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          <strong>enlightened</strong> |en'litnd|: <em>adjective</em>:<br />
          having or showing a rational, 
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                Enlightened Perl is an organization which is built around a movement within the Perl community.
                Its goals are complementary to the Perl Foundation. Specifically, we support certain Perl development 
                efforts that ensure perl's future as an enterprise-grade development platform. Its aims are:
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                   Improvements to the public facing parts of existing Perl projects, including design and content
                   organisation and accessibility, by co-operation with the projects involved to see where their
                   volunteer capacity is lacking;
                 </li>
                 <li>
                   Eliciting the creation and/or improvement of tutorials, screencasts, books, reference
                   documentation, training courses and other accessible documentation to make it easier 
                   for new users to get started with modern Perl;
                 </li>
                 <li>
                   Encouraging people to blog their experiences of Perl development, both as individuals 
                   and as part of corporations, in order to raise the profile of Perl across the blogosphere 
                   and social media aggregators;
                 </li>
                 <li>
                   Simplyfing and streamlining the installation of common "new wave of CPAN" libraries, 
                   and applications developed using them, in order to simplify experimentation and deployment;
                 </li>
                 <li>
                   Grants for development of specific pieces of code that scratch no developer's itch, 
                   but make corporate and/or hobbyist adoption of enlightened Perl easier;
                 </li>
                 <li>
                   Production of articles and white papers to provide a senior management level view 
                   of the advantages of modern Perl as a platform for new development;
                 </li>
                 <li>
                   Getting organisations already using modern Perl to speak out about their success stories, 
                   and helping them to get involved with the community.
                 </li>
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              Why you should join the Enlightened Perl Organisation:
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                 <li>
                   As a company in a competitive global market, it is imperative to find and secure 
                   quality development staff.  As a sponsoring organization, it is evident that 
                   there is a clear understanding of modern Perl and a pledge to support further 
                   development.  This promotes the idea of an enjoyable working environment, as well 
                   as higher success rates tapping into the community channels and the wealth of 
                   knowledge present there.
                 </li>
                 <li>
                   As a company with a software development department, the ever growing challenge 
                   of finding and securing quality development staff is made more difficult by a 
                   competitive global market.  Corporate and Organizational sponsorship of EPO is 
                   an advertisement for highly talented developers to know they'll make a good decision 
                   working for a company that understands and wants to use modern Perl.  Furthermore, 
                   showing the community that you support the future development of the language and 
                   advocating enlightened development helps establish a foothold in a brilliant and 
                   helpful social community, which is centered around knowledge sharing.
                </li>
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                  As an individual, organisation membership shows your commitment to having modern 
                  Perl skills that are usable on large, modern projects, and an understanding that 
                  maintainability and return on investment beat cool hacks for commercial work any time.
                </li>
                <li>
                  As either, membership will allow you to get easy access to the working groups/special 
                  interest groups within the Enlightened Perl Organisation and to have a say in the 
                  direction of both the organisation itself and of our strategies for putting the time 
                  and funds available to us to best use.
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81	About Enlightened Perl
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83	<p class="first">
84	Enlightened Perl is an organization which is built around a movement within the Perl community.
85	Its goals are complementary to the Perl Foundation. Specifically, we support certain Perl development
86	efforts that ensure perl's future as an enterprise-grade development platform. Its aims are:
87	</p>
88	<ul>
89	<li>
90	Improvements to the public facing parts of existing Perl projects, including design and content
91	organisation and accessibility, by co-operation with the projects involved to see where their
92	volunteer capacity is lacking;
93	</li>
94	<li>
95	Eliciting the creation and/or improvement of tutorials, screencasts, books, reference
96	documentation, training courses and other accessible documentation to make it easier
97	for new users to get started with modern Perl;
98	</li>
99	<li>
100	Encouraging people to blog their experiences of Perl development, both as individuals
101	and as part of corporations, in order to raise the profile of Perl across the blogosphere
102	and social media aggregators;
103	</li>
104	<li>
105	Simplyfing and streamlining the installation of common "new wave of CPAN" libraries,
106	and applications developed using them, in order to simplify experimentation and deployment;
107	</li>
108	<li>
109	Grants for development of specific pieces of code that scratch no developer's itch,
110	but make corporate and/or hobbyist adoption of enlightened Perl easier;
111	</li>
112	<li>
113	Production of articles and white papers to provide a senior management level view
114	of the advantages of modern Perl as a platform for new development;
115	</li>
116	<li>
117	Getting organisations already using modern Perl to speak out about their success stories,
118	and helping them to get involved with the community.
119	</li>
120	</ul>
121
122	<p class="first">
123	Why you should join the Enlightened Perl Organisation:
124	</p>
125	<p>
126	<ul>
127	<li>
128	As a company in a competitive global market, it is imperative to find and secure
129	quality development staff. As a sponsoring organization, it is evident that
130	there is a clear understanding of modern Perl and a pledge to support further
131	development. This promotes the idea of an enjoyable working environment, as well
132	as higher success rates tapping into the community channels and the wealth of
133	knowledge present there.
134	</li>
135	<li>
136	As a company with a software development department, the ever growing challenge
137	of finding and securing quality development staff is made more difficult by a
138	competitive global market. Corporate and Organizational sponsorship of EPO is
139	an advertisement for highly talented developers to know they'll make a good decision
140	working for a company that understands and wants to use modern Perl. Furthermore,
141	showing the community that you support the future development of the language and
142	advocating enlightened development helps establish a foothold in a brilliant and
143	helpful social community, which is centered around knowledge sharing.
144	</li>
145	<li>
146	As an individual, organisation membership shows your commitment to having modern
147	Perl skills that are usable on large, modern projects, and an understanding that
148	maintainability and return on investment beat cool hacks for commercial work any time.
149	</li>
150	<li>
151	As either, membership will allow you to get easy access to the working groups/special
152	interest groups within the Enlightened Perl Organisation and to have a say in the
153	direction of both the organisation itself and of our strategies for putting the time
154	and funds available to us to best use.
155	</li>
156	</ul>
157	</p>
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