Matthew Wickline wrote: >Instead of limiting, why not provide the option for winners have some >cash value to be donated to YAS in lieu of their prize? If golfer BuB >wins every ora.com book in print, he could start asking ora to donate >money toward YAS fellowships.
Our sponsors are not *paying* for our prizes, they are using their own inventories. Donating cash would be a very different situation. Personally, I do not think that the repeat winners will be an issue in the near future. There are just too many excellent golfers... we have not yet found a Tiger-Woods-type Perl Golfer who consistently wins tournaments. >Sponsors might even encourage such behavior by offering to match all >such donations, or something like that... > >Good press for everyone involved... even for perl golf. While we are on this topic, I have been holding onto a similar idea, waiting to see how things develop with Perl Golf, but this post is very close to the idea and I want to share it with you: What do you think about a semi-annual Perl Golf tournament that would raise money for Yet Another Society's Perl Development Grant (possibly titled YAGG -- Yet Another Golf Game)? I have asked a few people and received mixed feedback, some people love the idea, some think it's too much too soon. I am thinking the first YAGG could be around August if people like the idea. My first thought was that in order to play in the tournament, golfers would have to make a minimum donation to the PDG ($5 or so). Then I thought that additional money could be raised by "selling tickets" to spectators ($20 or so minumum donation) who would then have full access to all the realtime PGAS data, with some new PGAS features like golfer-tracking-via-email and stuff like that. Then I thought of getting corporate sponsors who would match the donations or would pledge a certain amount per golfer entered or per stroke of the winning solution. To encourage donations over the minimum, the tiebreaker would be based on the amount donated. What do you think? Would we have enough golfers willing to pay-to-play? --Dave
