in reply to thoughts on funding for perl fundation

These programs are called "affinity" credit cards, and the issuers like them because they're supposed to bring in customers. The MBNA site explains affinity marketing, which is what this really is: getting the affinity organization to give out free advertising. They give you money, but only if you do all the work to bring in the customers. The idea that there is "no addditional cost to you" is a bit misleading.

I think the idea is interesting, and on my own I'm looking into the idea just because I'm curious how it works. It's unlikely that they'll think The Perl Review will be worthy. If anyone else is pursuing this for TPF, please let me know so one of us doesn't waste our time. I'll report what I find, but that requires talking to a person at the bank and them deciding I'm not a crank.

I think it would be interesting to partner with a card that actually uses Perl. I know MasterCard had some Perl stuff going on.

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by Qiang (Friar) on Jun 05, 2005 at 04:57 UTC
    followed the link from your post, the affinity program is..

    we developed a unique and powerful marketing proposition known as affinity marketing: selling to people with a strong common interest.

    the ground work is not that much as long as the card is in place(this will take some time to set it up with the bank, but we can do it since liinuxfund can do it). people whoever want to donate few bucks to the perl fundation can choose to use this credit card.

    I use credit card, and may as well use the one that supports my beloved perl development.

    I think We already got lots people willing to help and this program can easily take off. just let them know here is another way to support perl.

    but, after all, I see no one will lose from this.

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      The credit card companies don't do this because they are nice, so I'll see what we'd have to do on our side and what we'll get for it. We might, for instance, have to turn over a long list of people they can send mail to so they can market their services. The general inquiry form for MBNA already asks about that.

      Usually when you think that nobody can lose, you're about to walk into a trap. The trick is to be a bit paranoid and ask a lot of questions before you get hooked into something. :)

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        Usually when you think that nobody can lose, you're about to walk into a trap. The trick is to be a bit paranoid and ask a lot of questions before you get hooked into something. :)

        you are absolutely right. There are a lot of stuff need to be taken care of before this actually happens.

        are you in the perl fundation committe? will this idea be discussed/considered?

        oh, off-topic, your article "brian's guide to solving any perl program" has been translated to chinese months ago, it's here . It's especially useful for beginner programmers(not only perl programmer).

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