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• less talk, more action (Score:2)

  by TeeJay (2309) on 2007.01.09 9:23 (#52652) Homepage Journal

  Given the large number of employers who need perl skills, rely on and benefit from it, you'd think they would talk to each other about how to solve the problem.
  
  We have a huge number of computer science students who will graduate having never heard of or thought about perl, if only some big employers evangelised about how great it was to beyond the perl monger choir.
  
  I don't employ any perl people, but am involved in finding the occasional contractor and have helped people fill gaps, but I've also organised local perl monger meetings where we've had students and all kinds of people who are neither perl mongers nor part of what we see as the perl community. I never saw any perl employers approaching Uni's when I was at uni, and I don't see any now.
  
  I don't see the people complaining about how hard it is to recruit doing anything useful to bring more decent people into the job market, instead fighting to poach the same people or making unreasonable requirements.
  
  

  --
  
  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
  print reverse @JAPH;

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  • Re: (Score:1)

    by mpeters (5802)

    I agree. The Perl community needs to reach out better to new programmers (and it's easy to find them at universities). I was first introduced to Perl when I was still in college by a small local business and if I hadn't been, I probably would have continued with the C/C++/Java/C# stuff that the university was teaching with.
    
    Maybe each YAPC should take this into consideration and "donate" a certain number of tickets to local universities to attract new and interested parties. Maybe talk to the CS programs at