Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 17:19 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> IMHO there is very little communication between the distro communities and
> the Perl community. Some Debian people have started a dialog on the last
> YAPC in Vienna and I wish we can increase that even further.
> The QA Workshop in Oslo would be a great opportunity for that but if none of
> you can come then the next YAPC::EU in Coppenhagen can be also good for
> more personal contact.
<sigh/> That's fundamental problem "community-driven/maintained"
distros like Fedora and Debian: Volunteers don't have travel budgets
;)
If there are meetings like this where it is beneficial to Perl if people
meet up to face to face, then it's possible that The Perl Foundation[1]
would be interested in sponsoring at least part of the travel and
accommodation costs. If you're interested, then it's certainly worth
speaking to them about it.
Dave...
[1]
http://foundation.perl.org/