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Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 14:14:05 +1000 From: Toby Wintermute <[email protected]> To: "Melbourne.pm" <[email protected]> Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Fwd: Perl 5 core maintenance fund drive ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> Date: 30 June 2011 03:59 Subject: Perl 5 core maintenance fund drive You may or may not be aware that Dave Mitchell, one of the longstanding Perl 5 core committers, has been paid for the past year or so to work on fixing hard and long standing bugs in the Perl 5 core, thanks to a generous grant of $50,000 booking.com made to TPF. However, that money is almost exhausted. Dave would be happy to continue, and I'm now in a position where I'd be able and willing to be paid to work on maintaining and bettering the Perl 5 core. Hence The Perl Foundation has launched a "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund", and a funding drive to raise an initial $25,000, to cover 3 months work. Better still, Vienna Perl Mongers will match the first $10,000 of donations, dollar for dollar, putting the surplus from YAPC::Europe 2007 to very good use. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund http://vienna.pm.org/10_000_dollars_for_the_perl5_core_maintenance_fund.html https://secure.donor.com/pf012/give <-- donate here <-- TPF are looking for both for individual and corporate donations. I'd hope that it particularly appeals to companies wishing to give something back to Perl, or wanting to raise their visibility in the Perl world, and to Perl developers. Given the number of firms in London currently trying hard to recruit Perl developers, I'd hope that they see this as a much-cheaper-than-pimps way of getting themselves noticed, ahead of their competition. Much that I'd love to, I can't actually promise that donating will get you a better class of candidate when recruiting, but TPF is able to offer the following * donating $1000 or more gets your logo used, and a mention in the weekly report(s) you paid for * donate $10000 or more and TPF will issue a joint press release thanking you profusely, on their homepage and of course, while match funds last (so get in quick) * "Buy Dave, get me free". Or something like that :-) Nicholas Clark PS Even though this message mentions the naughty 4 letter word, I consider it still "on topic", as it's about raising money for me to buy beer. [And pay the rent, utility bills, food, and all the other things that real life (tm) has to offer to separate the living from their money] _______________________________________________ Melbourne-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pm -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://shlom.in/sw-quality Chuck Norris can end world hunger, but he thinks that hungry people make humanity a more challenging adversary. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
