This might be a cool thing to add to CPAN in the form of a "Tip Jar".
People/Companies could donate money through there and CPAN could also
keep track of donations as a form of popularity. Authors could also
"tithe" or mark some percentage to donate to the Perl Foundation.
I had looked at doing this a few months ago as a Perl Grant, but the
hang up is the payment technology. Some of the bigger players (Amazon,
PayPal, Google Checkout) restrict who can sign up to receive money,
nationality-wise. Since the CPAN authorhood is a diverse group, we
couldn't get complete coverage.
- Jason
Dave Rolsky wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, David Cantrell wrote:
IIRC Amazon have a donation thing. If you have an Amazon wishlist,
point people at that too. About half the donations I get for CPANdeps
are in the form of books and DVDs.
In my case, I mostly don't want stuff, so I'd really prefer people to
send cash or nothing. For the stuff I do want, I generally either buy
local, used, or both, so cash works well for that ;)
-dave
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