Hello VMS Perl Folk, If you or your company uses Perl, please have a look at the message below and see about supporting its continued development. Both Nicholas and Dave are Perl internals wizards of the highest order, so we'd be lucky to have them paying even more attention to the care and feeding of Perl than they already do.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicholas Clark <n...@ccl4.org> Date: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 4:59 PM Subject: Perl 5 maint funding drive To: perl5-port...@perl.org As everyone is aware, Dave Mitchell has been paid for the past year or so to work on fixing hard and long standing bugs in the Perl 5 core, thanks to a generous grant of $50,000 booking.com made to TPF. That money is almost exhausted. Dave would be happy to continue, and I'm now in a position where I'd be able and willing to be paid to work on maintaining and bettering the Perl 5 core. Hence The Perl Foundation has launched a "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund", and a funding drive to raise an initial $25,000, to cover 3 months work. Better still, Vienna Perl Mongers will match the first $10,000 of donations, dollar for dollar, putting the surplus from YAPC::Europe 2007 to very good use. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund http://vienna.pm.org/10_000_dollar_for_the_perl5_core_maintaince_fund.html https://secure.donor.com/pf012/give <-- donate here <-- TPF are looking for both for individual and corporate donations. I'd hope that it particularly appeals to companies wishing to give something back to Perl, or wanting to raise their visibility in the Perl world, and to Perl developers. Much that I'd love to, I can't actually promise that donating will get you a better class of candidate when recruiting, but TPF is able to offer the following * donating $1000 or more gets your logo used, and a mention in the weekly report(s) you paid for * donate $10000 or more and TPF will issue a joint press release thanking you profusely and of course, while match funds last (so get in quick) * "Buy Dave, get me free". Or something like that :-) Nicholas Clark
