Perl 5 core maintenance fund drive

[Abigail]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 09:13:31AM +0100, Pedro Figueiredo wrote:
> Here's the email I sent to the powers that be at Playfish. I apologise
> to Nicholas for the shameless ripoff.
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A couple of years ago booking.com made a hugely generous $50000
> donation to The Perl Foundation, and that money was used to pay one of
> the core developers, Dave Mitchell, to work on Perl 5 improvements and
> bug fixes. That money is now running out, however, and TPF is
> launching another fund raising drive, to pay for 3 months of work by
> Dave and Nicholas Clark (long-standing Perl5 committer and member of
> the Perl 6 design team).
> 
> TPF are looking for both individual and corporate donations. I believe
> this would be a good opportunity for companies wishing to give
> something back to Perl, or wanting to raise their visibility in the
> Perl world, and to Perl developers.
> 
> As well as giving the company a lot of good will in Perl developers'
> minds, and a warm fuzzy feeling, The Perl Foundation is offering:
> 
> * 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, on their homepage
> 
> Furthermore, the Vienna Perl Mongers group have announced they will
> match the first $10k, with money from YAPC::EU 2007:
> 
> http://vienna.pm.org/10_000_dollars_for_the_perl5_core_maintenance_fund.html
> 
> Full details here: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund
> 
> and donations here: https://secure.donor.com/pf012/give


Note that 2 days after the announcement of the fund, both Booking.com
and cPanel donated $10,000, which makes for a total of $30,000 (with the
matching $10,000 from Vienna.pm), not counting any individual donations.



Abigail