Community

• http://news.perlfoundation.org

Perl Mongers

• O'Reilly's Open Source Conference
• Started out as The Perl Conference and expanded
• http://conferences.oreilly.com

YAPC

• Yet Another Perl Conference
• Inexpensive,TPF-driven alternative to OSCON

• Online chat channels
• Freenode (irc.freenode.net) is least obnoxious
• MAGnet (irc.perl.org) has most hardcore Perl folks,but most obnoxious

Mailing lists

• Dozens of mailing lists at

• http://perlmonks.org
• Half message board,half Q&A session
• Most likely to be helpful to newbies

blogs.perl.org

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