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On 2/28/07, Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com> wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:51 AM, Richard Foley wrote: > > >> I think Perl needs some "PR" to make companies aware of Perls > >> cabilities > >> and future development... > >> > > Yes, Yes, Yes. > > It sure does, and that's my job in TPF, and I'm sorely lacking in the > tuits. Who would like to help out? Is this really a task that a bunch of hackers are cut out to do? Personally I doubt it. I know you do the best you can, but it seems to me that the volunteer programmer thing doesn't mix too well with commerical type activities like marketing and PR. I mean how many people would expect a skilled marketer to be able to cut decent code? Yet we expect a skilled programmer to be able to decent marketing and PR? This seems like something that should be handled by the donations to TPF (or some similar organization) by hiring a professional to do it right. Isnt this exactly why we have a donation fund? So that we can pay to get the stuff that we arent good at done properly by a professional? I mean look at most other large successful volunteer organizations, they hire people to do their fundraising and things that are outside of their core competency. You dont see doctors from the Heart Foundation doing their marketing, they hire professionals to do it right. Please dont take this as a disrespect to you, I know you do your damndest for Perl and the community. But I'm assuming that since you are a good programmer you probably never studied advertising, marketing, press relations or fund raising. And what we need is somebody who did. If i knew that there was a fund earmarked for professional perl advocacy I'd donate, tax-deductable or not. cheers, Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next