Given the four fundamental cultures - Clan (Collaborate), Adhocracy (Create), Hierarchy (Control), Market (Compete) - the Competing Values Framework Intro (12:15) instructively noted how Apple's culture changed over the years:

Let's similarly speculate on how Perl culture changed during the years of the Perl timeline:

* (Update): During this very early period merlyn used an unorthodox and aggressive Perl marketing tactic by answering usenet requests for Unix shell/sed/awk code with snippets of Perl code ... so much so that posters started inserting "No Perl please" in their posts! ... which of course was simply ignored. merlyn believed so strongly in this tactic that he formed part of the 2.7% who voted against the formation of a separate comp.lang.perl newsgroup in December 1989! ... so perhaps this early period should be Adhocracy/Market.

Note that these estimates are just my guesses of Perl's culture during these years; corrections and insights are welcome, especially from folks who were key players in these events. I'd also love to see interesting or instructive cultural anecdotes from the years of the Perl timeline, for example: The infamous Jon Orwant mug throwing incident.

BTW, I remember attending thriving Perl Mongers meetings in the early 2000s - which had a completely different feel to the C++, Python and Agile user groups I was also attending. The main difference was Perl's quirky humour (e.g. London.pm declares war on Paris.pm 💥💣🪖 and London.pm sponsoring a camel 🐪 at London Zoo). By comparison, the C++ and Python user groups were utterly humourless, the meetings having a totally different feel to them. The rise of Meetup changed everything; there were so many meetings that one of my workmates stopped buying food and cooking simply by attending a different geek Meetup group every night of the week (scoring free food each time)!

Update: See also: How long have you been using Perl? poll by vroom (and TimToady's reply ;-) ... and is he involved with Perl Development? - Re: Re: Re: Re: Synopsis 3 is out :)

In reply to Re: Organizational Culture (Part II): Meta Process (Perl Timeline) by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Organizational Culture (Part II): Meta Process by eyepopslikeamosquito

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