Perl: Neither Dead Nor at a Dead End

James E Keenan

DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop
April 20, 2013

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Provocation ... errrr, The Inspiration

3. Open Source Projects
4. Death at an Early Age
5. Projects Need Replenishment

6. Hackathons
7. Centralized Hackathon
8. Distributed Hackathon
9. St Louis Perl Hackathon
11. New York Perl Hackathon
13. Distributed Hackathon: Criteria for Success
14. kid51's Law
15. Time for You to Organize a Hackathon
16. The End