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use.perl.org has been around a really long time, and there's a LOT of history, useful stuff and important announcements in the stories, the blogs and their discussions.

And quite a few of these are linked to from other sites.

If we want to keep these links usable/working, then the URLs have to stay around - preferably "forever" (even if they are just converted to 302's pointing to their new location).

Is it possible to make sure the site keeps running at least until there's a sane replacement to switch to?

Being one of the organizers guilty of this sin, I can only say Sorry. :-/

All conferences I've been involved in have had video teams, all of the teams were volunteers, and almost all of them found reasons not to finish the monumental task of editing the recorded material.

This sucks, but as long as the conferences are super-cheap and volunteer-based, I don't see an easy way out of this. Video editing is difficult, time-consuming and tedious. It's really hard to ask people to spend their precious time on boring stuff, and the few times someone says yes, they quickly figure out their mistake and "drop out."

Last year's Nordic Perl Workshop in Oslo is one of the later victims of this. :-(

Thanks for the recap; I love reading them! :)

I agree. Thanks for writing these reports! :)

I'll be helping at the Perl stand at FOSDEM in Brussels this weekend. I'm bringing some promotional material (somewhat inspired by the cards Oslo.pm gave away at YAPC::EU::2008 and at NPW'09) and hopefully they'll go well over.

Looking forward to the beer, meeting people and do my first public announcement of that project I've been dreaming about the last few years.

See you there? :)

Awesome to see Vienna.pm do this. Kudos! :D

I hope you guys get a really nice and productive weekend at Metalab (and say hi to Kyrah from the Oslo hackerspace guys! :)

MRAMBERG!

Grats!

It's been a great 7-year ride, with lots of ups and downs, two Nordic Perl Workshops, two hackathons and a consistant push at giving the local Perl people in Oslo a regular meetingplace for talking about all kinds of things (sometimes even Perl-related stuff. :)

I'm sure Oslo.pm is in good hands now. Good luck, Marcus! (But just in case, I'll still hang around and play the role of the grumpy old fart. ;)

It's sooo nice to read these updates. Thanks! ^^

Hope you'll find the stay useful. :)

It does?

Wouldn't it be enough just to register the wish for retesting when some modules are installed, and then give a proper warning such a module is (about to be) installed? (Later, the warning could be picked up by the build tool and perhaps acted upon.)

Just stray thought;

Would it be sensible to have some kind of "re-testing" infrastructure? E.g. when testing some new module before upgrade, one also checks if there are any other packages that would like re-testing, but with the upgraded version.

I'm thinking this "re-testing" would at least give authors a faster feedback, presumably reducing the necessity for downgrading in the long run. :)

Please write a review of the book when you're done! ;-)

When I look for Perl stories/news, I actually check out use.perl.org first (then followed by different blog feeds I subscribe to with bloglines.com). That may sound weird, but I find the journal entries here very useful and informative, and when something shows up on the front page it's almost always something I'd like to know.

So when visiting use.perl.org I'm mostly looking for the following 3 things:

The Onion may seem a bit dry.
Try peel it, and cry out - "a lie!"
In tears you're still happy to say.
The Onion did make you, good day.

- Salve J. Nilsen (Oslo.pm, without poetic license.)

I think it's a great logo, but because of it's effect and not it's artisitc merit (I think it's as ugly as anything I've seen.) I'd guess the logo's purose is to motivate someone with talent to come up with something better (to which I really hope it succeeds. :)