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3 perlcommunity - a brief overview of the Perl community
7 This document aims to provide an overview of the vast perl community, which is
12 The Perl community is as diverse as Perl, and there is a large amount of
13 evidence that the Perl users apply TMTOWTDI to all endeavors, not just
19 There is a central directory for the Perl community: L<https://perl.org>
20 maintained by the Perl Foundation (L<https://www.perlfoundation.org/>),
25 Perl's sister language, Raku (formerly known as Perl 6), maintains its own
30 Perl runs on e-mail; there is no doubt about it. The Camel book was originally
31 written mostly over e-mail and today Perl's development is co-ordinated through
32 mailing lists. The largest repository of Perl mailing lists is located at
33 L<https://lists.perl.org>.
35 Most Perl-related projects set up mailing lists for both users and
37 L<https://lists.perl.org>, check the particular website for that project.
38 Most mailing lists are archived at L<https://www.nntp.perl.org/>.
42 The Perl community has a rather large IRC presence. For starters, it has its
43 own IRC network, L<irc://irc.perl.org>. General (not help-oriented) chat can be
44 found at L<irc://irc.perl.org/#perl>. Many other more specific chats are also
45 hosted on the network. Information about irc.perl.org is located on the
46 network's website: L<https://www.irc.perl.org>. For a more help-oriented #perl,
47 check out L<irc://irc.libera.chat/#perl>
48 (L<webchat|https://web.libera.chat/#perl>). Most Perl-related channels
51 Any large IRC network (Dalnet, EFnet) is also likely to have a #perl channel,
56 Perl websites come in a variety of forms, but they fit into two large
57 categories: forums and news websites. There are many Perl-related
64 =item L<https://perl.com/>
67 this site provides quality articles mostly about technical details of Perl.
69 =item L<https://blogs.perl.org/>
71 Many members of the community have a Perl-related blog on this site. If
74 =item L<https://perl.theplanetarium.org/>
76 Planet Perl is one of several aggregators of Perl-related blog feeds.
80 Perl Weekly is a weekly mailing list that keeps you up to date on conferences,
91 PerlMonks is one of the largest Perl forums, and describes itself as "A place
92 for individuals to polish, improve, and showcase their Perl skills." and "A
98 focussed solely on Perl, but it does have an active group of users who do
99 their best to help people with their Perl programming questions.
105 Many cities around the world have local Perl Mongers chapters. A Perl Mongers
111 To find your local Perl Mongers (or PM as they're commonly abbreviated) group
112 check the international Perl Mongers directory at L<https://www.pm.org/>.
116 Perl workshops are, as the name might suggest, workshops where Perl is taught
118 introduction (such as the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop's "Zero To Perl") to much
123 L<calendar|"Calendar of Perl Events"> mentioned below, and the YAPC Europe
125 European Perl events.
129 Hackathons are a very different kind of gathering where Perl hackers gather to
133 L<irc://irc.perl.org/#perl>.
143 Perl had two major annual conventions: The Perl Conference (now part of OSCON),
144 put on by O'Reilly, and Yet Another Perl Conference or YAPC (pronounced
146 Europe, Asia) in a stunning grassroots display by the Perl community.
148 In 2016, YAPC was rebranded as The Perl Conference again. It is now referred
149 to as The Perl and Raku Conference.
158 =item * The Perl Conference
168 An additional conference franchise with a large Perl portion was the
173 =head2 Calendar of Perl Events
175 The Perl Review, L<http://www.theperlreview.com> maintains a website
177 workshops, hackathons, Perl Mongers meetings, and other events. A view
178 of this calendar is available at L<https://www.perl.org/events.html>.
180 Not every event or Perl Mongers group is on that calendar, so don't lose