What started as an experiment to see whether people would steal our change soon turned into a profitable enterprise. Possible uses for the money include taxi fares, the cowl fund, my paycheck, or bandwidth.
jptxs suggested we set up an offering plate to accept Pay Pal contributions. There's a chance we could do that. If we're really clever and fill out enough paperwork maybe we could even make the contributions tax-deductible.
vroom | Tim Vroom | vroom@cs.hope.edu
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Warning: Humor approaching
Hmm, non-profit. Hmm, PM as a charitable organization. We donate, and it comes off our taxes. Hmmm.
User base demographics check:
32% - Well compensated highly technical people
41% - Students in highly technical fields
14% - English students
06% - Brillent young students who do not work up to potential
07% - Other
Sure, sounds like a perfect place to go non-profit. Look at all other earners & future earners.
Now the next step is the PerlMonks mutual fund, which uses 100% computer guided transactions on the stock market. We'll see things in the chatterbox like:
jcwren: You can now search the stats page by how many millions the monks made in the fund.
DiscoStu: Look at the new Make::Money::Fast module that I wrote all by myself, really!
Ovid: Hey I just finished the new forecasting.pm module.
AgentM: Can I get Bone::Easy on a ticker-tape at the bottom of the screen?
{grin}
All that aside, it would be cool to be able to contribute tax-deductable to PerlMonks. Paypal or other way to make "micro-payments" sounds like the way to go. Just don't do anything that links it to XP. {grin}
=Blue
...you might be eaten by a grue...
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I see it now: Donate all your wordly possesions to vroom
and set your Perl free!
And then of course, we'll get even more posts like
Parallels Between Perlmonks.ORG and Religious Cults.
On the serious side, I'd go for it. Anything to reduce
spending on goverment fat that I get to use is cool.
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