Perl 5 core maintenance fund drive

[GARLAND DUNCAN]

> 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.

How did you know that? This fund isn't listed on the Fund Drive Status page:

https://donate.perlfoundation.org/index.pl?node=Fund%20Drive%20Status

On 5 July 2011 09:28, Abigail <abigail at abigail.be> wrote:

> 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
>