Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-02-22 Thread Richard Hainsworth
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

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-02-22 Thread moritz
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 railroads, it is likely to be more useful to have suggestions like chromatic's - 1month of dedicated

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-02-22 Thread Dave Rolsky
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

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-02-22 Thread Dave Rolsky
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