TPF press release page, last updated 2002

2008-12-22 Thread Aaron Trevena
http://www.perlfoundation.org/press_release_archive wtf ? -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting

Re: student outreach

2008-12-12 Thread Aaron Trevena
2008/12/5 brian d foy brian.d@gmail.com: In article edcafa7d0812050227i36b9b4cev1c6fe4e130daa...@mail.gmail.com, Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com wrote: If we can organise a mailing list, and maybe a web page or wiki we can provide some resources aimed at students based on what

Re: so that's how you get a story on perlbuzz...

2008-10-07 Thread Aaron Trevena
2008/10/7 Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sure, that's one way. You could also just talk to me and say Hey, I'd like to run something, and we can talk about it. Was there something you wanted to run that for some reason you didn't think you could get published? I did, it took cajoling, and

Re: so that's how you get a story on perlbuzz...

2008-10-07 Thread Aaron Trevena
2008/10/7 Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I did, it took cajoling, and like I said you said let me know when you have an actual story, I spent the time to put something together and eventually you ran it, we got a huge spike in wiki contribution for about a month. Great! I'm glad it worked

perl usage page on wiki

2008-05-22 Thread Aaron Trevena
hi all, I've added a stub page giving perl usage metrics on the wiki at : http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?usage_statistics it would be really cool, if anybody could add more links, etc. A -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting

ohloh - are your projects and source code being counted ?

2008-04-16 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi All, Just a quickie to say, it doesn't take long to add your project and contributions to perl projects on ohloh. Heck, I just added Autodia to googlecode (free svn ftw), and then to ohloh in 10 minutes. If you have any significant projects - make them count, give kudos to the perl (and

Re: The perl5 wiki

2007-09-21 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 21/07/2007, Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case you weren't aware the perl foundation now has a wiki for perl 5, it's been growing pretty fast, and is already shaping up nicely. I just remembered to have another look at the perl5 wiki, and it's still not that easy to find.. http

The perl5 wiki

2007-07-21 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi, In case you weren't aware the perl foundation now has a wiki for perl 5, it's been growing pretty fast, and is already shaping up nicely. A couple of very quick/easy things you can do for perl advocacy is to a) add more links to useful resources and b) add more perl organisations and case

Topping up the perl skills pool

2007-02-14 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi all, This is a recurring subject that some of us on london.pm and use.perl have been covering - Perl employers in the UK and especially London seem to have followed the trend of not investing in the skills they need, leading to a glut of 'senior perl' roles and them complain about it being