I'll be looking forward to an actual plan to implement this. The Perl community is great at coming up with all kinds of ideas, but it's actually piss-poor when it comes to turning ideas into actual services, and it has an even poorer record in maintaining them.

Since you bring up the idea, what are you going to do to implement this?

(Re)use the existing PerlMonks infrastructure to create an online Perl University where people pay small amounts for classes like the Oracle University with proceeds directed toward much-needed TPF projects.
Hmmm. TPF's problems aren't restricted to "shortage of money". I don't expect a flurry of output from TPF if there would be an influx of money (although I do expect some Perl trainers asking for a share of that money to further promote their busin^W^W"Perl"). TPF doesn't have a track record on actual spending money that's donated to them. Remember a few years ago when TPF got donated a large sum of money from Bookings? They sat on it for more than a year before they started spending it (Dave Mitchell's grant).

So, I would expect any plan that collects money to also include plans on actually getting the money spend.

In reply to Re: Perl(Monks) University by JavaFan
in thread Perl(Monks) University by InfiniteSilence

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