Slides for the talk given at the RioJS meetup on Developer Communities' Ecosystem, in 2014.

1. Communities
Perl Edition

2. Hello!

3. @that_garu

4. Just another Perl hacker

5. Perl?

9. Perl.

10. print''.join('%(pre)s%(num)s %(bot)s on the wall, %(nul)s %(bot)s,n%(tak)sn'%(lambda c,b:{'pre'
:['','%s %s on the wall.nn'%(c,b)][abs(cmp(c,'Ninety-nine'))],'num':c,'nul':c.
lower(),'bot':b,'tak':['Go to the store and buy some more... Ninety-nine %s.'%b,'Take one down, pass it around,']
[abs(cmp(x,0))] })((lambda x,o:[(['Twenty','Thirty','Forty','Fifty','Sixty','Seventy','Eighty','Ninety'
][x/(2*3+4)-2]+'-'+o.lower()).replace('-no more',''),o][int(x<20)])(x,['No more','One','Two','Three','Four','Five',
'Six','Seven','Eight','Nine','Ten','Eleven','Twelve','Thirteen','Fourteen',‘Fifteen','Sixteen','Seventeen','Eighteen',
'Nineteen'][[x,x%10][int(x>=20)]]),'bottle%s of beer'%['','s'][abs(cmp(x,1))]) for x in xrange(99,-1,-1))

11. d=[30644250780,9003106878,30636278846,66641217692,4501790980,
67124603036,13161973916,66606629920,30642677916,30643069058];a,s=
[],$*[0];s.bytes{|b|a<<('%036b'%d[b.chr.to_i]).scan(
/d{6}/)};a.transpose.each{|a|a.join.bytes{|i|
print((49==i)?($*[1]||"#"):32.chr)};puts}

12. use CGI':all';path_info=~/w+/;$_=`grep -l $& *`.h1($&).escapeHTML$t=param(t)
||`dd<$&`;open F,">$&";print F$t;s/httS+|([A-Z]w+){2,}/a{href,$&},$&/eg;
print header,pre"$_<form>",submit,textarea t,$t,9,70

13. use Dancer;
use DateTime;
!
get '/friday13' => sub {
is_friday_the_13th( DateTime->now );
};
!
get '/friday13/:year/:month/:day' => sub {
my $date = DateTime->new(
year => param('year' ),
month => param('month'),
day => param('day' ),
);
!
is_friday_the_13th( $date );
};
!
sub is_friday_the_13th {
my $date = shift;
!
if ($date->day_name eq 'Friday') {
return ‘YES!';
}
else {
return 'NO :(';
}
}
!
start;

24. Perl ♡ JS

25. use strict

26. "use strict"

28. Perl.

29. Perl Community.

30. CPAN
metacpan.org

32. CPAN Testers
cpantesters.org

33. Perl Mongers
pm.org

34. YAPC
Yet Another Perl Conference

35. irc.perl.org
1249 users, 462 channels

36. Happiest users?

37. http://www.crowdflower.com/blog/2009/05/the-programming-language-with-the-happiest-users

38. Songs
(srsly)

41. Poetry
(even more srsly)

42. my $eyes = "closed";
my $heart = "aching";
my $beloved = "gone";
!
!
no warnings;
!
my $love = ();
!
!
open MY,"mind";
foreach ($love) {
open MY,$eyes;
tell my $mind or open my $eyes;
}
!
do not $fear and do not die;
!
$i; die "because i love youn";
!
do { $i; sleep($_) } while ( $awake );
!
warn "$me" if ($i == $wrong);
!
bind my $love, $dear and do not exit;
for (my $world = "dark") {};
for (my $eyes = "blind") {};

43. donations & grants

44. Send-a-Newbie

45. Google SoC / Code-in

46. GNOME Outreach
Program for Women

47. The Perl Foundation

48. Enlightened Perl
Organisation

49. Japan Perl
Association

50. growing a community

51. Website

52. mailing list

53. tech events++

54. social events++
social events++
social events++

55. social + tech == ♡

56. Make it easy to
contribute

57. super
Make it easy to
contribute

58. GAMIFY ALL THE THINGS!

59. answer fast

60. if it’s someone’s first
time, answer faster

62. growing a community

63. Growing a healthy
community

64. Code of Conduct

65. Reasonable Person Principle
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~weigand/staff/

66. Reasonable Person Principle
• Everyone will be reasonable.
• Everyone expects everyone else to be
reasonable.
• No one is special.
• Do not be offended if someone suggests you are
not being reasonable.

67. “be awesome to each other"
BerlinJS’ Code of Conduct

68. Citizen Code of Conduct
citizencodeofconduct.org

69. Make it fun!
(for everyone)

70. Open your mind for
new people

71. Open your mind for
new languages

72. Open your mind for
new problems

73. Open your mind for
new solutions

74. Living Long and
Prosper

75. be open to criticism
but learn to separate signal from noise

76. Positive attitude
all languages suck :)

77. perlbug -> perlthanks

78. cpanthanks

79. go outside and play
with the other kids

80. Teach.

81. Learn.

82. Listen.

83. Share.

84. it’s NOT a competition:
there’s room for everybody.

85. Celebrate FLOSS

86. “Be the change you want
to see in the world.”
Mahatma Ghandi

87. “Behave like you are a
member of the community
that you want to belong to."
John “genehack" Anderson

88. Open questions

89. Centralized
x
Distributed

90. Enterprise
x
Fun/Creative Hack

91. the paradox of choice