From Bill Odom, the president of TPF:
TPF's been a busy little foundation lately. Interesting things are taking shape, and you'll be seeing announcements about some of them very soon. Be sure to stay tuned.
Much of this progress is a result of the excellent feedback we've received from the community. (It's not always pleasant feedback, but it's useful all the same.) But we're a greedy bunch, and making progress just makes us want to make more.
That means we need to continue to hear from you. Do you know what TPF does, and what it supports? What can we do to keep you better informed? Perhaps most importantly, what else do you want us to do, or to do more often?
We've got lots of ideas, but limited resources. It's critical that we know what you need most. How can we serve you, our community, more effectively?
Go to that link and tell 'im what you think.
Cheers,
Ovid
New address of my CGI Course.
I've often wondered at the lack of responses on TPF blog since I thought it should get a lot of responses. I recently posted there and noticed moderation is in effect. This, along with Garrett Goebel's post on lack of transparency at TPF, makes me wonder how many posts do not get approved/displayed.
Some project blogs I've seen are either unmoderated or have a very fast and very liberal filter. The RoR blog comes to mind with all the comments they had on the recent Rails security patches. Many of the comments were clearly things they chose not to officially discuss but they posted the comments for the community.
I'm not sure how many people are commenting to TPF blog and how many comments don't get shown. What are people's experiences? Does this happen a lot? If so, does it make sense for TPF blog to be less moderated? An alternative is to run an "Unofficial TPF" blog which links to TPF blog articles but allows unmoderated comments. Would something like this be more effective in generating discussion about TPF and Perl?
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):
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
All TPF blog entries which are not spam are approved. The only ones we reject are obvious spam entries. I try to go through and make clean up the spam periodically, but if it's a legitimate response, it's approved whether I (or anyone else) likes it or not.
The only thing I can think of is that the entry was marked as "junk" by accident. If so, I apologize. I'll talk with Robert and Ask and see if there is a better way of handling this. In any event, thank you for your feedback. We really appreciate it!
Cheers,
Ovid
New address of my CGI Course.