Vienna.pm have announced $10,000 (USD) of “match funding” for the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund announced this week. For every $1 of funding found they will contribute $1 to a maximum of $10,000, which will leave just 20% of the remaining initial round of funding to be achieved.
The initial funding round will be used to continue funding Dave Mitchell’s work and to fund new work on the core by Nicholas Clark.
The Perl Foundation is looking for companies and individuals to donate to its Perl 5 Core Maintenance fund.
The Perl Foundation has provided a series of grants targeted at improving the Perl 5 core. The original funding as provided by Booking.com is now almost depleted, but The Perl Foundation is committed to raising new funding to help continue and expand this important venture. We are hoping to further fund Dave Mitchell’s work and to fund new work on the core by Nicholas Clark.
Larger sponsors will receive specific mention of their contribution to this fund on the Sponsor’s page under the fund’s section, donations of $1,000 dollars or more will result in the sponsor’s logo being used and the organisation (of choice) being credited on a weekly report. Please visit the page on the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund for more details and how to submit a contribution.
The 6th edition of the “Learning Perl”, popularly known as “the Llama”, book is now available. This sixth edition includes recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.14 as well as a major overhaul for Unicode.
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