On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Hasanuddin Tamir wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
>
> > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Hasanuddin Tamir wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> > >
> > > > see my other post: this can work out if the company gets some added value
> > > > from the Perl community. Approach the company and help their Perl people
> > > > to be more productive by using CPAN and such, and voila the company has an
> > > > interest in giving back. Of course that's my rewishful thinking.
> > >
> > > Well, I'd like to hear more about this.
> >
> > About what? Success stories or my idea?
>
> Your idea. I'd like to know how that will be done.
remember this isn't not a concrete plan, just an idea. So I'm not sure
if anything will be done. I thought that this is the list where we can
discuss ideas like that and see if can come up with some real plan, and
may be even do something about it.
> We have internal tool for web application development. There's some
> effort to redesign it and formulate the way we release it to the open
> source community. But I don't decide things, I only recommend them.
that's something completely different. You are talking about convincing
your company to release the code to the open source community. (I
suggest that you start a new thread, or otherwise it'll be lost in the
flood of the current thread :)
I'm talking about educating companies about CPAN and such, for their
internal product which they probably would never release.
Basically all is needed is to make these companies aware of the forums
where their Perl programmers can ask questions, and thus improve their
productivity. e.g. Q: "I'm writing a wrapper around cvs, may be you know
somebody who wrote such a wrapper already", A: "Sure, here is the link on
cpan.org, in the future you can use search.cpan.org to find the available
modules by yourself."
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