On 08/26/2014 12:16 PM, sri wrote:
This is a bit off topic, but recently i've been thinking a bit about what
sustainable crowdfunding could mean for the future of open source and why
there's so little of it in the Perl community.
https://www.gittip.com/for/perl/
https://www.gittip.com/for/ruby/
https://www.gittip.com/for/python/
When you compare these 3 languages on Gittip there's not that much of a
difference in size, but in participation, any ideas why that might be? Is
it just companies being hesitant to invest in Perl, or are we just less
enthusiastic about the future?
Or we're all cheap bastards >.>
I think it's a case too of how things worked in the past, the Perl
community at large (as far as I can tell anyway, and I may be wrong) has
never been big on asking for donations, whereas the Ruby and Python
communities have done that more - I guess it's a matter of people being
used to the fact that a lot of projects on the "other" side of the fence
are readily capable of accepting donations - and sometimes prominently
point out they do.
Personally, if Mojolicious had the ability to donate through Paypal or
Patreon, I would - it's just that on the Mojolicious site there isn't
anything indicating that donations are accepted :)
Anyway, tl; dr: it's a difference in perception between the various
communities
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