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- 1Perl community veterans reminisce about YAPC conference days●@ gwadej I did not go to the YAPC::NA that was in Houston. ISTR my last YAPC was in 2002, maybe? # Perl will always be s
Software freedom activist and copyleft.org contributor Bradley Kuhn recalled on Mastodon that his last YAPC::NA conference attendance was around 2002, skipping the edition held in Houston. Reflecting on two decades of the Perl community, he said Perl will always be special to him as a FOSS activist, noting the 1992–2002 Perl community had serious toxicity problems but taught him valuable lessons.
- 2Bradley Kuhn weighs in on Perl community discussion●@ traecer That's fascinating to learn because I have a latent set of skills (due to my Master's thesis work) that (shoul
Software freedom advocate Bradley Kuhn, of copyleft.org, joined a conversation about Perl development, noting that skills from his Master's thesis work could let him contribute usefully to a hobby project with minimal getting-started effort. He asked whether this work is happening within the existing Perl 5 ecosystem. The exchange highlights ongoing chatter about how newcomers with latent expertise can plug into Perl's codebase.