Perl Advocacy

[Mark Knoop]

> On 27/02/2008, Greg McCarroll <greg at mccarroll.org.uk> wrote:
>>   "We use it but I can't really say that we do."
>>
>>  We can add them and not include them publically in v0.1, then we can 
>> hope
>>  that once they can show the site to the people who can say 'yes' - 
>> hopefully
>>  it will rather neatly, sort of, fullfill its purpose by initially 
>> helping
>>  itself by being a sales tool (i.e. company A is more likely to want to 
>> be
>>  on a list of companies it regards highly).
>>
>>  After that, just publically listing them - I really don't know. However 
>> as
>>  I've included the industry we could definetly include them in stats such
>>  as industry breakdown (Thanks Ovid and Gellyfish for this idea).
>
> There is the page listing known (either direct, 2nd hand or 3rd hand)
> companies/sites using perl on the perl5 wiki.
>
> http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?companies_using_perl
>
> A.
>
>
Not many on there but http://jobs.perl.org/country/United%20Kingdom is a bit 
more encouraging...

Mark