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

[Jesse Vincent]

>
A first round of comments:

> 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

This sounds like "websites"  Is that all you have in mind or is there  
"more"?

>  - 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

Is it worth specifying reference documentation, books and training  
courses in that list?

>
>  - 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
>
This is the one item in this list that doesn't seem to have a direct  
and easy "throw money/volunteers at it" - is there a cunning plan?

>  - Making installation of common "new wave of CPAN" libraries and  
> applications developed using them easier in order to simplify  
> experimentation and deployment

This feels like it may want to be generalized to "simplifying and  
streamlining installation and deployment of programs and libraries  
written in Perl to encourage innovation and deployment" or something

>  - Bounties on specific pieces of code that scratch no developer's  
> itch but make corporate and/or hobbyist adoption of enlightened perl  
> easier

+1, though be careful about phrasing it as "bounties" as that may have  
tax/nonprofit implications. That's a question for your lawyer and  
accountant, though.

>  - Production of articles and white papers to provide a CxO level  
> view of the advantages of modern perl as a platform for new  
> development

This is one place where you may be able to cajole placement help from  
TPF once you have the content and the EPO branding on it.

>
>  - Getting corporates already using modern perl to speak out about  
> their success stories and helping them to get involved with the  
> community

s/corporates/organizations/?


> 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

That's the first I've heard about SIGs/WGs. Is the intent that such  
things will exist and be open to members only?


> 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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