Re: Funding the design team
Thanks to everybody for your patience and support. Here's where things currently stand wrt TPF and funding for Perl 6 related activities: * TPF is now active again. Special thanks to Nat Torkington for being so responsive when I conveyed the list's concerns to him. * An on-line survey of the Perl community will be made available in the very near future. It will be an opportunity for the whole community -- including those of us primarily concerned with Perl 6 -- to offer guidance to TPF as regards funding priorities. * A number of new grants will be announced soon. These will probably include one or more grants targeted at Perl 6 design and/or implementation. * TPF has been keeping a low profile over the last few months but has not been idle. Since last fall, they continued to fund Larry through the end of the year, helped with YAPC::Europe, are in the process of getting the next YAPC::America running, gave a small grant to Dan, and are currently looking at funding some Perl Monks site upgrades. * The issue of accepting donations targeted to a particular area (e.g. Perl 6) has been raised and is being discussed. Once again, as soon as that survey is available, I will inform the mailing list. Damian
Re: Funding the design team
David Storrs wrote: Folks, give us your address (or a PO box, or something), where we can send checks. The checks won't be tax deductible, but are we really doing this for the tax deduction? Sorry for the delay in replying. It isn't lack of appreciation; it's lack of tuits (I was a little busy getting Synopsis 6 written this week). The design team really *do* appreciate the support that this offer and others like it represent. It means a great deal to us that you believe in the work we are doing strongly enough to throw money. :-) We certainly *could* set up some alternate donation mechanism for the Perl 6 team, but we'd really rather work through TPF. That's what it's there for -- to remove the administrative load of handling donations, etc. The problem is that it doesn't seem to be doing its job just at the moment, either in terms of finding funding, or channeling it back to the appropriate people, or even listening to the community as to who the appropriate people are. But before we look at by-passing TPF, I'd like to take one more shot at bestirring them to action. If that fails to produce a useful result, then we will definitely look at finding another mechanism to funnel your generosity to those who can best make use of it to benefit Perl. Damian
Re: Funding the design team
--- Miko O'Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, David Storrs wrote: Folks, give us your address (or a PO box, or something), where we can send checks. The checks won't be tax deductible, but are we really doing this for the tax deduction? ... or a PayPal account. I've got $1.36 in my account ready to send to the development team. Sorry, the Electronic Frontier Foundation got the other $5 that was in that account this morning. This I can do. Gimme a paypal target. :) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
Funding the design team
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:32:39PM -0500, James Mastros wrote: On 03/14/2003 3:22 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: That means that TPF's perl development grant fund is fine to donate to, and if there's only enough cash for one grantee, and Larry's the best candidate, that's keen. Setting up a Fund Larry Wall fund is where things get much less easy. [it's not a problem if] there was both a perl development fund, and a perl6 development fund. Then people who wanted to see things like DBI and mod_perl get funded could give to the first, and people who wanted to see Larry, you (Dan), Damian, and the gang get funded (or, unfornatly, some subset thereof, depending on how Such a fund would be the ideal but, until it is set up, there is a very easy way to fund the design team: Folks, give us your address (or a PO box, or something), where we can send checks. The checks won't be tax deductible, but are we really doing this for the tax deduction? --Dks
Re: Funding the design team
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, David Storrs wrote: Folks, give us your address (or a PO box, or something), where we can send checks. The checks won't be tax deductible, but are we really doing this for the tax deduction? ... or a PayPal account. I've got $1.36 in my account ready to send to the development team. Sorry, the Electronic Frontier Foundation got the other $5 that was in that account this morning. -Miko Miko O'Sullivan Programmer Analyst Rescue Mission of Roanoke
Re: Funding the design team
David == David Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Such a fund would be the ideal but, until it is set up, there is a David very easy way to fund the design team: David Folks, give us your address (or a PO box, or something), where we can David send checks. The checks won't be tax deductible, but are we really David doing this for the tax deduction? I really don't see a need to donate to other than YAS. If you earmark your donation, I'm sure YAS will ensure that the money goes to your requested destination as much as is practically (and legally) possible. Stonehenge has been a major contributor to YAS. I don't see why we should start changing plans in midstream. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
