Re: Future Perl development

--- demerphq <demerphqgmail.com> wrote:

> This seems like something that should be handled by the
donations to
> TPF (or some similar organization) by hiring a
professional to do it
> right.  Isnt this exactly why we have a donation fund?
So that we can
> pay to get the stuff that we arent good at done
properly by a
> professional?

Speaking from my experience running the TPF Grant Committee,
I can
promise you that while I do like this idea, I also know we
could
potentially expect howls of protest from folks.  Hell, I
can't tell you
how many times we've approved a very worthwhile grant only
for me to
get an email or see a posting from someone about what an
incredible
waste of money X is.[1]

Personally I'd love for someone to float a trial balloon in
front of
the Perl community about this idea.

Cheers,
Ovid

[1]  Actually, my favorite complaint is from people telling
me that if
we don't get enough done, we should just get more
volunteers.  That's
when my brain comes close to melting from trying to figure
out whether
I should laugh or choke them to death.

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On 2/28/07, Ovid <publiustemp-p5p3yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- demerphq <demerphqgmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This seems like something that should be handled
by the donations to
> > TPF (or some similar organization) by hiring a
professional to do it
> > right.  Isnt this exactly why we have a donation
fund? So that we can
> > pay to get the stuff that we arent good at done
properly by a
> > professional?
>
> Speaking from my experience running the TPF Grant
Committee, I can
> promise you that while I do like this idea, I also know
we could
> potentially expect howls of protest from folks.  Hell,
I can't tell you
> how many times we've approved a very worthwhile grant
only for me to
> get an email or see a posting from someone about what
an incredible
> waste of money X is.[1]

While you are probably right just on the grounds that there
is no
shortage of shortsighted people in the world, i have to
wonder how
many people really would object to using professional
fundrasing
organizations to do this, provided of course that a) the
finances were
transparent, and b) they were actually generating more money
than they
cost.

And note that I did say that TPF should support targetted
donations. I
think TPF would see a net increase if they improved the
visibility of
their finances and also provided targetted donations. Then
the only
grounds to complain would be if someone donated to PR for
Perl 5 and
found out that it was spent on something else.

> Personally I'd love for someone to float a trial
balloon in front of
> the Perl community about this idea.

Eventually ill post something to Perlmonks if you like.

> [1]  Actually, my favorite complaint is from people
telling me that if
> we don't get enough done, we should just get more
volunteers.  That's
> when my brain comes close to melting from trying to
figure out whether
> I should laugh or choke them to death.

Choke. Much more effective. 

yves

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