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Episodes
Episode 9 - Olaf Kolkman (part 1)
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Olaf Kolkman has had a long career in open source. In this first part, we discussed his involvement with Perl, DNSSEC and NLnet Labs.
Episode 8 - A tangent about the Perl Toolchain Summit
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As preparations are underway for the Perl Toolchain Summit 2026, this short episode is the last excerpt recorded during PTS 2025 (as a tangent during ...
Episode 7 - CPAN Security Group
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the last of the interviews recorded during the Perl Toolchain Summit 2025 in Leipzig, this time with the CPAN Security Group. We talked about ...
Episode 6 - CPAN Testers
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the Perl Toolchain Summit 2025 in Leipzig, we interviewed the CPAN Testers team. They told us about the history of the project, its recent prob...
Episode 5 - Test::Smoke
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the Perl Toolchain Summit 2025 in Leipzig, we interviewed Merijn Brand, Test::Smoke's founder, and Thibault Duponchelle, its new maintainer fol...
Episode 4 - The Cyber Resilience Act
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the Perl Toolchain Summit 2025, Salve Nilsen and I had a long conversation about the CRA and Steward Organizations. We thought it would be grea...
Episode 3 - MetaCPAN
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the Perl Toolchain Summit 2025 in Leipzig, we interviewed the MetaCPAN team about the history of the project, how it's managed and where it's g...
Episode 2 - Perl 42
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The next version of Perl is going to be v5.42.0. Or maybe 42.0? Listen to Perl leaders arguing about what version numbers represent, and what it means...
Episode 1 - Perl Leadership
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, we assembled a cast of Perl leaders, and talked about Perl versions. At the end of the scheduled time, we hadn't started discussing ...
Episode 0 - The New Perl Logo
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was an experiment: how hard can it be to record a podcast? Find a topic (the new Perl logo), a few people who have something to say about...