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There's no such thing as "The Perl Community"

We often talk about “The Perl Community”, but I don’t think it exists. Instead what we have is a loose, and at times fraught, federation of communities. Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking and talking about this a lot, so I wanted to share some of those thoughts, and hear what others think. This is not me trying to tell you how things are, but how I see things, and also to outline some things that I think might help us be less fraught…

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