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For Sale: 1 Damian Conway, 1 Dan Sugalski

Posted by chrisd on from the here-comes-another-one dept.

Kurt writes "Yet Another Society, through its newly formed Perl Foundation, is launching yet another fund drive to help support the Perl community. This year we will be supporting Damian Conway and Dan Sugalski. Damian will continue to work on a variety of Perl 5 modules and the design of Perl 6. Dan will continue his work on the implementation of Perl 6. More details are available at the Perl Foundation web site. Contributions are tax deductible, so donate today!" Many people will remember when we did this last year. I think it's been a roaring success. So go donate!

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  1. These guys should contact O'Reilly ... by cygnusx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... with the money they make out of selling Perl books, they could easily fulfil a goodly part of the modest $55000 they talk about on this page. (Yes, I know 55k was the *2001* budget.)

    But dunno how much people will be willing to fork out to charity during tough times.. last year this time, things were much better.

    1. Re:These guys should contact O'Reilly ... by doom · · Score: 4, Insightful


      O'Reilly also keeps Larry Wall on staff, and just let
      him do whatever he wants.

      Lack of support for the perl community is not
      one of O'Reilly's problems.

  2. Shilling For Amazon... by ObligatoryUserName · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I hate to sound like an advertisement, but as a rule I'm probably 2-300% more likely to donate money if people use the uber-easy Amazon Honor system. I don't have to give anyone new my personal information, it all happens in a few quick clicks, and it doesn't have fits with my debit card like PayPal does (they require a 1 time refunded charge to verify the card since it isn't linked to a billing address like a credit card is - I know it's for my own good, but knowing that it would take a month to process always saps my will.)


    In this case I might go against my set ways, but if they'd set up an Honor System account I wouldn't be writing this note right now, I'd be donating!

    1. Re:Shilling For Amazon... by ObligatoryUserName · · Score: 4, Insightful

      85% of $20 is a heck of a lot more than 100% of $0.

      Especially because I hate to use credit cards/love to use my debit card, I like sharing the card number as few places as I can get by with. That 15% they lose is the cost of my piece of mind and the convenience of my donation. (Though, like I say, I'll probably make an exception in this case, but that doesn't mean I don't reserve my right to grumble about it.)