[Dbix-class] Gentlemen, a call to arms!

[Rolf Schaufelberger]

Hi, 

Am Mittwoch 11 Oktober 2006 21:34 schrieb Matt S Trout:
> http://www.plat-forms.org/faq.htm
>
> They're having a platform war. We're forever left out of the ruby vs.
> python games, the "enterprise" people ignore us (though really, I'm not
> sure I mind that :) but ...
>
> "We have been considering Perl as one of the platforms to be admitted to
> the contest. So far, we have decided against it because we believe that too
> few professionals use it professionally for us to hope to get enough
> requests for admittance for the Perl platform.
>
> If you are a team that would like to participate and would like to use
> Perl, please contact prechelt at inf.fu-berlin.de (Lutz Prechelt)."
>
> This is a bit of a shotgun e-mail. Several list admins are probably going
> to attempt to track me down and shoot me in the head. I don't care.
>
> Our community has repeatedly failed to market it's way out of a paper bag,
> I've even helped contribute to this with my eminently forgettable London
> Web Frameworks Night talk. But this is about producing working code. *That*
> we know we can do.
>
> Stand up and be counted. It's gotta be good for a laugh if nothing else.
>
> *dons asbestos suit, hides under desk*

we (the organization commitee for the German Perl Workshop) are watching this 
event too and after our investigation perl was added to the list of invited 
platforms.  one if us  (Alvar Freude) has setup a mailing list for interested 
people an teams:

subscribe via Web :

  https://lists.odem.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-platform

subscribe via Mail :

  perl-platform-subscribe at lists.odem.org


-- 
regards
Rolf Schaufelberger
rs at plusw.de