Since my blog comment wasn't approved, I posted my TPF recommendations on my own blog. Basically it comes down to three things (for starters):

  1. Community Events Calendar: something like the right sidebar on PHP.net's homepage but for YAPCs, PM meetings, Hackathons and one-offs like the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop. A dynamic events calendar on the perl.org and pm.org homepages can easily show people what's happening in the community.
  2. Use Perl-based software on TPF sites: the Planet Perl, Planet Perl Six and Planet Parrot sites say "powered by python" and/or "powered by planetplanet" (planetplanet is python-based sofware). It would be nice if those sites migrated to Plagger so they would be Perl-based.
  3. Better communication: I get the feeling TPF doesn't communicate with the community very well. It may be better if they communicated more like an open source project, e.g. (a) talk about future plans, (b) respond to emails, (c) have unmoderated comments on the blog and (d) have a public IRC channel (is there one?).

Just my 2 cents.

In reply to Re: TPF RFC by jwang
in thread TPF RFC by Ovid

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