Yet Another Society's Greg McCarroll writes that YAS has a sponsor page set up where it can take donations to fund Damian Conway for a year, including new terms about refunds should the target not be met.

YAS also announced that the mystery corporate donor is Black Star, an online video and DVD retailer and major sponsor of YAPC::Europe which uses Perl heavily on its site, has pledged up to USD 27,5000 -- half the goal -- in matching funds. So every dollar you donate is counted twice.

More updates and information are being posted on use Perl.