[epo-core] new aims/membershgip section for site, proposed

[Matt S Trout]

Ok, since the "hwta do we want to do with this org" thread died, I've
decided to write up a draft for an aims/etc. text to replace the articles
of incorporation on the front page.

Since we did so well at actually producing something last time, I am going
to say this now: Any feedback on a point should, for preference, be
accompanied by a rewrite of that point to incorporate that feedback. If you
just say "well, it's a bit blah because of X", or worse still, not respond
and then moan at me at a conference that your views haven't been taken into
account (You Know Who You Are), I'm gonna ignore you now and laugh at you
later.

Draft text begins here:

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Aims of the Englightened Perl Organisation:

To encourage the usage of the Perl programming language as a modern, high-level development platform by working to fund and/or organize:

  - Improvements to the public facing parts of existing perl projects, including design and content organisation and accessibility, by co-operation with the projects involved to see where their volunteer capacity is lacking
  - Eliciting the creation and/or improvement of tutorials, screencasts, and other accessible documentation to make it easier for new users to get started with modern perl
  - Encouraging people to blog their experiences of perl development both as individuals and as part of corporations in order to raise the profile of perl across the blogosphere and social media aggregators
  - Making installation of common "new wave of CPAN" libraries and applications developed using them easier in order to simplify experimentation and deployment
  - Bounties on specific pieces of code that scratch no developer's itch but make corporate and/or hobbyist adoption of enlightened perl easier
  - Production of articles and white papers to provide a CxO level view of the advantages of modern perl as a platform for new development
  - Getting corporates already using modern perl to speak out about their success stories and helping them to get involved with the community

Why you should join the Enlightened Perl Organisation:

  - As a company, organisation membership gives a clear statement that you believe in and support the usage of modern perl for new development, making it easier to hire smart perl hackers and get help via community channels
  - As an individual, organisation membership shows your commitment to having modern perl skills that are usable on large, modern projects, and an understanding that maintainability and return on investment beat cool hacks for commercial work any time
  - As either, membership will allow you to get easy access to the working groups / special interest groups within the enlightened perl organisation and to have a say in the direction of both the organisation itself and of our strategies for putting the time and funds available to us to best use

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