I feel this article is mildly unfair towards the peel community. The perl user groups, perl mongers etc have been incredibly diffused and grassroot movements,

I feel this article is mildly unfair towards the peel community. The perl user groups, perl mongers etc have been incredibly diffused and grassroot movements, including cheap conferences and such. I'm no perl dev, but I think most of what subsequent communities did right builds on the camel's path.