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Community

The Perl Foundation

The Perl Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code. The Perl Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in Holland, Michigan.

• http://perlfoundation.org
• http://news.perlfoundation.org

Perl Mongers

The Perl user groups around the world. Helped out The Perl Foundation.

• http://www.pm.org

OSCON

• O'Reilly's Open Source Conference
• Started out as The Perl Conference and expanded
• http://conferences.oreilly.com

YAPC

• Yet Another Perl Conference
• Inexpensive, TPF-driven alternative to OSCON
• http://www.yapc.org

IRC channels

• Online chat channels
• Freenode (irc.freenode.net) is least obnoxious
• MAGnet (irc.perl.org) has most hardcore Perl folks, but most obnoxious

Mailing lists

• Dozens of mailing lists at http://lists.perl.org

Perlmonks

• http://perlmonks.org
• Half message board, half Q&A session
• Most likely to be helpful to newbies

blogs.perl.org

• L:<http://blogs.perl.org>
• Perl users blogging about perl

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