As part of their reviews, I said that before their next review, they should submit a module to the CPAN.
I find that highly abhorrent. You want to make the jobs of your employees more enjoyable, yet you treat them like children. CPAN is the fruit of a volunteer community, not a conscripted army (but of course those may be the same thing if you subscribe to communism which your approach reeks of).

If you want to broaden their horizons, why not give them some time to work on any open-source project that interests them, or send them on a course of their chosing. Making it compulsory takes out all the joy, defeats the spirit of the open-source adventure, and just plain sucks.

In reply to Re: Giving back to the community by Arunbear
in thread Giving back to the community by bprew

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