I agree. I've always had an interest in ways I could give back to the community, but it can be hard to come up with something, especially if it's just for the sake of community involvement.

I have found in the past that it's often useful to me to assemble modules out of any code that I'm working on that is sufficiently reuseable. It takes a little more work to clean them up and write helpful documentation, but after that effort, it's a great feeling to make those modules available on CPAN.

In fact, once you share some code, there are people just waiting to help and make suggestions if they find your code and use it. Knowing I've made someone's life a little easier makes coding that much more worthwhile, at least to me. --andy

In reply to Re^2: Reciprocating to the perl community by a,s5
in thread Reciprocating to the perl community by stonecolddevin

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