I've just been learning perl and becoming acquainted with perlmonks within the past month or so, and I have a comment or suggestion or whatever you'd like to call it from a newbie's point of view. How would you experienced guys suggest someone get involved in the community or on some project? I've seen questions like this before where the answer was "Look on sourceforge for perl projects", but I'm going to have to disagree. As someone who is still trying to get his mind over things like regex's, not to mention any kind of complicated data structure, most projects of any merit are still well over my head. Sometimes I even feel like this site is over my head. That's not to say I don't enjoy it here, because I do, or I can't get my questions answered, because I have (and promptly!), but I don't really know how to get involved in a lot of the discussion or post anything but relatively simple questions because I am so new to the community. So, how would you all suggest a newbie get involved? Or, how did some of you who seem to know almost all the answers get involved when you were first starting?

In reply to Newbie Involvement by jgallagher

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