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Issue #522 - 2021-07-26 - Promote Perl
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Hi there I am sure many of you are aware of Outreachy. It all started with GNOME's Women's Summer Outreach Program (WSOP) in 2006. The idea was to encourage women's participation in Open Source projects. In 2009, the GNOME community revived the program to encourage more women to contribute to GNOME and renamed it to GNOME Outreach Program for Women. It became a very popular program in no time and successfully brought in more women into the fold. The program was further expanded with more organisations joining in e.g. Fedora, Mozilla, JBoss, OpenStack, Subversion etc. With the additions, in 2013, the program was renamed to the Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program. At one point, there were 16 organizations involved in this program. In 2015, the program was again renamed to Outreachy. Did I mention Perl in the above discussion? Well, in 2014, TPF sponsored an internship for Pattawan Kaewduangdee to work on MetaCPAN under the mentorship of Olaf Alders as a part of the Outreach Program for Women. There is another name that caught my eye, Upasana Shukla. I came across a blog post by Upasana where she mentioned how GNOME's Outreach Program for Women helped her get into the Perl fold. If you look at the list of interns from the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka) it is amazing. In recent years, TPF has sponsored Open Food Facts projects for Outreachy. In 2020, Areesha Tariq, from Pakistan successfully got the internship to work on the Open Food Facts project. Please check out this blog post by Areesha sharing her experience. It didn't stop there, a few weeks ago, TPF announced another intern, Rosheen Naeem, again from Pakistan, to work on the Open Food Facts project. You should check out her recent blog post about her journey. It is very inspiring. I would like to thank TPF for supporting the Perl projects and Outreachy. I can tell you from my own experience, we have great talent in the Indian Subcontinent. I wish more and more organisations would come forward and sponsor interns from these regions. When I started The Weekly Challenge - Perl & Raku, (a.k.a Perl Weekly Challenge), I was hoping to tap into the talent pool from this region, specially young college students. As the tagline says "You do not have to be an expert" to take part in the weekly challenge. Although we do have handful of students from Russia in the team. I am glad that, at least, we have built a platform where geeks from around the world come and share their experiences every week. Maybe one day we will have sponsors to help us reach out to young talent and bring new energy into the Perl community. Sometimes I wonder why we have never had a Perl Conference on the Indian subcontinent just like we have here in Europe and America. It shouldn't be too hard to hold one as these days everything is online. We could invite guest speakers from across the globe to address the talent in the region. Is there anyone out there willing to help us orgranise Perl Conference? A humble request to all fellow citizens of the United Kingdom, please don't listen to Boris Johnson (Prime Minister of the UK) and keep wearing masks in public and maintain social distancing. Enjoy rest of the newsletter until then. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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Announcements
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by Yuki Kimoto (KIMOTO) Announcement of the latest release of the Giblog web site creator app which is written in Perl. | 
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Articles
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by Cheok-Yin Fung A very nice collection about the usage of Perl in Academic Circles. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio came up nice little puzzle and showed the fun behind the scenes. Nice puzzle, could be a nice easy task for the weekly challenge. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Although it says toy, in my opinion it is a serious talk. Thanks Flavio for sharing it with us. You made it look so easy. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio is in a puzzle mood this week. It is always pleasure to read his blog. Enjoy. |
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Discussion
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by Felipe Gasper Felipe recently shared this post on Facebook which discusses a serious matter. Just wanted to present it to a wider section of the Perl audience. |
Web
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by Mark Gardner Mark continued his weekly blog fun and in this blog he discusses some good old complaints about the Perl language. It is a fun read. | 
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The Weekly Challenge
The Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Anwar will help you step out of your comfort zone. You can even win prize money of $50 Amazon voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month from among all of the contributors during the month. The monthly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers.
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Ugly Numbers" and "Square Points". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the FAQ. |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Average of Stream" and "Basketball Points" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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Perl Tutorial
A section for newbies and for people who need some refreshing of their Perl knowledge. If you have questions or suggestions about the articles, let me know and I'll try to make the necessary changes. The included articles are from the Perl Maven Tutorial and are part of the Perl Maven eBook.
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Videos
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Someone on Facebook shared this interview with Larry. Just resharing with a larger audience; nostalgic. |
Rakudo
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Weekly collections
The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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