Originally published at Perl Weekly 646

Hi there,

December is normally the busiest month of the year as we get to participate in two events i.e. 24 Pull Requests and Advent Calendars for many programming languages e.g. Perl, Raku, The Weekly Challenge. As mentioned in the weekly newsletter by Gabor Szabo, there is an aggregation of Advent Calendars managed by Len Jaffe.

In the last edition of newsletter, I requested for sponsor. To my surprise, I have had few offers came through. It is still early stage of discussion. I am hopefull something positive will come out of it. I am keeping fingers crossed.

Have you contributed to Perl Advent Calendar 2023?

If not then you should and share your real life experience with Perl. You can find the details on GitHub repository. I missed the deadline last year but this year I really didn't want to miss the train. Luckily, thanks to Olaf Alders and team, my contribution got accepted and merged. It is now allocated Day 10 in the calendar.

Enjoy the fesive season and look after yourself.

--
Your editor: Mohammad S. Anwar.

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Perl Weekly #646 - Festive Season