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

[Mark Keating]

Okay unless anyone has any objections I will be changing the site 
tomorrow to state this (put together from all responses):

 - 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, 
books, reference documentation, training courses 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;

 - Simplyfing and streamlining the installation of common "new wave of 
CPAN" libraries, and applications developed using them, in order to 
simplify experimentation and deployment;

 - Grants for development of 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 senior 
management level view of the advantages of modern Perl as a platform for 
new development;

 - Getting organisations 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 in a competitive global market, it is imperative to find 
and secure quality development staff.  As a sponsoring organization, it 
is evident that there is a clear understanding of modern Perl and a 
pledge to support further development.  This promotes the idea of an 
enjoyable working environment, as well as higher success rates tapping 
into the community channels and the wealth of knowledge present there.

- As a company with a software development department, the ever growing 
challenge of finding and securing quality development staff is made more 
difficult by a competitive global market.  Corporate and Organizational 
sponsorship of EPO is an advertisement for highly talented developers to 
know they'll make a good decision working for a company that understands 
and wants to use modern Perl.  Furthermore, showing the community that 
you support the future development of the language and advocating 
enlightened development helps establish a foothold in a brilliant and 
helpful social community, which is centered around knowledge sharing.

 - 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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Mark Keating BA (Hons)              |  Writer, Photographer, Cat-Herder
Managing Director                   |  Shadowcat Systems Limited
Director/Secretary                  |  Enlightened Perl Organisation
http://www.shadowcat.co.uk          |  http://www.enlightenedperl.org
http://linkedin.com/in/markkeating  | 'Sufficiently Advanced Technology'