Perl Advocacy

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Greg McCarroll <greg at mccarroll.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 08:51:02AM +0000, Christopher Jones wrote:
>  >
>  > http://www.instituteforwomenshealth.ucl.ac.uk/trl
>  >
>  > You could use the Institute  logo and the UCL logo if you like
>  >
>
>  Thanks, we've already got 6 or 7 logo's and a volunteer to maintain the page,
>  after I get over the the carling cup result[1], we should have a page in the next few
>  days and a 'manifesto'[2] that lets the world know that Perl is a language that is alive
>  and well in London.
>
>  In other news I should have been ready for the diverse response, but once again I'm
>  surprised by just how may different companies/organisations use Perl.
>
>  Greg
>
>  [1] I'm a spurs fan.[3]
>  [2] We need to tell companies/organisations what they are getting into by saying publically
>     they use Perl. To be honest its litereally just saying they use Perl, in the future it
>     might be an avenue to help them recruit people.

It is also about supporting the ecology that they depend on.

>  [3] Did I mention we beat chelski? ;-)
>


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Zbigniew Lukasiak
http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/