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Perl Institute dissolved

Posted by Hemos on from the bye-bye-american-fly dept.

david landgren writes " The Perl Institute has decided to call it a day. The main reason, according to Larry Wall, is that the Institute was "top-down", but Perl's culture is much more "bottom-up". The Institute's most valuable assets, the domains perl.org and cpan.org have been offered to the Perl Mongers. By the way, have you checked out whether there's a Perl Monger chapter in your part of the world? "

3 of 25 comments (clear)

  1. Poll: My coding style is: by root · · Score: 2

    [ ] Top-Down (Break up big taks into bite sized chunks)
    [ ] Bottom Up (You can't build until you have a good set of tools)
    [ ] Just dive in and code
    [ ] Wait for orders from management
    [ ] Cut, paste, tweak; cut, paste, tweak; bash, bash, hack; debug, debug, debug.

  2. ack! what about DNS for bio.perl.org and others? by chris.dag · · Score: 2


    The bioperl project depends on the perl.org
    DNS server for our box bio.perl.org.

    (we do have bioperl.org just in case)

    I sent an email to the boston-pm gurus but if
    anyone out there can assure me that DNS for the
    perl.org domains will be transitioned smoothly
    I would _greatly_ appreciate it.

    On the upside it is great to see the perl user groups (pm.org) taking off.

    -chris

  3. Bath.pm World Map by god · · Score: 3

    Oh, and a quick way to find out about Perl Monger Chapters in your neck of the woods is the fairly-up-to-date and quite-underpublicised Bath.pm Perl Monger World Map.