The Perl from Ipanema

Tall and tan and young and lovely, the Brazilian Perl communities have grown a lot over the past decade and have a lot to share with other communities worldwide. Sadly, though, most of the time it feels like there are huge barriers between South America and North America/Europe. I hope to change that a bit now :)

In this talk I share a little about the Brazilian Perl communities' past, present and future, and try to raise some awareness to the things we're doing around these parts, and how we're doing it.

Oh, and also invite everyone to visit us for some hacking by the beach, of course :)

Transcript

1. The Perl from Ipanema
3. GARU What my friends think I do What my parents think I do What society thinks I do What my girlfriend thinks I do What I think I do What I actually do
4. Ipanema
5. Brazil
6. Brasil
7. Brasil?
11. Brasil • 5th largest country in the world • 6th biggest economy (and rising) • 190 million inhabitants • Colonized by pretty much everybody
12. Brasil - The Bad Parts • Extremely high crime rate • Extremely high corruption rate • Extremely high taxes • Serious Health & Education issues • Not enough incentives towards R&D (exception: Petrobras)
13. Brazil & Perl • First commercial uses in the early ’90s • Mostly sysadmin work in ISPs • Huge telco boom in late ’90s, early 2000 • Bio* labs • Some few e-commerce websites • Scenario hasn’t changed that much since UOL 2000 - WAP Portal serves 40MI people Ponto Frio Estante Virtual
14. Early Perl Mongers • Curitiba.pm (1998) • PerlBR (mailing list only - 1998) • Rio.pm (2000) • São Paulo.pm (2000/2003) • Cascavel.pm (2002)
15. Perl Mongers in Brazil 13 and growing!
16. Big Challenges • Huge country • not a lot of interchange • poor transportation
17. Big Challenges • Very few good Perl developers • tons of hype-oriented devs, though
18. Big Challenges • Cultural issues • Smaller IT companies not used to sponsor • Brazilians can be very suspicious • Engagement == hard
19. Big Challenges • Very few english speakers • anywhere from 2% to 26% • Yes, even in IT
20. Brasil.pm • Unity of Effort (ish) • Help local PM organizing the YAPC • Stimulate the creation of new PM groups • Help existing PM groups • Spread Perl news/events/projects/tutorials • Serve as BR-BR and BR-World contact point
21. Projects • Perlito (fglock++) • Equinox Advent Calendar (maluco++) • Translating perldocs (everybody++) • Free Perl courses in major Universities • OpenData::BR (maluco++) • Perl booths, hackathons, workshops and YAPC
22. Brazilian CPAN • 74 authors (5th) • 21 active* (5th) • 0.38 authors / million inhabitants (15th) • 277 distributions (1.17%) (9th) acme.cpanauthors.org
23. Some CPAN Goodies • Paginator::Lite (BLABOS) • String::Compare (DRUOSO) • MooseX::Role::Cmd (EDENC) • CatalystX::OAuth2 (EDENC) • perltugues (FCO) • Devel::Hide (FERREIRA)
24. Some CPAN Goodies • Carp::Always (FERREIRA) • POD2::Base (FERREIRA) • Set::Infinite (FGLOCK) • DateTime::Incomplete (FGLOCK) • LWP::Curl (LORN) • subs::parallel (NILSONSFJ) • DataFlow (RUSSOZ)
25. Brazilian-aware Apps • Business::BR::{CPF, CNPJ, PIS, RG} • Locale::BR • Time::Duration::pt • Date::Holidays::BR • MooseX::Types::* • WWW::Correios::{CEP, SRO} • Geo::CEP
26. Attending non-BR Events
27. •ETOOFAR • closest: Perl Oasis (4357 miles / 7012 km) •ETOOEXPENSIVE • 1 USD ~ 2 BRL (sometimes more! =X ) Attending non-BR events?
28. .BR Perl Conferences • 2000 - 2004 • “National Perl Developers Meeting” • Inside other Free Software events
29. .BR Perl Conferences • 2005 - 2009 • 2 conferences a year: • YAPC::Brasil, during CONISLI • YAPC::SA, during FISL
30. .BR Perl Conferences • 2009 • Our own “Coffee Mug Incident”! • Standalone Perl Conference • “The Perl Conference we want”
31. .BR Perl Conferences • 2009 - 2012 • 2 yearly Perl conferences • São Paulo Perl Workshop (SPPW) • YAPC::Brasil • Still attending lots of FLOSS events
32. SPB (2003) • Brazilian Perl Society • Created in the same spirit as the JPA (2008) • Business Oriented • Able to gather funds and sponsoring •#FAIL =(
33. SPB, WHY U NO WORK? • Individuals x Companies • Unclear statements / goals • Tons of bureaucracy to make an NPO • Did I mention brazilians are suspicious?
34. SPB, Reloaded • Still an early draft • and probably will get a new name =) • Board made by companies • Focus on connecting jobs to devs
35. SPB v2 - How? • Brazilian “jobs.perl.org” • Perl events! • Free training for students • “Free” training for sponsoring companies • YAPCs, Hackathons, Workshops
36. YAPC::Brasil::2012 October - São Paulo/SP © Diógenes Araújo
37. Who’s Coming already? • Florian Ragwitz (rafl) • Peter Rabbitson (ribasushi) • Torsten Raudssus (getty) • Вячеслав Тихановский (vti)
38. WE WANT YOU To join us in Brazil !!
39. Thank You! Questions? © Babi Lemos garu@cpan.org @garu_rj onionstand.blogspot.com