I wonder if this kind of stuff is more likely to occur in technical communities that are becoming irrelevant but at one point had a lot of exposure.
The Perl Foundation faces more departures
11–14 of 14 posts
Re: The Perl Foundation faces more departures
#12Oh well. This one. Just some context: Samantha McVey was/is involved with the guy who kept pushing repositories with names like perl6-n_g_er (fully spelled out, of course) and commit messages like "Get a job, n_g_er". Just look at this juicy thread: https://twitter.com/kraih/status/1408525949218570240 There was also a Slack log which corroborated what Sebastian had written about, and I don't know why I spent time to…
> was/is involved
was.
Re: The Perl Foundation faces more departures
#13Whatever happens to Perl and Larry Wall they will always have a place in my heart. In many ways Larry was the ultimate hacker's hacker and I think programming culture was a little more colourful back in the 90s and early 2000s when Perl was popular. There's never been anything quite like Perl Monks.
Re: The Perl Foundation faces more departures
#14I did not follow the rise of the Perl Foundation, was it "we need to pay these people for the work they do for the community" or was it "We need a way to take this away from Larry Wall?"
It was originally for helping to organize Perl events. It acted as an entity that could enter into contracts for insurance and rental purposes.
It was extended to have grants among other things.
Larry Wall has historically only really been influential on the design of the language. So it was not taken away, he just has rarely done anything outside of that.