Piers Cawley writes about the new happenings in the Perl world in "Healthcheck: Perl - The Perl Future" on Heise Open Source. Even though I was already aware of most of what he covers there, I found it a good read, and it is doubly recommended for people who are not following Perl news as thoroughly as I do.
Also see the LWN.net coverage (where I've learned about it).
