Re: Forwarded : [yas] Damian Conway Awarded Perl Development Grant

[Greg McCarroll]

* Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> hey .. cute .. s'mazin innit how money can be made to appear for a damm
> good cause. 


yup, and its nice to see all of it (minus merchant fees on credit
cards), going to the cause

> 
> > is also the author of the book "Object Oriented Perl."
> 
> oh well ... since I miserably failed to contribute to that I suppose I'd
> better make a token effort and buy his book then ;-))
> 

extra money contributed to YAS helps to pay Damian to visit Europe,
and i'm sure we can arrange a London.pm meeting with him speaking

however do buy the book, its one of the best perl books around

Greg 

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