> I've repeatedly encountered remarks about how much Perl 6 > development is constrained by the fairly severe time and > energy constraints of its overwhelmingly volunteer > development team.
I think that is a valid point. On the other hand the language has to become mature gradually, and that process can't be sped up easily. But I think in many areas we have reached that maturity now. > So over the next few months, I'm planning to learn about > fundraising, and see what I can accomplish on behalf of Perl > 6 development. Very nice. > To that end, I'm soliciting: > (1) your suggestions for preparation, > (2) your ideas for proposals, and > (3) your reasons why the Perl 6 ecosystem (including Parrot > and CPAN6) is one of the world's greatest and and most > extremely leveraged causes (technically, economically, > and socially). > > I'll also put whatever fundraising-oriented material I come > up with on the Perl 6 wiki, to help and encourage others > along similar lines. I'd like to raise the question what to do with the money, assuming that you can acquire some. I see two possible route: 1) Let The Perl Foundation decide what to do with the money advantage: they already have a comitee (is that really an advantage? ;-) disadvantage: they seem to think that Perl 6 on Parrot is _the_ and the only way to go. (There's nothing wrong with rakudo and parrot, but Perl 6 is, by definition, a language. And it should have multiple implementations) 2) Decide it in some other way, without involvement from TPF. advantage: presumably no bias towards one implementation disadvantage: we have to think of a way to decide who gets the money. (And hackers tend to not wanting to decide such things, and invest time into them). As for your third point, why Perl 6 (+parrot) is the all empowering technology: * it unites many programming paradigms * simple but powerful parsing facilities * modern concurrency (think STM, autothreading) * mechanisms to easily interoperate with other languages * it's easy to use libraries from other dynamic languages * backwards compatibility to perl 5 (not on the language level though) Cheers, Moritz
