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Have you completed the Perl Survey yet?

We're trying to get the number of respondents up over 4,000 this week, and we'd be particularly thrilled if we could reach out to more Perl people from non-English-speaking countries.

We currently have translations of the publicity materials and survey questions in the following languages: Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, and Swedish. Check out the translations page and if you know anyone who speaks any of those languages, please pass on the translated publicity emails, and ask them to spread the word.

If you speak a language other than English (that's not on the list already) and could provide a translation, instructions and a "translation kit" are available at the page linked above.

The Perl Survey is attempting to take a snapshot of the Perl world as it currently stands. Whether you're a web developer, sysadmin, or using Perl for scientific research or finance or just tracking your DVD collection, we'd love to hear about it.

We're trying to answer questions like:

• Where do Perl programmers come from?
• What sort of fields do they work in?
• What languages — computer and spoken — do Perl programmers use?
• How many use Perl as their primary language?
• What proportion of Perl users participate in the Perl community through mailing lists, user groups, and conferences?

The survey's open til the end of September. After it closes, we'll be releasing the results in various forms, including a full data set for you to download and play with.
http://perlsurvey.org/