--- Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think this is mostly TPF's communications problem. People don't
> know about the grants, or don't know what is likely to be accepted,
> don't know when to apply, etc.
Suggestions on this are welcome. Grant application time is usually
accompanied by
> From: Gabor Szabo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 2:04 PM
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
> >
> > > I am mostly ignoring the rest of what others have said in this
> thread
>
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
>
> > I am mostly ignoring the rest of what others have said in this thread
> > because I think it is detracting from your intention of getting money to
> > people to work more.
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's what made me come to the conclusion that it's really "The Parrot
Foundation".
As brian mentioned, the NLNet grant is what's driving the Parrot work.
AFAIK, there haven't been any Parrot-related grants for a long time
besides that one and t
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's what made me come to the conclusion that it's really "The Parrot
> Foundation".
It's not The Parrot Foundation. It's that NLNet gave a very large
targeted grant for Parrot. It's a single big donation that's driving
that.
I'm wo
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
I am mostly ignoring the rest of what others have said in this thread
because I think it is detracting from your intention of getting money to
people to work more. Here is one thing that has frustrated me about TPF.
They are a non-profit organization.
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote:
Someone earlier in this thread mentioned that this can't be done
directly because of rules surrounding TPF's non-profit status. Someone
else pointed out the problems with TPF officers benefitting directly
from the donations, even though some of the
> I've seen that Daniel Ruoso applied for a grant for his smop project,
> basically a virtual machine and fast backend for kp6, and perhaps other
> implementations.
>
> TPF decided not to invest into yet another implementation.
I appreciate that it is a subtle distinction to make, too subtle to
r
Hi everyone,
Guess it's time for me to finally join the discussion. :-) I've been paying
attention to this thread since it started.
> > Which made me think ... wasn't this why Mozilla created a corporation?
>
I believe one can find online write-ups from the people involved with the
decision to
> In article
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Conrad Schneiker
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> 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. To that end, I'm soliciting:
>
> It's not really a money problem. It's
In article
, Conrad Schneiker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. To that end, I'm soliciting:
It's not really a money problem. It's finding someone to give the money
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
> Someone earlier in this thread mentioned that this can't be done
> directly because of rules surrounding TPF's non-profit status.
That someone was me and that's not what I said. I said it isn't as simple
as Bob
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 18:45 -0500, Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:23 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. Allow people to choose where their money will go (if that's what they
> want to do)
Someone earlier in this thread mentioned that this can't be done
directly beca
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:23 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:25:42 Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
>
>
> I could take a month's sabbatical from my day job for $5000 without losing
> insurance coverage or other benefits. That's slightly more than Audrey's
> $100/da
> From: Geoffrey Broadwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:20 PM
>
> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 18:45 -0500, Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:23 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2. Allow people to choose where their money will go (if that'
On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:25:42 Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:23 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I could take a month's sabbatical from my day job for $5000 without losing
> insurance coverage or other benefits. That's slightly more than Audrey's
> $100/day,
On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:25:42 Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
> Here is something to consider. Unless we can afford to fund an individual
> full time with enough money for them to pay for their own health coverage
> and other benefits, the amount of time they are volunteering is already as
> much a
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Conrad Schneiker <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Here is something to cons
During the course of collecting material for the Perl 6 wiki
section on Perl 6 articles and presentations
(http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?perl_6_articles_and_presentat
ions),
I've repeatedly encountered remarks about how much Perl 6
development is constrained by the fairly severe tim
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