Civic Hacking, Youth Education, and popularizing Perl



By Joshua Turcotte Photo
Lightning talk
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: civic education hacking perl youth


I would like to rant meta for a bit and string together a slew of separate experiences I have been having, re: the diminishing community supporting perl, thrusts to make new generations of coders (see: raspberry pi), and civic hacking (bringing the power of code to good to assist communities and governments... sometimes with problems they didn't know they had.) If we can tie all this together, perhaps a little perl evangelism can go a long way.

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