Yet Another Society is attempting to organize a campaign to support Damian Conway and his family for a the year 2001 to work on just Perl. Modules, speaking engagements, and whatever else he can. Essentially, the Perl community, through YAS, would be "buying out" the good doctor's obligations at Monash University in Australia, along with raising money for travel and expenses.

The estimated cost of all this is USD 55,000. For more information, including email correspondence between Conway and Kevin Lenzo, check out http://www.yetanother.org/damian/.

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RE: Buy a Damian
by Blue (Hermit) on Oct 16, 2000 at 18:07 UTC
    Slashdot just had an article on this (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/15/1724258&mode=thread), and the one assuption going around was that USD 55,000 was too low. Damian should be paid more.

    I love that thinking. Let the Patrons of the Perl Arts roll forth.

    =Blue
    ...you might be eaten by a grue...