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.

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

Want to contribute?

Submit a PR to github.com/petdance/perl101