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  41             enlightened perl organisation
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  44           <strong>enlightened</strong> |en'litnd|: <em>adjective</em>:<br />
  45           having or showing a rational,
  46           modern, and well-informed outlook </p>
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  81               About Enlightened Perl
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  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>
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 123               Why you should join the Enlightened Perl Organisation:
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 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.
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