly, so I
guess that advertising it better before the Perl community would be the
first step to take.
I think that having a better organized site would help. Despite the (too)
long silence, Matt and I have been working on a draft for the new site's
organisation. We're moving slowly because we both have a lot to do besides
that, but I'm confident that a new site will be there (at least in
alpha/beta for review) at some point in January. I just need to reword a
few bits of the outline and I'll post it to the list for discussion
(hopefully tomorrow). When we have the site we can write MAKE MONEY QUICK
!!! MOD_PERL PROGRAMMERS NEEDED ACCROSS THE GALAXY in big letters accross
the screen ;) Or maybe something more subtle... We could even do that now.
Another thing that could help would be an article on perl.com. That would
reach the Perl community. I'm sure that we can mail whoever's in charge of
it and offer to write an article, and I see no reason why it'd be turned
down. Now the hard part is the article itself... Volunteers ?
.Robin
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