True that, Beatnik, however, they still wouldn't have the tasty morsel goodness of good Perl Monks insight. :) But yes, there is enough code from CPAN on cd that it could encircle the moon many times over, I just think that this cd would also be maybe I collectors item too?
Remember that items from the past, while hopelessly out of date, ring up a high price of what it is worth, and if someone ever brought an old 2001 Perl Monks collectors cd to an antiques road show, they might have a lot of extra spending money :).
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Personally I doubt pressing the PM nodes on CD each month will show the genuine, unreproduceable spirit of this very nice Perl community.
Besides the spirit, there are a fewer other things that will be missing (altho technically they'll be there).
- Up/Downvoting (good and bad sense)
- Anonymous Monk posts flaming & the NodeReaper on his tail
- Chatterbox (Don't surf without it!!)
- The everchanging process of Homenode Extravaganza
- Gaining new XPs and knowing where they're coming from
- Best Nodes & Worst Nodes
- Borg's Belly
- Updating/Cleaning up nodes
- XP Whoring newbies and the humour surrounding it
Pressing this all on CD is impossible. A picture can say a thousand words but the Monestary has more than thousands words. Selecting which words are pressed on CD and which are not will be a tough job. Also consider that The Monestary runs as a dynamic website, with a flexible back end engine. You'd need to install a webserver and the appropriate modules (Everything2 and probably some required ones too).
You might as well convince P5P to only discuss Perl topics using Microsoft proprietary formats.
Just my E0.02...
Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.
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