Perl Foundation Grant Fund Meter - revisited

jonasbn on 2003-07-02T10:32:30

Argh, I just saw the reports from the cron jobs taking care of the grant fund meter (visible at the Copenhagen Perl Mongers Website), and they reported a problem.

Apparently the fund drive status pages have changed and a percentage is no longer available. I have written a mail to the maintainer of the pages asking why.

I miss the idea of having a community goal when it comes to raising funds.

Good Point

Elian on 2003-07-02T13:24:44

So we shall have to see about setting goals again.

Re:Good Point

jonasbn on 2003-07-02T14:45:00
I have received a reponse from the maintainer and it looks as if a new fund drive will be launched shortly - this sounds promising.

Maybe I should look into using WWW::Mechanize for doing the scraping :)

SOAP?

nicholas on 2003-07-02T14:59:38

Maybe I should look into using WWW::Mechanize for doing the scraping

Or you could get them to create an XML version, or an RSS feed, or even a SOAP API. A SOAP API could be two way - not only could people write programs to find out the current status, but they could also write programs to make donations :-)