Perl Community Roundtable -- Meeting Notes for March 2025
Thu, 03-Apr-2025 by
D Ruth Holloway
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## Toronto Perl Mongers -- Olaf Alders
The Toronto Perl Mongers will be hosting a talk online by Dave Cross, and is planning for similar high-profile talks in the future. The previous such event in December with Randal Schwartz was considered a huge success, and raised a good bit of money for TPRF and raised the profile on the Toronto Perl Mongers.
## Mongueurs de Perl -- Emmanuel Seyman
Emmanuel is currently the president of the Mongueurs de Perl, which promotes Perl in French-speaking countries, particularly in France. The nonprofit organization has been briskly busy in the last year or so, including helping with organizing this year's Perl Toolchain Summit in Leipzig, Germany. They do a lot, and with very few people. The Mongueurs could use more folks helping them in their mission, particularly in the Francophone world outside France.
## Perl Ads platform -- Olaf Alders
Dave Cross has created a simple advertising platform that MetaCPAN and others are using to publish advertisements. It is easily modified with a pull request on the JSON file of ads in [Dave's repository](https://github.com/PerlToolsTeam/perl-ads).
## Perl Toolchain Summit -- Philippe Bruhat
Philippe is an organizer in this year's summit, and stressed the importance of including new people who are interested in projects at every level. He pointed out that he has made a point of inviting at least a few new attendees at each summit going forward, when interest in a toolchain project has been expressed. Getting folks interested in our projects--via this meeting and other venues--is a good way to grow our project teams and allow long-time members to rotate off of those projects when they desire.
## Dancer2 -- Ruth Holloway
The Dancer2 project has recently completed a grant to revise the documentation for Dancer2, and the team is finishing up final edits there. Fresh activity on Dancer2 in the last year or so attracted the attention of the original author, Alexis Sukrieh, who has released a new "LiteBlog" plugin for Dancer2.
## TPRF Board -- Ruth Holloway and Bruce Gray
Bruce has recently taken over the role of Secretary of the Foundation, after the departure of Makoto Nozaki, who had served in that role for several years.
## Contributions to the Community
While companies that make financial contributions, either via the conferences, the Mongueurs de Perl, or the TPRF, are absolutely appreciated, all of our organizations and major projects definitely need to make that appreciation much louder, which encourages further donations both by that company, and others.
Additionally, we discussed ways that companies could contribute to the success of projects in the Perl and Raku ecosystems by donating time for their employees, particularly to work on modules and projects that are of use to them. In some countries (including the USA), this can be considered "research and development" time, which may be leverageable in a company tax statement. Alternatively, it can be presented as an in-kind contribution to the non-profit organization in our ecosystem, and become tax-deductible in that way. Either way, companies should definitely contact the non-profits they wish to support in this way, to receive proper credit and documentation, as well as the non-profit's public gratitude for their contribution.
## Meta-discussion on the Community Roundtable
It has been the case for many years that groups of people are working on projects (and for companies) using Perl without knowledge of any other "islands" of Perl activity; the example of Koha was given--Ruth did not even know about the larger community until she'd been working on Koha for several years, and convinced her boss to send her to her first YAPC (Madison 2012), where many folks had not even heard of Koha! The focus of the Community Roundtable going forward is on connecting these islands of activity--this encourages participation by folks on similar projects, and a synergy of support and expertise that is available throughout the community. This Roundtable is one such way to connect the dots, globally, and will continue.
The next Perl Community Roundtable will be held on Friday, April 18, at 1730 UTC, via [Zoom](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82038746662?pwd=X1r8Tfbcq621t0LA3NbpLebmGMOhK3.1), and all interested people are welcome, and encouraged to attend.
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