Here's where things currently stand wrt TPF and funding for Perl 6 related activities:
* TPF is now active again. Special thanks to Nat Torkington for being
so responsive when I conveyed the list's concerns to him. * An on-line survey of the Perl community will be made available in
the very near future. It will be an opportunity for the whole
community -- including those of us primarily concerned with
Perl 6 -- to offer guidance to TPF as regards funding priorities. * A number of new grants will be announced soon. These will probably
include one or more grants targeted at Perl 6 design and/or
implementation. * TPF has been keeping a low profile over the last few months but has
not been idle. Since last fall, they continued to fund Larry through
the end of the year, helped with YAPC::Europe, are in the process of
getting the next YAPC::America running, gave a small grant to Dan,
and are currently looking at funding some Perl Monks site upgrades. * The issue of accepting donations targeted to a particular area
(e.g. Perl 6) has been raised and is being discussed.Once again, as soon as that survey is available, I will inform the mailing list.
Damian
