Survey

The questions

The survey asked the following questions:

SECTION 1: Basic Demographics

• Sex
• Year of birth
• Country of birth
• Country of residence
• Primary language spoken
• Annual personal income (USD equivalent)
• What industry/ies do you work in?

SECTION 2: Programming Perl and Other Languages

• How many years have you been programming Perl?
• How many years have you been programming in any language?
• What other languages are you fluent in?
• What did we miss?
• How much of your programming, in the last year, has been in Perl?
• What versions of Perl have you used in the last year?
• What platforms have you used Perl on in the last year?

SECTION 3: Perl Community

For these sections, check any items you have done in the last twelve months.

Mailing lists and websites

Have you…

• Been a member/subscriber of a Perl mailing list or Usenet newsgroup
• … and posted to it
• Been a member/subscriber of a Perl Mongers mailing list
• … and posted to it
• Contributed to Perlmonks
• Contributed to other Perl websites (forums, wikis, blogs)

Gatherings

Have you…

• Attended a Perl Mongers meeting
• … in another city
• Attended a Perl conference, or any other conference with considerable Perl content
• … more than 1000km (approx 600 miles) away
• Presented at a Perl conference, Perl Monger meeting, or about Perl to any other group

Open source software contributions

Have you…

• Contributed to CPAN
• Contributed to Perl 5 (via p5p)
• Contributed to Perl 6 (pugs, parrot, etc)
• Contributed Perl code to other open source software projects
• Founded or led other open source projects in Perl
• Submitted bug reports or feedback to the authors of Perl software

Also:

• If you contribute to CPAN, how many distributions do you currently maintain?