Reposted with permission of the author - Nathan Torkington
The Perl Foundation is more respectable name for the Yet Another Society to use when it gathers money for the Perl Development Grants. In 2002, YAS hopes to sponsor two people: Damian Conway, to continue his most excellent technical and ambassadorial work for Perl; and Dan Sugalski, to accelerate development of the Parrot and Perl 6 projects. http://www.perl-foundation.org/

"But," you say, "the economy's in the crapper! How will you ever raise that kind of money?" I'm glad you asked. There are two answers: you, and your company.

A huge number of individuals contributed to Damian's 2001 grant. I may be a softie, but I literally tear up when I think about how it shows the depth of community we have. We'll need individual support again for 2002. The economy is brutal right now, and I know some of you are out of work. The good news is that there's no lower limit to donation: if you can only give $10, that's $10 more than we had had before, and we're $10 closer to our ultimate goal. If you can give $100, or $1000, that's ten or a hundred unemployed people whose money we don't have to feel guilty for taking. :-)

I just gave $100, which I suspect will make my wife yell at me, and I wish I had more to give. Give what you can (and remember--it's tax deductible!). I just started a challenge of sorts, see use.perl.org for details, which I'd love you to participate in. Make me cry like Sylvia Plath at an onion farm. :-)
http://www.perl-foundation.org/

Many companies helped last year, Blackstar being the stand-out contributor. We need many more companies to help this year. "The Perl Foundation" is a name your manager can feel comfortable writing a check to, so let's take advantage of that. If your company uses and relies on Perl, and would like to give back in a tangible way, please approach your boss about contributing. Politicians toady up to corporate interests for the same reason we need you to talk to your boss about a donation--it's quicker and easier to get one place to give $5000 than to find fifty people willing and able to give $100.

Enough. Attached [well, above actually -blakem] is the press release about the Perl Foundation. Thanks for reading this far.

Nat

-Blake

In reply to Re (gnat) : PerlMonks, Mongers, Damian, and the Perl Foundation by blakem
in thread PerlMonks, Mongers, Damian, and the Perl Foundation by blakem

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