For the record and for future reuse this is what I submitted to CeBIT. Gabor -----
I am submitting this application on behalf of The Perl Foundation ( http://www.perlfoundation.org/ ) and a number of projects written in Perl. Our objective is to show open source solutions to the business world developed using the Perl programming language. Perl is a widely used multi-purpose programming language. It is used by System Administrators, CM Engineers, Web application developers, Scientist, Test Automation engineers and many other people. Some of the projects we plan to represent include the WebGui Content Management System ( http://www.webgui.org/ ) , BricolageCMS ( http://www.bricolagecms.org/ ), Padre, the Perl IDE ( http://padre.perlide.org/ ), OTRS, the Ticket Request System ( http://www.otrs.org/ ), Bugzilla bug tracking system ( http://www.bugzilla.org/ ) and the Catalyst web development framework ( http://www.catalystframework.org/ ). People participating on CeBit and manning the booth will come from the development communities of these projects. The Perl Foundation (TPF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language. TPF carries the legal responsibility for Perl 5, Perl 6 and the Parrot virtual machine. It maintains the technical infrastructure of the International Perl community It coordinates the efforts of numerous grass-roots Perl-based groups such as the Perl user groups in more than 200 cities in the world, a number of local Perl Workshops and international conferences. WebGui and and BricolageCMS are the two leading Content Management Systems written in Perl. These solutions are used in business, government, non-profit and educational institutes to maintain their web presence. There are many examples of organizations using them, instead of listing them here let me point you to the listings maintained for WebGui http://www.webgui.org/sightings and Bricolage http://www.bricolagecms.org/about/sites/ respectively. Padre, the Perl IDE is a new open source Integrated Development Environment for Perl. It allows developers to increase their speed of development and the quality of the code they are writing. It also provide a framework upon which one can build further applications. Bugzilla is the leading issue and bug tracking system. It allows both software developers and system administrators to increase the quality of their products and service. Bugzilla is used by some of the major Linux distributions and by many large open source projects and a lot of companies ( http://www.bugzilla.org/installation-list/ ) OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System that is designed mainly to allow support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries The Catalyst web framework is a modern MVC framework for rapid web site development.
