I think "structure" is much too strong of a word for what I'm trying to get across. When I think of a "Boosters' Club", I think of a merry band of professionals, all volunteer, who pledge to root for the home team/community.

It looks like the irony in my post didn't work. :-) It was supposed to be a humuorous attempt to inspire a partriotic call to action. I guess I should have run it through an editor first. Anyway, I'm only half serious when I talk about a "President" and "Representatives". I didn't mean to conjure up ideas of "institution" and "bureaucracy". When I think of a Boosters' Club, I think of Fred Flinstone and Barney Rubble going to the Buffalo meeting every Wednesday (from what I've seen of your code examples, I know you can relate to this :-)). They have elections, a president, etc. but the main purpose of the club is just comradery and fun and help kick off the community anti-litterbug campaign.

You asked if we could agree on what problems exist. Well, I can only talk about the the "problem" from my own perspective. The problem is that I have an urge to help PM grow and prosper. I feel this compelling obligation because I probably would have grown bored and stopped studying Perl a long time ago without some kind of connection to others in the programming world. PerlMonks has given me that connection and I greatly appreciate it. I'm just guessing that many others feel the same way and might want to have some fun showing their appreciation and find a way to pay PM back, that's all.

$PM = "Perl Monk's";
$MCF = "Most Clueless Friar Abbot Bishop";
$nysus = $PM . $MCF;
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