Re: 2024 Golden Perl Award voting ends 27th of June at 4pm PDT

[hippo]

I have no doubt that this is all sincere and well-intentioned but it raises 2 pretty important questions.

Perl Community (parent org of the Science Perl Committee

What on earth is this? Are you saying that someone within the Perl community has decided to create an organisation called Perl Community, knowing full well that this phrase (but in sentence case) has been universally used to mean something else for the last 35 years? What is this organisation, who runs it, where's their website^*? I'd try searching but guess what - all I'll find are references to the Perl community instead.

link to Google voting form

What's the story here? The Perl Community (big C intended) can't even construct or host a simple form and handler so they abdicate responsibility to the anti-privacy behemoth that is Google? To fill in this form I'd need a Google account and sign in with it. That's a poor choice and it reflects badly on the [Cc]ommunity.

I can only presume that this entire thing was decided on at the last minute and some poor volunteer was sent scrambling around for a quick form service.

^* I see by peering behind the login panel that the google form includes the domain of the Perl Community organisation and from there we can divine their website. It looks to be Will_the_Chill's project, according to the copyright notice. But there's no mention of "Perl Community" being any legal entity.

While I support the general thrust of what they/you are trying to achieve, the details and the optics are not great. If you have input, please consider at least dropping the Google forms requirement for any future polls. I think we all know a perfectly good community website which has been running polls for almost a quarter century. That's a far better choice IMHO.

[cavac]

Are you saying that someone within the Perl community has decided to create an organisation called Perl Community, knowing full well that this phrase (but in sentence case) has been universally used to mean something else for the last 35 years?

To quote one of my favourite movies: "Grab what you can, give nothing back". This is probably the future that awaits us:

Perl(¹) Community(²)

(¹) Registered Trademark

(²) "Community" is a patent-pending technology by XYZ Corp, Silicon Valley

[perlfan]

Here is the very first talk of the first day of the first Science Track - Structure Based Structuring of Unstructured Data - Adam Russell - TPRC 2024 The Perl and Raku Conference - Las Vegas, NV 2024

When they get all up, I'll post all the Science specific talks. Cheers!