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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