From: Jason Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This might be a cool thing to add to CPAN in the form of a Tip Jar.
People/Companies could donate money through there and CPAN could also
keep track of donations as a form of popularity. Authors could also
tithe or mark some percentage to donate to the Perl Foundation.
I had looked at doing this a few months ago as a Perl Grant, but the
hang up is the payment technology. Some of the bigger players (Amazon,
PayPal, Google Checkout) restrict who can sign up to receive money,
nationality-wise. Since the CPAN authorhood is a diverse group, we
couldn't get complete coverage.
- Jason
This sounds like a lovely idea. And those that do not want the
donations could redirect them to PF completely while still getting
the popularity tracking.
Looks like the list of countries is pretty long on PayPal, though I'm
not sure people from all those countries are allowed forward the
money to their bank accounts. But even if they can't do that they I
believe can accumulate that money in the PayPal account and use them
on the internet. Or send them to the author of a different module ;-)
So it should not be a big problem.
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, David Cantrell wrote:
IIRC Amazon have a donation thing. If you have an Amazon
wishlist,
point people at that too. About half the donations I get for
CPANdeps
are in the form of books and DVDs.
Why do you think I want others to know what do I want from Amazon? ;-
)
Jenda
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