lenzo writes "The Perl Foundation has put up a real-time status page for the Perl Development Grant Fund. Now you can keep track of the progress of the grant, see your name enter the list, and see who the most recent and biggest contributors are.
Contributions are additive by name (including "Anonymous"), so making a second contribution can move someone up in rank and recency. There are planned additions of time-honored fund-raising thermometer graphics, and breakpoints between "levels" of contribution.
Also posted on the Perl Foundation:
Damian Conway reflects on
what has been accomplished under the first Perl Development Grant,
and Dan Sugalski sets out a
shingle."
I seem to remember last year that the funding was relatively cheap because it was being matched by Monash Uni were Damian worked. Is this happening again, at least for the Damian portion of the fund?
I would hate to think that the Perl community was not taking full opportunity to make use of Australian tax payer funds to develop Perl 6
Re:Monash Matching
darno on 2001-12-17T23:50:56
Don't think so. We had to make sure we had enough to cover Damian for the year so he could go on sabbatical or whatever. Blackstar actually put up half the amount.Check out the sponsors page for Damian last year.
Cheers.
Re:Monash Matching
ziggy on 2001-12-18T00:04:46
.... last year that the funding was relatively cheap because it was being matched by Monash Uni ..... Actually, quite the opposite. Damian is so cheap because he realized that if YAS could pay out his contract at Monash (A$90,000), then he could work on Perl all year long, basically offering him a research grant to work on our project, instead of teaching undergrads how to program in C++.
The reasons why picking up Damian's contract was so cheap were that (1) he likes living in Rural Australia (2) where there's a very favorable exchange rate WRT the US Dollar and the English Pound, and (3) some of his expenses were picked up through other work he did for Perl.
Re:Monash Matching
Damian on 2001-12-18T11:33:21
Actually, Monash did contribute very significantly this year, and will again next year.
They provided about half my hardware, all my software and technical support, administrative assistance, financial services, travel insurance, a private office, telephone, international postage, subsidized gym membership, world-wide internet access, and a cable modem at home. Considered at commercial rates that probably makes them about the third largest single contributor to my 2001 Year For Perl.
And they've already agreed to provide a similar amount of support in 2002 (provided we manage to raise the funds required to buy out my teaching contract again).
