Perl Advocacy

[Greg McCarroll]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:00:12AM +0000, Kake L Pugh wrote:
> On Sat 23 Feb 2008, Greg McCarroll <greg at mccarroll.org.uk> wrote:
> > So I have a request. If you are in London (or England/UK[1]), using Perl,
> > wheter you are Venda or Shadowcat, the BBC or Morgan S., could you please
> > email me and give me the permission to use your logo on a 'companies who
> > use Perl in London'[1] page. [...]
> > 
> > [1] I think for the sake of value we'll just fudge the definition of
> > 'London', etc.
> 
> I just checked with Greg on IRC[2] and he is happy to fudge the definition
> of "company" as well - so if you work for local government, or you volunteer
> with a local community group, etc, and you use Perl, then he would be
> interested in hearing from you, too.
> 

And to further emphasise this, I don't care if Morton Statley's scout group
appear in the logo list beside other people. 

All I really want is a 'sales tool'[1] for people who want to suggest Perl
to their bosses and maybe benefit IMHO from list of logo's that use Perl.

G.

p.s. the good news for me is that we already have a volunteer to admin
such a page, kudos to him.

[1] yes i realise i'm a sad sales orientated person, but i'm pretty sure 
i'm not the only perl hacker in my position.