On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Christian Walde <[email protected]> wrote:
> No worries, i'm used to being volunteered for things: http://cat.eatsmou.se That's a nice cat an a very interesting way to use http://uservoice.com I wonder if this could be expanded to CPAN in general? So on one hand people could suggest things that need to be done and vote for those things on the other hand random volunteers could pick up the ideas and do them. These could be fixing specific bugs in a CPAN module or adding a feature to a CPAN module or even writing a new CPAN module. > I want to write a bigger email, but it's hard to find time. > > My plan is not a weekly summary. My plan is to write marketing for people > outside of Perl. This means that i'd write up the most interesting things > that happened whenever a new perl release announcement is made and then > spread that as far over the internet as i can. This would happen with the > release announcement schedule for two reasons: > > 1. I don't think *that* many interesting things happen in p5p each week. > 2. I'd burn the fuck out really fast, if i tried to do it weekly. > > In addition to the regular releases i could do some special interest > bulletins on certain big topics, like the given/when debate. > > But, since it's targeted outside, it is really orthogonal to something like > perlweekly. Perlweekly seems to be targeted at insiders who want to know > what's going on. Perl Core News is meant as a marketing drum to show that > things are happening deep inside. This would mean however that Perl Core > News would be a good mention in perlweekly. :) > That made me think what I really want to do with the Perl Weekly :) So I think there are the people in the Perl community who are very involved in reading the blogs and/or writing code (p5p, CPAN, open source perl outside of CPAN), Perl Mongers. Perl Monks. Even they cannot follow all aspects of Perl. Then there are people who use Perl but are not (yet) involved in any part of the Perl Community. Then there are people who are not using Perl at all. The Perl Weekly mostly tries to reach the first two groups. Not the third one. For that what IMHO might be interesting from p5p is 1) discussions about major new features in perl (e.g. smart match, defined or, say) 2) discussions about changes in documentation (shall all the docs use to 3 param open() ?) 3) other jucie topics 1-2 would help widen the discussion about these features before they get implemented and released. These could be also the items you would want to promote outside the Perl circles once they are released. So maybe there won't be any newsworthy item on every week but it would be nice if either of you kept an eye on those and blogged about them. regards Gabor _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
