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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
November 5, 2009 02:21
Subject:
Re: spending other people's money
Message ID:
20091105102056.GV77879@plum.flirble.org
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 11:03:57AM +0100, Richard Foley wrote:
> This was a damned good idea, to do something concrete for Perl.  Nearly 6 
> months later has anything happened with it?  Has TPF:
> 
> 1. approved the idea?
> 
> 2. allocated (freely donated) funds?
> 
> 3. created a procedure/team to handle the administration of this effort?

I don't know the answers to any of these.

I do know that I (no longer) have the time to get it started, nor to
organise it. I had spoken to some people privately about 6 months ago, and
I know that subsequently at least one I'd spoken with was aware that I no
longer had time and so wasn't able to carry it forward. A couple of others
have asked since, and I have said that I wasn't able to carry it forward.

I made no application to TPF for funds to run this, because I hadn't got
very far before I ran out of time, certainly not enough to need money.

I would be very happy for anyone else to take the idea and run with it
(I had hoped that that was obvious from the start). Perl shouldn't stall
just because I run out of time.

Nicholas Clark

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