Welcome to Enlightened Perl
Supporting Production Perl
Enlightened Perl is a membership organization within the Perl community, It has goals that are complementary to the Perl Foundation. Specifically, we support many Perl development efforts that ensure Perl’s future as an enterprise-grade development platform.
The EPO helps to manage many Perl projects, competitions, initiatives and conferences. Lending business aid, advice and management services on a not-for-profit basis. All donations and membership fees are used in direct support of community projects.
EPO sponsors the following projects
Meta::Cpan – CPAN Testers – Strawberry Perl – The Perl Conference –
London Perl Workshop – Perl @ FOSDEM



The EPO Needs You
Historical Situation Over the last few years there has been an erosion of the EPO membership. This was primarily a fault with the site management…
Notes from the Benches
This week (August 7th-11th) we held the first ever Enlightened Perl Hackathon while attending the Perl Conference in Amsterdam. Also at the same event Mark…
Send-A-Newbie
The Return of a Great Idea The send-a-newbie initiative from the Enlightened Perl Organisation[1] ran for several years until it took a hiatus in 2015.…
A Very Special Relationship
Atikon and the Enlightened Perl Organisation An Organisation like the EPO relies on a continuous stream of donations, membership and sponsorship to help fund the…
CPAN Testers Funds
I am currently running the first batch of the end of year accounts for the Enlightened Perl Auditor which are now due. This is a…
MetaCPAN Workshop
The first ever MetaCPAN Workshop is going to be held in the city of Chicago in November (from the 17 To the 20) and the…