No subject

more for requests from teams that would actually be
willing to go to Germany on the competition date.  I'm
not sure if we all just wrote, "Hey I'm an IT
consultant using Perl/Catalyst or
Perl/FrameworkOfChoice and think you are making a big
mistake not putting Perl on your list." if that would
sway them.

They are betting no one will put up the cash to
sponsor a Perl team.  And they are looking for several
teams for each platform, enough to make a contest
between developers in a platform meaningful.

The rules specify that they won't be comparing
platforms, so their won't be any, "Perl versus ROR
verus J2EE" going on.  So that's why they want enough
people for a given platform to show up.

Now if we could identify some awesome Catalyst
developers who could are willing and available to go
to the contest and then raise money to send them I
think it could raise their attention.  We have to
decide if this particular contest represents a good
investment of our time and cash.  Perhaps some of the
local or reasonable local Perl Mongers could send some
teams?  It would show the strength of the community.

Anyone know more about the actual status and
recognition of this contest?  Would having perl
programmers at it meaningfully add to our mindshare in
the enterprise?

--john

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