In my $life, I raise money from sponsors.
It is not difficult to spend money, once you have it.
It is not difficult to raise money, once you know how to spend it wisely.
What's difficult is putting the two together.
Some donors know what to contribute to - they choose specific projects
and
On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:25:42 Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:23 PM, chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I could take a month's sabbatical from my day job for $5000 without losing
insurance coverage or other benefits. That's slightly more than Audrey's
$100/day, I
Me too. $500. That's 3*500, so far.
Can I do this through the Perl Foundation as an earmark?
Conrad Schneiker wrote:
On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:25:42 Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:23 PM, chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I could take a month's sabbatical from my
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Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 1:24 AM
Whilst debating issues like parrot vs pugs, or single-track vs
parellel
track development, can be quite interesting, especially if it induces
Larry to compare straight lines to mountains and
From: Geoffrey Broadwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:20 PM
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 18:45 -0500, Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:23 PM, chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. Allow people to choose where their money will go (if that's what
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:03:03AM +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
No one likes bureacracy. But I feel much happier about handing over money,
or persuading someone else to hand over money, to a group of people with
established procedures and collective responsibility, than to some
OOOWWW my tail is burnt!!! But I wasnt on the committee... promise.
Sorry about the cat...
So lets get some money into this Foundation, so that, perhaps, Larry
might possibly, if he deserves, get a little more money.
Richard
Larry Wall wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:03:03AM +0300,
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So over the next few months, I'm planning to learn about
fundraising, and see what I can accomplish on behalf of Perl
6 development. To that end,
Hi everyone,
Guess it's time for me to finally join the discussion. :-) I've been paying
attention to this thread since it started.
Which made me think ... wasn't this why Mozilla created a corporation?
I believe one can find online write-ups from the people involved with the
decision to
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote:
Someone earlier in this thread mentioned that this can't be done
directly because of rules surrounding TPF's non-profit status. Someone
else pointed out the problems with TPF officers benefitting directly
from the donations, even though some of
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
I am mostly ignoring the rest of what others have said in this thread
because I think it is detracting from your intention of getting money to
people to work more. Here is one thing that has frustrated me about TPF.
They are a non-profit organization.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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That's what made me come to the conclusion that it's really The Parrot
Foundation.
It's not The Parrot Foundation. It's that NLNet gave a very large
targeted grant for Parrot. It's a single big donation that's driving
that.
I'm working
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's what made me come to the conclusion that it's really The Parrot
Foundation.
As brian mentioned, the NLNet grant is what's driving the Parrot work.
AFAIK, there haven't been any Parrot-related grants for a long time
besides that one and
I've seen that Daniel Ruoso applied for a grant for his smop project,
basically a virtual machine and fast backend for kp6, and perhaps other
implementations.
TPF decided not to invest into yet another implementation.
I appreciate that it is a subtle distinction to make, too subtle to
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