Re: Sony support uses Perl

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Denny <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 08:33 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:
>> There is an old and out of date list on TPF wiki
>>
>> https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?companies_using_perl
>>
>> but I don't think there is a real added value in such list. As Jan point=
ed out
>> almost every company uses Perl in one form or another.
>
> I think there would be value in compiling a list of companies that are
> 'proud to use perl' (to borrow a website name). =A0These companies are
> actually willing to put their name next to Perl, rather than tucking it
> away in their back-end support utilities, and that's worth far more to
> us than a list of companies who don't even acknowledge the existence of
> Perl (other than accidentally, in a URL for instance).
>
> The London.pm list is here:
> http://london.pm.org/advocacy/
>
> A global version might be a good resource for this list to work on. =A0I'=
d
> be happy to host one on the Perl Is Alive server, but obviously it would
> have more credibility if it were hosted on perl.org (or .com?)

I agree but I'd like to turn the whole thing around.
Instead of us asking permission from the companies to list them I'd
like to reach the point where they will pay in order to appear on the
list.
I believe we can do that by creating a sponsorship system or member
system for The Perl Foundation and list the sponsor/memeber companies
on the web site of TPF.

That's where my grant was heading
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/06/hague-grant-application-perl-e.html
but based on the feedback on that site and based on my discussion with
Karen there are quite a few people who either don't want TPF to do
that or think that I am not the right person to do this or have other
doubts about the project.

Gabor