Updates to community page

[davorg]

The community page could use a little love. I hope to work on this over the next couple of weeks. This is just a dumping ground for me to list things I want to do:

• Add mention of TPF Slack channel (is there an easy way to join?)
• Update (or, probably remove) mention of YAPC Europe Foundation
• Add other missing communities (Facebook, Reddit, P5P, StackOverflow...)
• Is there anything on Discord?
• Mention useful accounts on Mastodon/Bluesky/Threads/Instagram/...

https://github.com/perlorg/perlweb/blob/main/docs/www/community.html

[sjn]

This is a really good initiative! Thanks for doing this.

Here's a few additions/comments:

• pm.org is quite a bit out of sync with reality, but since there are still active groups, and some merely dormant ones, I think it still has a role to play in these communities. I'd love to see @jhannah and anyone else who has tuits to help shine up these pages before FOSDEM 2025
• I think the Perl Toolchain Gang would fit in here. While this community is rather closed and tight-knit, it HAS had mostly regular events (the Perl Toolchain Summit, née QA Hackathon) since 2008. While it doesn't have a "page" beyond it's github group, some of the members have publicized ways to join it. I guess @book may have some opinions on this? :-)
• Additionally, the CPAN Security Group (an outcrop of the PTS) may be a worthwhile addition. It does have a homepage.
• I think that this list would also benefit from communities around CPAN distros
• I know there's been work on setting up a Perl community Matrix server; @ilmari and @stigtsp may be reached/worth contacting to see if they are ready for some public visibility. Currently (afaik) there's just a "General" channel there, plus CPANSec's two channels (linked to from their website).
• @simcop2387 has been experimenting with setting up a Friendica instance for Perl communities. Maybe worth reaching out to him to see if he'd like some visibility?

[book]

The Perl Toolchain Gang and the Perl Toolchain Summit are separate (but obviously connected) organisations.

I only really know about the Summit.

[smonff]

I think we talked a while a ago about adding The Weekly Newsletter to the mailing lists sections?

The Weekly Newsletter is a great source of "catch up on last week's Perl news" for all those who do not have the time to gather news on all the other social networks.

[smonff]

• Is there anything on Discord?

https://discord.gg/Mnbj6th

It was announced originally on Reddit and maybe on other channels.

[oalders]

There is Perl group on LinkedIn as well as #perl on libera.chat and, of course, irc.perl.org

Right now you need an invitation to join TPRF Slack. I am now an admin, so I can hand out invitations. Not sure if we have a better way to handle this.

I would probably mention StackOverflow as well.

It would be nice to list the upcoming conference in 2025.

[jhannah]

pm.org:

• I'll try to get maps back up Maps all broken: BillingNotEnabledMapError www.pm.org#195
• Can people open additional Issues in that repo for whatever else would "help shine up" pm.org?

Thanks!

[jhannah]

pm.org maps are back: https://www.pm.org/groups/