What would need to happen for PerlMonks to grow in activity?

In the early 2000s, I tried Perl Monks and Stack Overflow and Perl related mailing lists. At first I liked the mailing lists (especially fun with perl ... though not perl 5 porters, which I found to be the opposite of fun ;-). Over time, I stopped visiting SO and posting to Perl mailing lists, but stuck with Perl Monks, mainly due to the enjoyable sense of community here. Having said that, I don't know how to promote and enhance the Perl Monks sense of community. Suggestions welcome.

What would have to happen to get Perl to become a more universally used language?

This is easier to answer: make Perl more attractive for new projects! As argued convincingly in the Why Perl Didn't Win essay, an ecosystem focused on maintaining existing projects, rather than creating new projects, will be less attractive for new projects :) ... and being adopted for new projects is how you win the language war in the long run. This interesting topic is analysed in much more detail at Organizational Culture (Part VI): Sociology. 

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In reply to Re^4: Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6 (communities) by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6 by talexb

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