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Postings from February 2007
--- Renée Bäcker <renee.baecker@smart-websolutions.de> wrote: > These articles have to be published in popular magazines like the > linux-magazine. Careful with that! One of the problems we've faced when discussing this before is that we can't just randomly figure out where to place the articles. If we're going to spend a chunk of the money the Perl community has given us, we need very clear goals on what we hope to achieve and target the money accordingly. That means that linux-magazine might be a great choice or it might not. It's tough to know without a clear goal and some knowledge of the demographics of their readers. There are some folks who think we need to target the technology choosers (who are quite often the people who shouldn't be choosing technology) and letting the PHBs know that Perl is still an awesome language. I know this is a bone of contention with some folks, but just discussing what we're going to do without a clear understanding of why we're going to do it and what goals we have (even if vague!) wouldn't be right. What's worse, it could lead to our irresponsibly spending people's contributions and *that* would be awful. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book -- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/