Community Sites

Perl's homepage at http://www.perl.org/ links to Perl documentation, source code, tutorials, mailing lists, and several important community projects. If you're new to Perl, the Perl beginners mailing list is a friendly place to ask novice questions and get accurate and helpful answers. See http://learn.perl.org/faq/beginners.html.

The home of Perl development is http://dev.perl.org/, which links to relevant resources for core development of Perl 5 and Perl 6Though see also http://www.perl6.org/.

Perl.com publishes articles and tutorials about Perl and its culture. Its archives reach back into the 20th century. See http://www.perl.com/.

The CPAN's (cpan) central location is http://www.cpan.org/, though experienced users spend more time on http://search.cpan.org/. This central software distribution hub of reusable, free Perl code is an essential part of the Perl community. MetaCPAN (https://metacpan.org/) is a recent alternative front end to the CPAN.

PerlMonks, at http://perlmonks.org/, is a community site devoted to discussions about Perl programming. Its eleven year history makes it one of the most venerable question and answer sites for any programming language.

Several community sites offer news and commentary. http://blogs.perl.org/ is a free blog platform open to any Perl community member.

Other sites aggregate the musings of Perl hackers, including http://perlsphere.net/, http://planet.perl.org/, and http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/. The latter is part of an initiative from the Enlightened Perl Organization (http://enlightenedperl.org/) to increase the amount and improve the quality of Perl publishing on the web.

Perl Buzz (http://perlbuzz.com/) collects and republishes some of the most interesting and useful Perl news on a regular basis. Perl Weekly (http://perlweekly.com/) offers a weekly take on news from the Perl world.

Development Sites

Best Practical Solutions (http://bestpractical.com/) maintains an installation of their popular request tracking system, RT, for CPAN authors as well as Perl 5 and Perl 6 development. Every CPAN distribution has its own RT queue, linked from search.cpan.org and available on http://rt.cpan.org/. Perl 5 and Perl 6 have separate RT queues available on http://rt.perl.org/.

The Perl 5 Porters (or p5p) mailing list is the focal point of the development of Perl 5 itself. See http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl5-porters.

The Perl Foundation (http://www.perlfoundation.org/) hosts a wiki for all things Perl 5. See http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5.

Many Perl hackers use Github (http://github.com/) to host their projects... including the sources of this book at http://github.com/chromatic/modern_perl_book/. See especially Gitpan (http://github.com/gitpan/), which hosts Git repositories chronicling the complete history of every distribution on the CPAN.

Events

The Perl community holds countless conferences, workshops, seminars, and meetings. In particular, the community-run YAPC--Yet Another Perl Conference--is a successful, local, low-cost conference model held on multiple continents. See http://yapc.org/.

The Perl Foundation wiki lists other events at http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?perl_events.

Hundreds of local Perl Mongers groups get together frequently for technical talks and social interaction. See http://www.pm.org/.

IRC

When Perl mongers can't meet in person, many collaborate and chat online through the textual chat system known as IRC. Many of the most popular and useful Perl projects have their own IRC channels, such as #moose and #catalyst.

The main server for Perl community is irc://irc.perl.org/. Notable channels include #perl-help, for general assistance on Perl programming, and #perl-qa, devoted to testing and other quality issues. Be aware that the channel #perl is a general purpose channel for discussing whatever its participants want to discuss... and, as such, it's not primarily a helpdesk..

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