maybe we should have a special blackstar london.pm meeting, where we
all buy blackstar free drinks until we drink them under the table.
oh thats right, they are also from the planet krypton, so they too
will be superhuman, fortunatly you have i, the son jor el to defend
you!
* Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> Subject: [yas] Damian Conway Awarded Perl Development Grant
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> Yet Another Society Community Funded Perl Development Grant
> Awarded to Damian Conway
>
> Sun Oct 29 16:07:57 EST 2000
>
> In an unprecedented two week contribution period, users, programmers,
> and companies involved with the Perl community raised enough
> funding to grant Damian Conway the first-ever Perl Development Grant
> through the Yet Another Society (http://yetanother.org).
>
> "The community just came together immediately and turned this from
> a possibility into a reality, in an unbelievably short time. Damian
> has been one of the most active members of the Perl community, and
> now he has a chance to spend a year working on something he really
> cares about -- Perl," said Kevin Lenzo, the president of Yet
> Another Society. "Individuals and companies that care about Perl
> have carried out a new kind of patronage here."
>
> Blackstar (http://www.blackstar.co.uk), an on-line video sales
> company, offered US$27,500 in matching contributions at the start of
> the fund raising, amounting to half of what was needed to buy out
> Dr. Conway's obligations at Monash University in Australia. Other
> major contributions came from VA Linux (http://www.valinux.com),
> Manning Publications (http://www.manning.com), Stonehenge Consulting
> (http://www.stonehenge.com), O'Reilly Publications
> (http://www.oreilly.com), and from several individuals. Funding over
> the base amount is to be used for travel and expenses.
>
> See http://yetanother.org/damian/ for more information. The list
> of contributors will be posted there, as will Dr. Conway's diary
> and calendar for the next year.
>
> Yet Another Society (YAS) is an organization dedicated to the
> advancement of collaborative efforts in Computer and Information
> Science, and is the parent organization of the Yet Another Perl
> Conference (http://www.yapc.org). YAS has applied for non-profit
> status in the United States. Dr. Damian Conway is a Lecturer
> at Monash University, and has contributed greatly to Perl. He
> is also the author of the book "Object Oriented Perl."
>
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>
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> Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
> perl hacker | book collector | the very model of a modern mailing list kook
> London.pm - meetings held on the day after the first wednesday of the month
>
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perl hacker | book collector | the very model of a modern mailing list kook
London.pm - meetings held on the day after the first wednesday of the month
