Re: PerlMonks Boosters' Club

[merlyn]

I'm a big champion of not creating structures needlessly. I also have experience at that, having created The Perl Institute a bit ahead of its time, and for perhaps the wrong reasons.

So, given my experience with TPI, can we please first agree what problems exist that this new structure will solve? I don't see anything of your list not already happening.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[nysus]

I think "structure" is much too strong of a word for what I'm trying to get across. When I think of a "Boosters' Club", I think of a merry band of professionals, all volunteer, who pledge to root for the home team/community.

It looks like the irony in my post didn't work. :-) It was supposed to be a humuorous attempt to inspire a partriotic call to action. I guess I should have run it through an editor first. Anyway, I'm only half serious when I talk about a "President" and "Representatives". I didn't mean to conjure up ideas of "institution" and "bureaucracy". When I think of a Boosters' Club, I think of Fred Flinstone and Barney Rubble going to the Buffalo meeting every Wednesday (from what I've seen of your code examples, I know you can relate to this :-)). They have elections, a president, etc. but the main purpose of the club is just comradery and fun and help kick off the community anti-litterbug campaign.

You asked if we could agree on what problems exist. Well, I can only talk about the the "problem" from my own perspective. The problem is that I have an urge to help PM grow and prosper. I feel this compelling obligation because I probably would have grown bored and stopped studying Perl a long time ago without some kind of connection to others in the programming world. PerlMonks has given me that connection and I greatly appreciate it. I'm just guessing that many others feel the same way and might want to have some fun showing their appreciation and find a way to pay PM back, that's all.

$PM = "Perl Monk's";
$MCF = "Most Clueless Friar Abbot Bishop";
$nysus = $PM . $MCF;
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